About me.

My passion championing climate action and protection of our wild places comes from expeditions in the remote corners of the South Pacific. I am focused on ocean carbon removal research but have a strong interest in regenerative agriculture and economics.

I am a University of Canterbury Honours Alumni and a Provost Scholarship Recipient to the University of California Davis where I studied Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology. My PhD investigated seaweed as a natural climate solution at The Blue Carbon Lab. I am now a visiting fellow at Oxford University in the Earth Sciences department.

Historically I have had roles as the co-founder of not-for-profit charity Let Them Fish, founder of The Seaweed Solution, Both Sides Now Podcast Co-host, Bomb Bucha CEO and contributor to the genesis of Live Ocean. I am currently the founder of Climate Action Company and co-founder of Ocean Balance.

My home is Lake Hāwea Station; my family farm which is pioneering regenerative agriculture and was the first certified carbon-zero farm in Australasia. Above all my heart belongs to the most remote valleys of Te Waipounamu and reefs of the pacific.

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