Louise Williams

Louise is a PhD student at the University of Newcastle studying the diet, low tide habitat use, and impact of fox predation on threatened shorebirds in our local estuaries. Louise studied an honours degree in Biodiversity and Conservation before undertaking a secondary science teaching degree which saw her take up teaching positions in remote western NSW and in an academically-selective high school. Whilst working full time as a Science Teacher she pursued her life-long love of birds by studying a Graduate Diploma of Ornithology. Naturally, the next step in her pursuit to become an ornithologist was to commence a PhD on birds. Louise also holds an A Class Bird Banding Authority and regularly assists with local bird banding projects.