Kathryn Ross

Kathryn joined Toi Ohomai in January 2019 and teaches on the Graduate Diploma in Resource Management course.

She completed a doctorate with a research focus on predictive modeling and management of intertidal habitats for shorebirds which helped to hone her skills and passion for wildlife monitoring and statistics.

After a short stint of working in ecological consulting, she got a ‘dream job’ at the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) designing surveys and analysing and reporting data from national bird monitoring surveys, with an awesome team of people.

This job enabled Kathryn to get involved with a lot of bird banding field work, working with like-minded ‘bird nerds’. She also got involved in education and outreach projects at local schools, which really sparked her passion for teaching. 

When she moved to New Zealand in 2017, Kathryn completed a teacher training course and worked for a year as a high school science teacher before moving into her current role at Toi Ohomai.