Caroline Schweder-Goad

Caroline teaches a range of subjects including marine mammals, aquaculture, marine tourism, fisheries management, marine reporting (projects) and GIS (Geographic Information Systems).

After completing two bachelor’s degrees and a teaching diploma, she spent three years teaching science, biology and Spanish at a secondary school. She then started working as an outdoor instructor at the Outdoor Pursuits Centre in Tongariro National Park before heading to Scotland to complete a master’s in marine and fisheries science.

Her research focussed on creating models for the distribution of whales and dolphins around the west coast of Scotland, which she presented in 2004 at a conference in Sweden.

Her interests range from marine mammals to fisheries and general marine conservation in different locations around the world while also pursuing and exploring the great outdoors, snowboarding, kiting, surfing, climbing.