I am a landscape architect with the Christchurch City Council in Christchurch, New Zealand, and contract lecturer at Lincoln University. I specialise in ecological restoration and landscape planning based on the emerging discipline of landscape ecology.

Other than my role as a landscape architect, my main area of research is the sustainable conservation and management of wildlife in tropical timber plantations. My recently completed PhD research has seen me travelling to Sarawak, East Malaysia (on Borneo Island) once or twice a year since 2005, and in March this year I will be relocating to Kuching, Sarawak with my family for nine months where I am planning to continue with this work.

This blog (blogging being the first sign of madness) aims to keep folks back home up to date with what I'm getting up to on Borneo over the following months. More importantly it will be used to disseminate preliminary research findings, and as a tool for discussion on the research, and I invite anyone with an interest in the biodiversity of Borneo's forests to contribute.