Callum Duffield

I have always been fascinated by the natural world and loved seeking answers. This led me to work with multiple organisations across the globe, each focusing on different animals, such as sharks in the Bahamas, marine mammals in Turkey, great apes at the Chicago Zoo, freshwater fish in Trinidad, and rockpool prawns and freshwater fish in the UK. Through each project, I have worked on a variety of questions ranging from habitat use, spatial movements, predatory behaviours, and drivers of innovation.

I joined OSC in 2021 as a Data Analyst while completing my PhD in Ecology at the University of Liverpool. It was during my PhD that I realized that writing code to clean, manipulate, and analyse data was an aspect I really loved about science. From this, I started teaching undergraduate and masters students coding and analysis techniques common to biological studies.

As a Data Analyst at OSC, I have access to a wide range of data types, which has given me the opportunity to really delve into a whole host of exciting and cutting-edge topics. I am also currently contributing to supervision of student projects dealing with automatic image analysis of underwater video footage and analysis of C/T-POD data for harbour porpoise studies.

When not at work, I love outdoor activities, particularly kayaking. I also enjoy going on walks and looking for fungi. While doing my MSc in Cornwall I also found a love of snorkelling and now, living in Scotland, I take every opportunity to visit all that the Scottish coasts have to offer.