Natasha is a Senior Research Assistant at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation (CMLR). She is currently working on a project with the School of the Environment mapping environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks to Australia’s mining sector. 

Natasha has undertaken a variety of research in remote sensing, ecology and mine rehabilitation, in collaboration with many different organisations and mining industry partners. She is particularly interested in working with spatial vegetation data.

Natasha has a Bachelor of Environmental Science and completed her Honours (Class I) research with the University of the Sunshine Coast in 2020, which focused on the early establishment of native framework species in the rehabilitation of the Hey Point Bauxite Mine (Weipa).