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Tom is exploring how and where mining, directly and indirectly, impacts biodiversity at spatial scales extending beyond individual mines amid growing mineral demand and the drivers of this demand. His research aims to evaluate potential place-, actor- and supply chain-based interventions and conservation planning strategies to minimise resultant biodiversity loss while also optimising human development and mineral supply goals.

Before pursuing graduate studies, Tom worked as a field researcher on a macaw nesting ecology and geophagy study in the Peruvian Amazon, a bush regenerator with an ecological restoration consultancy in Sydney, and a secretary/research assistant in NSW Parliament. Prior to his PhD, he worked as a research assistant with Dr Laura Sonter exploring relationships between biodiversity, deforestation and mining in the Brazilian Amazon, identifying risks of mining to mammal species globally, and with Professor Jonathan Rhodes on ecosystem service supply and demand flows.