Nikki Biskis is a PhD candidate at the University of Sunshine Coast, working with Dr Kathy Townsend and Dr Bonnie Holmes of UniSC and Dr Barbara Wueringer of Sharks And Rays Australia.
Her work involves consolidating field work in the remote river systems of Cape York and the east coast of Queensland with citizen science and historical ecology to enable species distribution modelling.
Nikki received her bachelor’s in biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University and her master’s in medical sciences at Boston University School of Medicine.
Before moving to Australia, she shared her time between working as the assistant director of a Californian high school and volunteering in the curation department of the palaeontology lab at San Diego Natural History Museum.
Sharks And Rays Australia, the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and eight Indigenous Land and Sea Ranger groups collaborated on and eight years study (2015-2022) to gather the data necessary to build contemporary risk maps in Queensland.
ABC News. 2019. Photograph: Ben Fisher. Sharks and Rays Australia