Shawn is researching ways to better assess changes in the state of global biodiversity. His goal is to develop new methods of applying sampled approaches to biodiversity indices to improve their accuracy, efficiency and scope. Shawn has a Masters in biological oceanography from the University of Kiel, Germany, where he studied the distribution and ecology of midwater fish larvae in the northeast Atlantic. He also holds a BSc in biology from Simon Fraser University, located on the beautiful west coast of Canada, near his hometown of Vancouver. He developed an interest in biodiversity conservation after he spent time in southeast Asia and saw first hand the effects of rampant environmental destruction. When he heard about the Inspire4Nature project he jumped at the chance to get involved.
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