- Speaker Highlights:
- Freshwater ecologist with extensive academic and consultancy experience in freshwater ecology, biodiversity monitoring, sustainability, environmental DNA.
- Joined Nature Metrics extractives team to deliver the best possible biodiversity data assisting all stages of the project life cycle(2022).
- Senior Research Associate at the School of Biological Sciences in the University of East Anglia (2020-2022)
- PHD from the Imperial College, London (2013-1016)
- Master of Science from the University of Portsmouth (2013).
- • Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Environmental Biology from the University of Leeds(2007-2011)
Joe Huddart, PHD
Huddart, is a freshwater ecologist with extensive academic and consultancy experience in freshwater ecology, biodiversity monitoring, sustainability, and environmental DNA. Joe joined Nature Metrics, which has commercialized the use of eDNA tools to assess and monitor ecosystems all over the world. He works in the extractives team to deliver the best possible biodiversity data assisting all stages of the project life cycle.Prior to joining Nature Metrics he was a Senior Research Associate at the School of Biological Sciences in the University of East Anglia. His post doctorate was spent assessing Colombia’s mega-biodiverse freshwater ecosystems. Joe recently switched from relying on traditional survey approaches to assess biodiversity to detecting species from the genetic material they leave behind in the environment or environmental DNA (eDNA). This tool provides a quantitative snapshot of present ecosystem biodiversity that is sensitive, rapid, thorough and non-invasive. Joe has a PHD from Imperial College, London focused on using food webs and standardised biodiversity monitoring to quantify ecological responses to river habitat restoration. He has a Master of Science from the University of Portsmouth and a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Environmental Biology from the University of Leeds in the UK.