When I arrived to Australia I lived close to a CSIRO lab. Upon learning more about what they did, it became my dream to work there. For the final project of my masters, I had to work with an industry partner. But CSIRO wasn’t on the cards. So I begged a few people to form a partnership. After all, they were a few blocks from us! It eventually happened and I joined them. My final project involved creating a novel invasive species management algorithm for the Healthy Country AI platform. Healthy Country AI is a partnership between CSIRO, Microsoft and indigenous traditional owners in Australia developing technology that is culturally responsible and helps indigenous rangers care for Country. After this project I joined CSIRO as an actual employee, an absolute dream. We developed a digital literacy skills training course for indigenous rangers, and kept developing technology for the Healthy Country AI project. I also participated in the Spaces Cows project, an ambitious project to help manage feral herds leveraging machine learning and low-earth orbit satellites. That project involved some very non-traditional work and required me to travel to the Australian outback, chasing feral cows in helicopters and quads. We stayed with traditional owners who shared stories from the place passed down through generations. That project was covered by The Guardian. [**Indigenous rangers to use "SpaceCows" program to protect sacred sites and rock art from feral herds**](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/15/indigenous-rangers-to-use-spacecows-program-to-protect-sacred-sites-and-rock-art-from-feral-herds) - _The Guardian_ ![[Pasted image 20231004175208.png]] ![[Pasted image 20231004175222.png]] With them, I also developed Stories from the Waterholes, a project that gave voice to nature by taking data and environmental accounts and turning them into stories told from the perspective of the ecosystem.