CGO Ecology has a new employee, Sarah Atkinson, who has joined us an an Ecologist on a short-term contract to work on the A338 Spur Road reptile translocation. Sarah graduated from Plymouth University in 2008 with a BSc (Hons) in Wildlife Conservation.

She spent a year's placement working with the National Trust's Purbeck Estate as an Assistant Ecologist, resulting in a Certificate of Industrial Experience at distinction level. She researched her dissertation on sand lizards and the effects of visitor pressure at Studland. She has also worked on a short-term contract with Footprint Ecology in Dorset.