René Swift is a research assistant within the Sound & Movement Tag Lab and part time PhD student. René has an honours degree in Zoology, a Masters degree in Oceanography, and 20 years of field experience. René could be called a “jack of all trades and a master of none”; he has broad research interests in sensory & foraging ecology, the impact of anthropogenic noise in the oceans, and the development and application of high resolution biologging systems. Within in the Sound & MovementTag Lab René is involved in Dtag development, construction, testing & calibration; he is also involved in writing and testing software tools for processing, analysing & visualising tag data. René is happiest in the field or in the lab creating things with his hands. René Swift