Jessie’s research interests lie at the intersection of forest and wildlife ecology, particularly on understanding and predicting how ecological communities and species respond to environmental change. A key part of her work involves designing and deploying effective long-term monitoring networks and using these data to explore species distributions, interactions and habitat selection. While another aspect of her research focuses on developing novel statistical methods to extract meaningful ecological signals from complex datasets over space and time. Driven by these interests, Jessie has led large-scale wildlife monitoring projects across Tasmania and Victoria, studied the impacts of fire on cultural sites in GunaiKurnai Country (East Gippsland), and co-developed the Mega-Efficient Wildlife Image Classifier (MEWC) using deep learning and AI.