Experience — Rinaldi Gotama

Research Experience

2022 - 2025

Senior Marine Biologist & Data Analyst

Indo Ocean Project (website)

Nusa Penida MPA, Bali

Tanjung Bira, South Sulawesi

Raja Ampat, Southwest Papua

Coral identification dive

Coral identification dive

Teaching fish identification

Teaching fish identification

Teaching kindergarteners in Bira

Teaching kindergarteners in Bira

All smiles before going diving!

All smiles before going diving!

2019 - 2022

Research Assistant

Mangrove Ecology Lab, Chinese University of Hong Kong

PI: Prof. Joe Shing Yip Lee (lab website)

Watch the project video summary here (English) or here (Cantonese).

3D scanning a mangrove tree

3D scanning a mangrove tree

Using the XBOX Kinect to scan a mangrove structure

Using the XBOX Kinect to scan a mangrove structure

The resulting 3D mesh model

The resulting 3D mesh model

Loading the 3D printed mangrove into a mesocosm

Loading the 3D printed mangrove into a mesocosm

Filling in the water and adding fishes

Filling in the water and adding fishes

Predation experiment underway!

Predation experiment underway!

The team with the extended MarineGEO network

The team with the extended MarineGEO network

Setting up my herbivory experiment

Setting up my herbivory experiment

Getting ready for a cold dive in the winter

Getting ready for a cold dive in the winter

Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)

Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)

An ARMS plate covered with sessile invertebrates

An ARMS plate covered with sessile invertebrates

A terebellid worm collected from an ARMS

A terebellid worm collected from an ARMS

2017 - 2019

Research Assistant

MarineGEO-Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong

PI: Prof. Bayden D. Russell (lab website | project website)

Education & Certification

2025 onward

The University of Queensland, School of the Environment

Graduate Student, Marine Spatial Ecology Laboratory

PI: Prof. Peter Mumby (lab website)

2022

SSI Divemaster & Emergency First Responder (CPR, AED, First Aid)

700+ dives in Indonesia, Hong Kong, and The Philippines

Additional specialization in Enriched Air Nitrox, Deep Diving, Marine Ecology, Shark Ecology, Manta & Ray Ecology, Sea Turtle Ecology

2017

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

BSc in Biological Science, First Class Honors