page_title: Catherine Ball
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context_page_description: Dr Catherine Ball is a businesswoman with a focus on environmental science and technology. Ball is currently operating a number of start-up companies and is an advisor to many start-ups. She is an Associate Professor at The Australian National University and Honorary Associate Professor at the 3AI Institute.
  Ball was named the 2015 Telstra Queensland Business Woman of the Year award for this line of innovative work in a corporate paradigm. Ball is a board director for Aviation Australia; and is on the international advisory board for the Ocean Impact Organisation, a not-for-profit ecosystem for businesses working towards a healthier ocean.
  Ball has worked with drone technology, and her team operated a drone that could fly hundreds of kilometres. They flew it off the west coast of Australia to study and track turtle habitats. During this 'voyage' they found endangered animals that had not been seen for years.
context_section_description: Dr Catherine Ball is a businesswoman with a focus on environmental science and technology. Ball is currently operating a number of start-up companies and is an advisor to many start-ups. She is an Associate Professor at The Australian National University (in the Practice of Engineering within the new Research School of Aerospace, Mechanical, and Environmental Engineering) and Honorary Associate Professor at the 3AI Institute.
  Ball was named the 2015 Telstra Queensland Business Woman of the Year award for this line of innovative work in a corporate paradigm. Ball is a board director for Aviation Australia; and is on the international advisory board for the Ocean Impact Organisation, a not-for-profit ecosystem for businesses working towards a healthier ocean.  
  Ball has worked with drone technology, and her team operated a drone that could fly hundreds of kilometres. They flew it off the west coast of Australia to study and track turtle habitats. During this 'voyage' they found endangered animals that had not been seen for years.   
  Working globally across a wide range of projects from creating documentaries and world leading conferences and events, to advising on the use of novel approaches (e.g. drones) across environmental and humanitarian projects, Ball is a proponent of community engagement with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), and likes to demystify emerging tech. Ball identifies as a representative of women in STEM. She is the 2020 Patron for the Tech Girls Movement aka 'Tech Girls are Superheroes', a #SheFlies ambassador for Girl Geek Academy, and a mentor and advisor to the CEO of New York based Women Who Drone, as well as a mentor to the #SuperstarsofSTEM project by Science and Technology Australia.
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