Caitlin Creak

Sometime this summer, Caitlin Creak will be tacking tiny tracking systems slightly larger than a rice grain to the heads of eight male Sydney Funnel-web spiders Atrax robustus to see where they wander at night. “Because this is a dangerous species, I do gas them first,” Ms Creak, a PhD candidate in UNSW Science’s School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, says.