About
I am a marine biologist with over 15 years’ experience of coastal and marine ecological survey and research including boat-based marine mammal, fisheries and passive acoustic survey, SCUBA and snorkel surveys of temperate coastal habitats (mainly seagrass) as well as tropical coral reef surveys (Caribbean and Indo-Pacific). My interests include seagrass ecology, benthic invertebrate and fish ID, acoustic monitoring of cetaceans, BRUVs, marine conservation, monitoring and management in of the coastal seascape for conservation and restoration. My PhD looked at environmental drivers of change in seagrass meadows mainly in the UK but also in seagrass meadows in Brazil. More recently I have been working on habitat suitability modelling (HSM) in collaboration with Project Seagrass for Sky Ocean Rescue and WWF, Natural England and now as part of the SMMR ReSOW project using HSM for aiding decision making for seagrass restoration sites.