• Designed and conducted research and development projects in oceanography, and environmental sciences, involving quantitative statistical data analysis.• Collaborated on research on global climate change, marine pollution, ocean dynamics, and ecosystems, with significant emphasis on data collection, processing and statistical analyses involving advanced inferential statistics.• Designed and conducted research work in risk and vulnerability assessments in relation to climate change effects, i.e., sea level rise, ocean warming, coral bleaching, and depletion of fish stocks, involving quantitative data analyses, and spatial data mapping using GIS applications.• Designed surveys and questionnaires for socio-economic research and involved in team-based research surveys involving focus group discussions, and interviews.• Led research in collaboration with the Institute of Marine Research (Norway) and FAO (UN) under the EAF-Nansen Program, and conducted quantitative analyses, and involving in national and international policy decision-making on pollution and climate change impacts.• Developing and using quantitative methods and statistical tools to assess natural resources in order to support financial, economic and policy decision-making in Sri Lanka on coastal and marine resources.• Planed, organized, and managed daily project tasks, and promoted continuous improvement of skills, especially in research designing and data analysis, involving project management knowledge.• Mentored and supervised research students and junior staff in completing their projects.• Collaborated with scientists, academics, technical and non-technical stakeholders on national and foreign-funded projects, project proposal formulation, research project management, dissemination of research knowledge, and policy decision-making.• Contributed to organizational strategic planning to achieve short-term and long-term objectives.