masterplanning for designed and historic landscapes in Falkirk Area to leverage development funding.

Manage Local Coastal Partnership

Local Coastal Partnership

The SSMEI is a Scottish Government-led project, funded by the Scottish Government (Marine Management Directorate), SNH, Leader+ and the relevant local authorities. Berwickshire is one of four pilot sites trialling new methods of marine/coastal community and stakeholder based management. I have responsibility for driving this novel project in Berwickshire, and the post involves managing community-based projects on fisheries, tourism development/visitor management and integrated harbour management. I am responsible for budgetary control and reporting. With partners, have set up a local dive tourism association, the first in Europe; grant aided implementation of their marketing plan with project funds; assisted a local harbour trust with business plan; currently aiding them in improving income, and funded installation of quayside derricks; working with fishery partners to improve the sustainability of the local prawn fishery by introducing and funding new fishing practices. Prepared visitor management plan and currently implementing its recommendations; prepared socio-economic review of the benefits of a high quality marine environment as a baseline for future work (both available at www.scotborders.gov.uk/ssmei); prepared consultants' brief to carry out socio-economic research on local fishery. Gave expert written and oral evidence to the Scottish Executive enquiry into the marine environment, January 2007; responded to EU consultations on aquaculture and the European Fishery Fund.Resolved conflicts between marine stakeholders e.g. dive businesses, harbours, members of the community.

Wrote three chapters for the 'Aquaculture Compendium' published by CAB International.Reviewed grant proposals for the Norwegian Research Council and PERA Innovation Ltd.

Research into halibut, cod and haddock aquaculture and ecology; crustacean biology.

Research work on nutrition, physiology, behaviour, population dynamics, evolutionary biology, microbiology, sensory biology and developmental biology of cod, halibut, haddock and crustacean prey.Presentations given at national and international workshops and conferences.Co-operation with other research institutions; student supervision & lecturing.Successful grant proposal writing: ca. £250k of grants for technical aspects of marine fish farming raised in this post.Company liquidated and made redundant in May 2005.

Research into halibut, cod and haddock aquaculture

Staff member on undergraduate expedition to Bolivian montane forests to survey bird populations.

Research into behaviour, physiology and ecology of Arctic charr.

Researcher on large EU project on Arctic charr aquaculture and biology; my contribution was investigating physiology, behaviour, egg development and growth.Led a team of two research assistants.

PhD on 'Metabolic rate, territoriality and life-history strategies in juvenile Atlantic salmon'Studied how individual variation in physiology influenced behaviour and growth; resulted in five publications.

studying populations, chemical ecology & reproductive behaviour of the Scottish biting midge.

Research into Ecology and Physiology of the biting midge, Culicoides impunctatus.

Bird surveys of Tanzanian coastal forests