Christopher Haimes Email & Phone Number

Lancaster, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for overseeing and supervising the safe use of sites, including parks, playing fields, recreation grounds, promenade and coastal areas within the City of Lancaster, as well as ensuring the security and appropriate maintenance of grounds and facilities. • Enhanced accessibility, use and value of the city’s greenspaces through work on horticultural projects, community gardens, organising and leading educational and volunteer sessions. • Grounds maintenance; established in safe use of a variety of machinery and hand tools; applying the correct tools for the task at hand. Both lone-working and as a key team-member.• Conservation work; introduced several measures and projects to enhance biodiversity in the parks, creating habitats such as a woodland bird-feeding station, a hibernaculum and wildflower meadows.

St. Abb'S Head National Nature Reserve, St Abb'S, Berwickshire

Full time, seasonal role involving reserve management and interaction with stakeholders and other conservation charities.• Ecological monitoring and research; full responsibility for ongoing productivity monitoring for breeding population Guillemot including production of an internally published scientific report. • Nature Interpretation; organisation of community events, school enrichment programme and visitor engagement.• Practical Conservation; leading volunteer sessions for practical work, producing risk assessments and learning new land management techniques to maintain protected grasslands and other habitat.

Dalkeith, Edinburgh

Practical reserve management across the Lothians, shadowing an experience area ranger to maintain a range of habitat types, including several priority habitats and species for Scotland.• Experience in use and maintenance of machinery, working to high standards of Health and Safety • Passed an assessment in LANTRA Brushcutters and Strimmers Level 1.• Developing new identification and surveying skills, applying theory from my Environmental Science degree.• Further skills developed in practical techniques including fencing, repairs to outdoor furniture, footpath maintenance.

Master'S Degree, Ecology

Through this Masters degree, I have further developed a wide range of technical skills and built upon my extensive knowledge of UK.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Environmental Science, 2.1

Activities and Societies: Conservation SocietyFocused upon biological organisms, our physical environment, and the interactions between.