Evin Mcgovern Email & Phone Number

With the Irish Marine Institute since 1993 and headed the Marine Chemistry Group since 2001. In this group we develop and implement national Marine Environment Monitoring and Assessment programmes (e.g. to comply with Water Framework Directive and OSPAR Convention) and also seafood safety surveillance programmes (for example monitoring farmed fish in accordance with the EU Residues Directive). We also provide technical and scientific advice to a many government departments and agencies on a range of issues pertaining to marine environmental protection and seafood safety. My research interests relate to chemical oceanography/ocean acidification, seafood safety, and marine pollution and its effects and we collaborate with many Irish and international research institutes and universities.Some Key Committees and Expert GroupsInternational Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES www.ices.dk ). Various committees including • Chair of Marine Chemistry Working Group 2007 – 2010 http://www.ices.dk/workinggroups/ViewWorkingGroup.aspx?ID=20• Co-Chair of OSPAR ICES Study Group on Ocean Acidification 2012 -2014 http://www.ices.dk/workinggroups/ViewWorkingGroup.aspx?ID=642OSPAR Convention for the protection of the North East Atlantic(www.ospar.org ): • National delegate to various expert committees under OSPAR convention • Irish lead for the delivery of the OSPAR Quality Status Report 2010 for the North East Atlantic (http://qsr2010.ospar.org/en/index.html )• Co-convenor for the Intersessional Correspondence Group on Ocean Acidification (ICGOA)) 2018-2023Marine Strategy Framework Directive technical coordination group... plus many national and European task groups and committees related to assessment of the marine environmental qualityChemical Safety SubCommittee FSAI & other food safety related expert groups Specialties: Marine Environmental Assessment, Marine Chemistry, Seafood safety, Marine pollution, Chemical oceanography, Ocean Acidification, Water Framework Directive, Marine Strategy Framework Directive