I provide technical advice on biodiversity management, particularly application of and compliance with IFC PS6 for projects receiving financing. Focus on Asia-Pacific.

Supporting the New Manila International Airport development. Providing in house biodiversity advice on International Finance Corporation Performance Standard 6 compliance. Developing compensatory habitat offsets for migratory shorebirds.

Working under the Saving Antarctica's Environmental Future (SAEF) programme I provided field supervision for two PhD and one Masters student, and completed a whole-island survey of invasive plants.

Researching the conservation ecology of burrowing petrels (seabirds) on Macquarie Island, Australia following the largest successful invasive species eradication programme to date.The island is home to several threatened sea bird species that have historically been impacted by cats, rats and rabbits. My research utilises existing long-term datasets as well as collecting new field data to track changes in the presence, distribution and abundance of burrow-nesting seabirds, to assess how… Show more Researching the conservation ecology of burrowing petrels (seabirds) on Macquarie Island, Australia following the largest successful invasive species eradication programme to date.The island is home to several threatened sea bird species that have historically been impacted by cats, rats and rabbits. My research utilises existing long-term datasets as well as collecting new field data to track changes in the presence, distribution and abundance of burrow-nesting seabirds, to assess how this seabird community has responded to the eradication of feral vertebrates and their role in the broader ecosystem recovery after decades of feral animal impacts. This research is part of a lager project aimed at the development of an optimal long term monitoring strategy for key threatened species on the island and the island ecosystem as a whole. I am investigating the conservation return on investment of the eradication to inform decision-making strategies around threatened species monitoring and conservation. Show less

Lead biodiversity support for Alufer Mining Ltd’s Bel Air bauxite mine in Guinea. Providing advice on delivering No Net Loss of biodiversity in Critical and Natural Habitat (defined under the International Financial Corporation’s Performance Standard 6).

• Oyu Tolgoi, Rio Tinto, Mongolia 2012-2016. Project lead for TBC’s largest contract. Designing and facilitating implementation of project mitigation and offsets in Critical Habitat; lender liaison with a consortium of lending agencies; writing/updating lender compliant ESIA documents; capacity building with the project environment team; regular country visits.• TOTAL, Papua New Guinea 2015. Screening biodiversity risks associated with a Liquid Natural Gas operation, and advising on… Show more • Oyu Tolgoi, Rio Tinto, Mongolia 2012-2016. Project lead for TBC’s largest contract. Designing and facilitating implementation of project mitigation and offsets in Critical Habitat; lender liaison with a consortium of lending agencies; writing/updating lender compliant ESIA documents; capacity building with the project environment team; regular country visits.• TOTAL, Papua New Guinea 2015. Screening biodiversity risks associated with a Liquid Natural Gas operation, and advising on wildlife mitigation and baseline survey design.• Newmont Golden Ridge Ltd, Ghana 2015. Supporting offset design for impacts on Critical Habitat.• BG Group, UK 2013. Leading implementation of a corporate-wide review of biodiversity management practices. Completed interviews with senior central and asset staff, and worked in-house with BG’s environment team to complete and disseminate the review. Show less

• Identifying a tropical Pacific network of marine IBAs, taking a technical lead on managing seabird population data for the region in a World Bird Database and compiling BirdLife input into the World Seabird Union’s global colony register. • Developing regionally appropriate methods for delineating marine sites using GIS and applying global IBA criteria. • Supporting staff in national conservation NGOs to identify, promote, and protect marine IBAs. • Developing monitoring… Show more • Identifying a tropical Pacific network of marine IBAs, taking a technical lead on managing seabird population data for the region in a World Bird Database and compiling BirdLife input into the World Seabird Union’s global colony register. • Developing regionally appropriate methods for delineating marine sites using GIS and applying global IBA criteria. • Supporting staff in national conservation NGOs to identify, promote, and protect marine IBAs. • Developing monitoring guidelines for seabirds in the region and a Species Action Plan for the Critically Endangered Beck’s Petrel.• Planning, co-ordinating and running surveys for threatened seabirds in priority research areas.• Advancing the protection of marine IBAs in marine protected areas by engaging in national and international policy processes under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Ramsar Convention.• Successfully fundraising for seabird conservation with The Marisla Foundation, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund, the Mohammed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, the Audubon Naturalist Society. Show less

• Coordinated the annual update, documentation and evaluation of the IUCN Red List status of the world’s birds involving: synthesising published literature in species factsheets; leading discussion fora at www.birdlifeforums.org to solicit inputs from a network of species experts and organisations on Red List category changes; checking that the IUCN Red List criteria were applied correctly and consistently and ensuring threats and actions classification schemes were employed, managing the… Show more • Coordinated the annual update, documentation and evaluation of the IUCN Red List status of the world’s birds involving: synthesising published literature in species factsheets; leading discussion fora at www.birdlifeforums.org to solicit inputs from a network of species experts and organisations on Red List category changes; checking that the IUCN Red List criteria were applied correctly and consistently and ensuring threats and actions classification schemes were employed, managing the activities of up to five contract staff and additional volunteers contributing to the data-gathering components of the programme and updating species range maps with GIS. • Provided technical input to the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group, the IUCN Red List Technical Working Group, BirdLife’s Preventing Extinctions Programme and the Australian Threatened Species Committee. • Key analyses led were a spatial assessment of forest loss in the Amazon basin and projected rates of decline in forest-dependent birds (see publications), and calculating generation lengths for the world’s birds and assessing impacts on their IUCN Red List status. Show less