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Invasive non-native species policy lead for SEPA - Scottish policy development (e.g. Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011) and SEPA implementation; UKTAG Alien Species Group; GB Non-Native Species Programme Board and Committee; GB Media and Communications group; GB Rapid Response Working Group (chair); Scottish Statutory Group on Non-Native Species; Scottish Non-Native Species Action Group (Scottish Biodiversity Strategy delivery); Scotland's Environment Web non-native species… Show more Invasive non-native species policy lead for SEPA - Scottish policy development (e.g. Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011) and SEPA implementation; UKTAG Alien Species Group; GB Non-Native Species Programme Board and Committee; GB Media and Communications group; GB Rapid Response Working Group (chair); Scottish Statutory Group on Non-Native Species; Scottish Non-Native Species Action Group (Scottish Biodiversity Strategy delivery); Scotland's Environment Web non-native species reporting portal.Conservation policy implementation in SEPA; Biodiversity Delivery Agreement and biodiversity reporting.Habitat networks, Rivers for Conservation and Riverwoods.Otter national species advisory group. Show less

Managed team of 6 ecologists, overseeing freshwater ecological monitoring of Angus, Dundee, Fife, Stirlingshire and Clackmannan and Perthshire. Member of Tayside Biodiversity Partnership Steering Group and Chair of Water and Wetlands sub-group. Member of Dundee Partnership for the Environment.Previously an ecologist in this team with responsibility for ecological monitoring of Fife and part of Perthshire. Long term monitoring of macrophytes and invertebrates on the Loch Leven NNR.

Msc, Marine Environmental Protection

Bsc, Marine Biology/Zoology