Mark Stratton Email & Phone Number

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Havant, Portsmouth, Fareham, Gosport

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills have been required of me throughout my career and I have the ability to communicate with specialist and non-specialist audiences. I regularly present at public and community meetings and I have appeared on several TV and radio interviews in relation to my work – most notably ‘BBC Inside Out South West’ on the topic of Coastal Landfill and a ‘BBC Ulster’ radio interview at the National Trust Shifting Shores conference in 2018. I am a strong technical report writer and adept at simplifying information for use by non-scientists. I also regularly write scientific abstracts and papers and present at national and international conferences and I am recognised as a specialist in my field. My highlights include writing scientific papers for and or presenting at;• The European Climate Change Conference, Hamburg, Germany 2013• Ecohaz –Project co-funded by the EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection – Oxford 2015• METROPOLE – Sea defence conference, NERC funded. Sussex 2016• The CIWEM Rivers and Coastal Group Annual Conference. London 2017• New Civil Engineers Flood Management Forum. London 2017• Environment Agency Flood and Coast, 2018• National Trust Shifting Shores, Belfast, NI, 2018• New Civil Engineer Round Table – Future of Flood & Erosion, London, 2019• Institute of Civil Engineers Coastal Management Conference, La Rochelle, France, 2019• Royal Town Planning Institute – Planning at the Coast, 2021• CIRIA – Managing the risks from climate change on contaminated land, 2020• CIWEM Flood & Coast – Coastal Session Chair. Member of organising committee. Judge on excellence awards panel, 2021, 2022• DAERA Northern Ireland Policy Approach Workshop, advising NI government of shoreline Management Planning 2021• Seaties - Adapting coastal cities to sea level rise in Northern Europe 2021

Havant, Portsmouth, Fareham, Gosport

I have a detailed understanding of the shoreline management planning (SMP) process, having been on the project team who delivered two of these plans on the south coast. I also have a solid understanding of the national Defra policy and National FCERM Strategy backdrop, having been part of the Environment Agency working groups that helped to shape their development from 2017-2020. An understanding of the legislation at the coast is an important element of my day-to-day work when delivering significant infrastructure projects at the shoreline, alongside planning for coastal change and an appreciation of the National Planning Policy Framework. I have helped the Local Authorities I work for write and deliver Local Plan Policy at the coast and develop Coastal Change Management Areas to manage coastal change effectively.At the operational level I have then gone on to deliver the SMP policies on the ground through the development of localised strategies and then flood defence and erosion protection schemes, alongside the implementation of long-term adaptation plans and habitat creation and improvement projects. This required the development of project scopes, procuring professional support, optioneering, study design and delivery and the supervision of all of the necessary licensing and consenting.One of my responsibilities is to oversee the Coastal Partners future work programme and to identify broader outcome and place shaping opportunities. I am a specialist in strategic thinking and aligning multiple objectives to deliver wider benefits through partnership working. As a result, I have secured multi-millions of partnership funding which has helped to deliver significant outcomes for FCERM and the communities that it benefits.

Havant, Portsmouth, Fareham, Gosport

Havant, Portsmouth, Fareham, Gosport

At the Environment Agency I worked on an INTERREG funded project called 'Coastal Communities 2150'. The project engaged with priority communities at risk from long term coastal change both in the UK and across Europe. The main objective of the project was to develop new ways of engaging with communities and new ways of communicating the risks of coastal climate change.I was responsible for attending and presenting at European partner workshops and for the running of community engagement groups where I presented complex information about coastal management and sea level rise in a simple and understandable way. I also ran an internal activity group consisting of technical specialists who helped to inform the CC2150 project

Southampton, United Kingdom

My main role at CCO involved the responsibility for the management of the survey schedule for a large section of the southeast UK coastline (East Solent). This included the planning and implementation of topographic beach surveys and coastal research projects; data/information processing and analysis and finally the interpretation and dissemination of the results. I personally undertook over 600 topographic surveys so have an excellent knowledge of surveying procedures.From 2008-2011 I sat on the project team and client steering group for the North Solent Shoreline Management Plan. My specific responsibilities included, but were not limited to: stakeholder engagement coordination, erosion risk mapping, predicting future shoreline change scenarios, producing policy statements and general project administration work. Close links with local planning authorities and engineers was essential to the successful completion of this project.I utilised a host of analytical software including the ArcMap and MapInfo GIS suite, Matlab, Halcrows ‘SANDS’ database, CAD, Microsoft Office, and other more specialist programs and models.

Msc Applied Marine Science, Perceptions & Management Of Sea Level Rise In Europe

Awarded Full funding by NERC

Bsc Oceanography With Physical Geography: 1St Class, Oceanography, Chemical And Physical

Education record