Sarah Baulch Email & Phone Number

Greater London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Principle Associate on the Preventing Ocean Plastics program at The Pew Charitable Trusts

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

I have expertise in policy advocacy at an international, EU and UK level and extensive knowledge of a range of marine conservation issues. Key areas of expertise include: marine plastic pollution and waste management, EU nature, biodiversity and waste policy, and cetacean conservation and management. Recent areas of work have included the UK microbead ban.

Responsible for scientific research to support campaign strategy and development. Research focused on examining environmental threats to cetaceans and the marine environment including marine debris, bycatch, fisheries, climate change, habitat destruction, shipping, and pollution, as well as reviewing international legislation and.

Responsibilities included managing, undertaking and reporting ecological surveys of potential development and ecological mitigation areas. The objective of my work was to advise and guide clients through their projects in line with European and UK legislation and planning policy relevant to biodiversity. My role included the following: - Liaising with.

Research assistant within team studying blue whales and co-occurring cetacean species in the Sea of Cortez. Conducting photo-identification, tissue sampling and behavioural observations in the field and data analysis.

Conducting field studies of the humpback whale population to record data on spatio-temporal distribution, habitat use, social group composition and behaviour. Training volunteers and undertaking photographic matching and data management to assist with ongoing research to assess the bay's importance as a reproductive area. Dealing with the public and local.

Managing large multi-species projects and producing a wide range of reports, including technical survey reports and mitigation strategies. Assisting in the production of Environmental Statements and Appropriate Assessments.Conducting protected species and habitat surveys, including extended Phase 1 habitat surveys, Code for Sustainable Homes Assessments.

Management of data from the London Habitats and Open Spaces Survey to recommend areas for protection as Sites of Metropolitan, Borough and Local Importance for Nature Conservation.

Undertaking surveys to record the distribution, abundance and habitat use of cetaceans and seabirds in the outer Moray Firth, Wales and Cornwall and assisting with a study of fisheries by-catch in South-west England.Office-based duties assisting the science and policy team with campaign research, administration, data management and analysis. Provision of.

Surveyor on line-transect surveys of cetaceans in Cardigan Bay SAC, undertaking behavioural data collection, acoustic recordings and photography for photo-ID.Analysis of acoustic data from a two year static acoustic monitoring project for my MRes research thesis to examine fine-scale spatial and temporal variations in habitat use of bottlenose dolphins and.

Assisting on a study comparing levels of natural pest control on conventional and organic farms. Key responsibilities of liasing with farmers and undertaking surveys; in addition to researching and presenting food-web interaction data, proof-reading scientific publications and management of databases.Royal Society for the Protection of Birds 2002-2003

Assisting with the monitoring of water vole populations following their release by a captive breeding programme to assess population status and success of the re-introduction program.

Mres, Ecology & Environmental Management, Distinction

Research projects: - Fine-scale spatio-temporal variation in habitat use of bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises - Patterns of.

2006 Bsc (Hons), Zoology, 1St