Stephen Long Email & Phone Number

Fort Dauphin, Madagascar

• Responsible for research and implementation aspects of Project Oratsimba, a FAO/SmartFish funded project to establish sustainable, community-based, fishery management in southeast Madagascar. This entails:
• Design of participatory fishery monitoring programme to inform and assess management
• Data collection including; recruitment, training and management of community data collectors and SEED Madagascar volunteer programme assistants
• Design and management of a relational database (MS Access), including data audit
• Developing and implementing android smartphone app based data collection using the Open Data Kit (ODK) platform
• Mapping spatial and temporal distribution of effort, in relation to the fishery’s No Take Zone (NTZ), using GPS data loggers and ArcGIS 10.1

Mariarano, Madagascar

• Responsible for overseeing sampling effort, database management and lecturing/supervision of students for a long-term, terrestrial, ecological monitoring project in dry forest and mangroves of northwest Madagascar..
• Audit and input of all field data to relational database from ornithological, herpetological, mammalian and botanical surveys
• Managing scientific team to ensure consistent application of methodologies and even distribution of sampling effort
• Disseminating data to academics, PhD students and dissertation students
• Assisting with data collection
• Liaising with Malagasy scientists

London, United Kingdom

Sustainable fishing in Greenland: impact of deep-sea trawling on benthic ecosystemsThis collaborative project will develop understanding of the structure, function and diversity of benthic communities in the Greenland halibut fishery, using photographic, video, bycatch and environmental data. This will allow the impact of fishing on the ecosystem to be.

Provided support, training and advice relating to the financial and operational projects initiated, see below.

• Kaplan Open Learning (Essex) in partnership with the University of Essex and Wivenhoe House Hotel established the Edge Hotel School, offering innovative hotel management degrees with an academic and vocational.
• modelling approaches to solve operational issues
• identifying the optimum model and managing its implementation (ensuring coherent structure of degree, consistent staffing of Wivenhoe House Hotel with an even workload for the academic team)
• consultation with the academic team and professional staff at Wivenhoe House Hotel, throughout
• reviewing and transforming the processes surrounding income recognition, income collection and revenue forecasting, drawing on my previous accounting experience
• analysing and adapting the marketing and student recruitment strategy

Involved in a water vole translocation project at Wallasea Island. Duties included setting and checking traps, recording data and monitoring water vole field signs. This is an on-going project to create Europe's largest man-made coastal reserve as part of the Crossrail development.

Durham

• Conducted research into spatial distribution of organic carbon in urban areas, in particular developing an innovative method utilizing aerial photography to rapidly and cost effectively inventory organic carbon in.
• unsupervised field and laboratory work
• independent problem solving
• development of a novel methodology
• analysis of aerial photography
• quadrat based sampling

London, United Kingdom

• I joined Deloitte in the Insurance and Investment Management department, my principal responsibility was conducting statutory financial audits, based at client sites. I attended the financial training college Kaplan.
• Substantive testing and controls testing
• Analytically reviewing balance sheet and profit and loss figures.
• Reviewing client prepared Financial Statements and FSA returns and working with clients to correct errors and omissions.
• Communicating with clients predominantly face to face, as well as by phone and e-mail, to obtain explanations and supporting evidence.
• Verifying balance sheet figures by liaising with third parties such as banks.

Msc, Conservation And Biodiversity

Activities and Societies: FXU Men's Lacrosse, kayak fishing.One year postgraduate degree, with a taught modules and an independent.

Bsc Hons, Biology, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Durham University Men's Lacrosse Club (member of BUCS National Championship winning sides and Club Treasurer).