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Research
While I've been lucky to work across several seemingly very different projects, the thread connecting them all is the use of science to inform sustainable management of our oceans. I am an expert in the application of predictive approaches to enhance or collate best available data, something critical when considering the positioning of area-based management tools like Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). My skills in this span from spatial modelling of seafloor habitats to the application of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to detect and identify objects in seafloor imagery.
Below are short summaries of both some of the projects I've worked on, and some of the projects that are still ongoing.
Projects
Other Projects & Networks
Development of the Tristan da Cunha Marine Protection Zone Management Plan
​Rapid wreck assessment near Tristan da Cunha
Ecology of Pheronema carpenteri aggregations in the Porcupine Seabight
Submission of new Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) habitat type to the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas
Habitat suitability modelling (HSM) of VMEs (Demsophyllum pertusum reef and Pheronema carpenteri)in the North Atlantic
Global habitat classification for the deep-sea benthos (via Mission Atlantic)
Mapping of blue carbon-rich taxa (seagrass and kelp) in southeast Cornwall, UK
Application of Ocean Data in Decision Making by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (via DOOS, DOSI and Challenger150)
Active in both the Central and South Atlantic and the North Atlantic Challenger150 Working Groups
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