I am a Team Leader and Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO Environment, leading a broad range of projects with applications in conservation and sustainable use. My work includes a of portfolio of projects on assessment and prediction of biodiversity, cumulative impacts and risk, and management of biodiversity within Australias EEZ and globally in collaboration with the CBD, ISA and FAO. This work includes the develop approaches to the management and monitoring of marine biodiversity for the Australian Government, with direct application to Australian Marine Parks. I have expertise on the identification, analysis, management and conservation of marine biodiversity and data systems to support these efforts and have developed statistical tools to robustly quantify the effects of human activity on marine biodiversity and quantifying patterns of distributions and processes to quantify cumulative risk in the marine environment. This involves collaboration with a broad range of scientists including ecologists, taxonomists, geologists, oceanographers, spatial modellers, fisheries scientists, and statisticians.

I work in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans to assist countries to develop the technical capacity to improve the governance and management of oceans. This includes support for information management, geospatial analysis, ecosystem characterisation & bioregionalisation and development of environmental policy. These programs apply our experience in the implementation of an Ecosystem Approach to support activities in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.