Survey Experience: Other Subjects

• Presence/absence surveys for bats.
• Considerable experience with the use of the Bat Box III and familiar with the echolocation and behaviour of a wide range of british bats.
• Voluntary bat census work for the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) including roost counts, colony counts, field surveys and waterway surveys.
• Assistance with bat surveys at the London Wetland Centre.
• Advcie for the Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) for Epsom and Ewell Borough Council.
• Environmental ’watching briefs’ for a range of tasks including roads and the CTRL channel tunnel line.
• Water Vole surveys.
• General aquatic surveys (fish, plants, invertebrates etc.).
• Assistance with the London Wetland Centre ’Wildlife Garden Week’.
• Assistance with the rescue of the native White-clawed Crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes.
• Checks for Japanese Knotweed, Giant Hogweed and alien aquatics like Azolla (Water Fern) and Crassula (New Zeland Stonecrop).
• Assistance with film crews working on wildlife issues at home and abroad.
• Advice to a range of groups on wildlife conservation including the Southern Wildlife Areas Network (SWAN), for people involved practically in nature conservation in southern England, and with the Lingfield Wildlife Reserves group.
• I am also an advanced BSAC (British Sub-aqua club) diver (CMAS **) and a qualified dive cox and voluntary work for the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has incuded the Seasearch survey that uses volunteer divers to monitor marine life and habitats.
• I am also a past committee memeber of the S.E. branch of the MCS.
• With my experience abroad, my M.Sc in Oceangraphy, and as a Co-author of SEALIFE - A Complete Guide to the Marine Environment, I am familiar  with marine surveys and identication of marine life, from seabirds to sharks, and marine mammals to coral reef fishes.
• I am also a funder member of the Shark Trust.
• My time as a guide in the Peruvian Amazon was invaluable to get an experience of the rainforest, how to look for and detect life in this ’hidden realm’, and I was able to experience some of the leading rainforest scientists at work.    
• Also refer to work abroad on my guiding /exploring page
• And refer to my wildlife presentations on my talks page.