United Kingdom
Project manager Scottish Government Land Use Strategy pilot project Biodiversity offsets Scottish Borders Woodland Strategy-co-author Supplementary Planning Guidance for biodiversity Supplementary Planning Guidance for wind energy (co-author) Scottish Award for Quality in Planning- 2006 (Borders Wetland Vision), 2012 (Biodiversity offsets) Provide ecological advice to statutory planning (Development Management and Forward Planning) Coordinator Scottish Borders Local Biodiversity Action Plan Corporate Biodiversity duty Council representative Solway-Tweed River Basin Management Plan Flood Protection Schemes ALGE Scotland representative 2011-
Species and Habitats Officer 1999-2002: secretariat Corncrake BAP RSPB Corncrake Recovery Strategy Red Kite reintroduction, Dumfries & Galloway Senior Research Assistant 1995-1999: Grouse moor management and ground-nesting birds 1995-96 Lowland breeding wader survey Scotland and Northern England 1997-98 Winter Farmland bird surveys 1997-98
Game Conservancy Trust Research Assistant, Joint raptor Study, Langholm, Dec1994-March 1995 Herbarium Assistant, National Museums of Liverpool Autumn 1994 RSPB, Senior Research assistant, coordinator, Red-throated diver survey, Shetland, May-August 1994 Temporary office work- Manpower Ltd, October 1993-May 1994 Institute for Terrestrial Ecology, Research Assistant, Joint Raptor Study, Langholm, February-July 1993 Countryside Council for Wales, Assistant, Phase 1 habitat team November 1991-April 1992 Nature Conservancy Council, Research assistant, Corn bunting research & Seabirds at Sea Team, May-August 1986 Durham University, Shore bird research group, February-May 1986