Principal Research Scientist — Marine Science Program (Monitoring).

To play a leading role in establishing and learning from strategic monitoring of Western Australia’s marine biodiversity. Provide expert advice on marine science projects to be undertaken by DEC’s Marine Science Program.

• Broad range of resource surveys completed across 18 Countries and Territories in the Pacific and both the north and southern coasts of Western Australia.
• Marine assessments completed for research agencies in NSW and Western Australia.
• Establishing long-term monitoring programs for marine managed areas.

Academic Qualifications

• PhD, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia
• MSc, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
• BSC (Hons), Marine Biology. Swansea University, Wales, United Kingdom

• Formalising strategy, standard operating procedures and monitoring protocols for a long-term monitoring program that seeks to understand change in the marine environment
• Collaborating with regional partners to implement the long-term monitoring
• Incorporating where possible information from historical studies and archived data-sets

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2009

Friedman K (2009). Establishing a long term marine monitoring programme for ecological and social assets in Western Australia (ABSTRACT). In Third annual Ningaloo Research Symposium: Ningaloo into the future: integrating science into management, 26 and 27 May 2009, Novotel Ningaloo Resort, Exmouth, Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation, Kensington, WA. p. 62