Marine environmental advice & consultancy

Skills & services

Andrew engages in wide-ranging ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ marine environmental activities, sometimes alone, mostly in mixed-skill international teams, often as leader & principal scientist. more

Andrew is highly experienced in coastal management & planning, including environmental assessment, EIA, damage assessment and environmental law. Through survey and analysis, he also assesses marine ecosystems, biodiversity and fisheries.

Often Andrew collaborates with industry, international organizations and academia, and he has extensive experience within each. Amongst Andrew’s special skills are: familiarity with remote environments and ability to integrate complex information. Besides 80+ scientific publications and books, he is author of many consultancy & technical reports.

Snapshot of professional services

Here is a selection of what Andrew does, mostly for international agencies and overseas clients.

Indian Ocean & Pacific

environmental impact assessment of 25 km Saudi-Bahrain causeway (UN Environment Programme)
National Development Plan and Tourism Master Plan, Maldives (Ministry of Environment/European Commission)
assessment of mangroves around power plant, Xiamen, China (3rd Institute of Oceanography/British Council)
survey of resources and coastal management needs for Red Sea and Gulf coasts of Saudi Arabia (Saudi government/IUCN – World Conservation Union)
evaluation of environmental damage & compensation claims, following massive oil spill linked to 1991 Gulf War (UN Compensation Commission/Industrial Economics Inc.)
developed legislation for conservation of biodiversity and protected areas, Red Sea & Gulf States (MacAllister Elliott & Partners/EC)
environmental policies for economic management, Marshall Islands (Asian Development Bank/Maxwell Stamp Ltd)

Atlantic & Caribbean

risk assessment, Chad-Cameroon pipeline project (WWF- Cameroon)
research plan, Banc National du Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania (World Wide Fund for Nature)
analysis of plans for cruise ship expansions, Bermuda (Bermuda National Trust/Industrial Economics Inc.)
development of coastal management framework, Belize (IUCN – World Conservation Union)
Conservation and development planning, Tunisia coast (Global Environment Facility)