School of Biosciences

Positions and responsibilities

Past responsibilities have included:

• Member of Council of the Countryside Council for Wales (1991-1994);
• Member, Department of the Environment Acid Waters Review Group (1987-1988);
• Member, Department of the Environment Review Group on Nitrogen Deposition (1991-1992);
• Member, DETR Critical Loads Advisory Group (1989-1996);
• Member, DETR National Expert Group on Transboundary Air Pollution (1999-2002);
• Co-ordinating peer reviewer, Defra ‘Farmland Conservation and Biodiversity’ research (2004-2005)
• Member, Agence National de la Recherche : Institut Français de la Biodiversité, Commission d'évaluation de la recherche en Biodiversité (2005)
• Member, Ecology and Environmental Biology Review Panel, Research School for Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment ( SENSE The Netherlands)
• Member, Science Advisory Committee of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (1996-2006)
• Member, Ornithological Affairs Committee, British Ornithologists’ Union (1998-2002);
• Member of Council, Freshwater Biological Association (2000-2004)
• Member, RSPB Wales’ Advisory Committee (1996-2007)
• Chief Editor of the Journal of Applied Ecology 1999-2005
• Editorial board member, Environmental Pollution (1988-2002 );

Current responsibilities include:

• Chairman, RSPB Wales Advisory Commitee (2007- );
• Member of Council and Trustee, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (2001- )
• Member, editorial board Freshwater Biology (1992- );
• Member, editorial board of Aquatic Conservation : Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (1998- )
• President-elect, Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management  Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (2008-2011)
• Retained consultant to the Environmental Protection Agency ( Ireland), Environment Agency and Cardiff Harbour Authority