Mangroves, Seagrass, and Coral Reefs observation.

I have been working at the Ministry for Environment for the past 21 years  in Coastal Zone Management . I specialise in erosion and  coastal protection works .

I also have experience in environment impact assessment  and environmental pollution abatement.

PhD in tropical marine botany.

Fields of expertise

1. Marine plants both mangroves and algae
2. Marine protected areas, networks of MPAs
3. Sustainable financing of protected areas
4. Mangrove restoration and management

Countries of working expertise: Kenya, Tanzania, Palau, FSM, CNMI, Indonesia., Papua new Guinea,  Marshall Islands., Fiji and Solomon Islands.

 

Shannon Hampton is the Programme Manager at IOI-SA. She coordinates the IOI-SA Course in Ocean Governance for Africa that runs annually. She is passionate about responsible fisheries practice and helped initiate the IOI-SA’s Small-scale fisheries work in 2016. She completed her PhD in a multidisciplinary study on small pelagic fish stock structure at the University of Cape Town. Her MSc, also at UCT, investigated the impact of flipper bands on African Penguins while her BSc (Hons) projects focused on inter-tidal invasive species.

• MPA development and management
• Local communities capacity building
• Fisheries management

My work focuses human disturbance and environmental variability affect persistence and recovery of marine systems, and how we can manage complex systems for long term sustainability. I have worked for over 20 years designing research and conservation projects to address conservation challenges in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. I use a combination of  tools including capacity building, field studies, collaborative research, development of management strategies, and long-term data collection.

Aquatic Science; coastal resources management and deep sea ecology; biodiversity and taxonomy

Dr Narriman Jiddawi has an MSC degree on Fisheries management  obtained at the University of North Wales, Bangor and a PhD on Marine sciences obtained from the University of Dar es salaam. She has worked extensively on issues related to mariculture, fisheries management and socio-economic women empowerment along the coast. She has also worked on Climate change projects and Blue economy.

Marine ecosystem modeling (Ecological Network Analysis (ENA):  Seagrass ecosystems, fish larval supply and recruitment, fish community analyses; Ocean observation: Remote sensing, climate change