| Research
in 2007...
Throughout 2007 I worked as a consultant on several research projects
for NGOs in Cambridge, including TRAFFIC
International and the IUCN
Species Trade and Use Unit. In November 2007 I published an
article in the SPC
Live Reef Fish Information Bulletin about lessons learned for
the management of the live reef fish trade [download
PDF].
Researcher, TRAFFIC
International, UK
October 2007,co- wrote Asian coastal
fisheries case study for report on Wildlife Trade Management and
Sustainable Livelihoods
Researcher, TRAFFIC
Europe, UK
May 2007, conducted research for TRAFFIC Europe Briefing Document
on international trade in caviar and sturgeon for use at CITES Conference
of Parties 14 (CoP14)
Researcher, CITES
Analysis Team, IUCN Species Trade and Use Unit, UK
January to April 2007, I wrote IUCN Analyses of proposal to include
Porbeagle,
Spiny
dogfish, European
Eels, Banggai
Cardinalfish and Sawfish
in the CITES Appendices
Research in 2006...
In 2006 I published a letter in the journal
Science about the live reef fish trade entitled Keeping
the bandits at bay?
It attracted a positive response from a group of 15 international
coral reef scientists and also lots of media attention with coverage
in The
Observer, United
Press International, Cyber
Diver News Network and Mongabay.
Researcher, TRAFFIC Europe,
UK
December 2006, worked on report to CITES Secretariat on implementation
of recommendations following Significant Trade Review process
Researcher, IUCN Shark
Specialist Group, UK
October to November 2006, working on IUCN
Red List assessments and study for Convention on Migratory Species
Maritime Support Officer,
English Nature, UK
April to September 2006, working on various
English marine conservation issues
Natural Sciences tutor,
University of Cambridge
January to May 2006, tutoring conservation biology to final year
undergraduates in the Department of Zoology
And before then...
PhD, University of Cambridge, UK - the
exploitation of coral reef fishes for the Live Reef Fish Trade
October 2001 to July 2005, Conservation
Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
I was superivsed by Andrew Balmford and Andrea
Manica. Summary of my PhD research
Marine researcher, WWF Malaysia
October 2000 to October 2001, studied the biodiversity of and threats
to the marine ecosystems of the Langkawi archipelago, Penninsular
Malaysia
MSc in Tropical Coastal Management, University
of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Sept 1999 to Sept 2000, including 3 month research project - impartial
prioritisation of threats to habitats in marine protected areas
when I collaborared with WWF Malaysia in the Pulau Tioman Marine
Park
Consultant research diver, Mitochondrion
Enterprises, Sabah, Malaysia
June 2000, conducted field surveys for establishment
of sea cucumber farm
MA in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge,
UK - the validity of CITES as a monitoring and regulating tool
for the global trade in coral
October 1998 to April 1999, see Green &
Hendry 1999
Reseach assistant, Pelagic Shark Research Foundation,
Santa Cruz, California
Summer 1998, conducted field studies of
sharks in Monterery Bay and taught marine biology on kids summer
camps
Research diver, Coral Cay Conservation expeditions
to Belize and the Philippines
Summer 1997 and 1995, conducted underwater
habitat and species surveys
Research assistant, Whale Shark Monitoring Project,
CALM, Western Australia
March to May 1996, mornitored whale shark
abundance and movements from sea and air
Published papers &
reports...
Scales, H., Balmford, A., Manica, A. (2007).
Monitoring the life reef food fish trade: lesson learned from local
and global perspectives. SPC Live Reef Fish Information Bulletin.
17:36-42. Download
PDF.
Scales, H., Balmford,
A., Manica, A. (2007). The impacts of the Live Reef Fish Trade on
populations of coral reef fish off Northern Borneo, Proc. Roy. Soc.
B. 274:989-994. Download
PDF.
Scales, H., Balmford,
A., Liu, M., Sadovy, Y., Manica, A. (2006). Keeping bandits at bay?
Science,
313: 612-613.
Hendry, H, McWilliams, J (2001). An inventory of the diversity and
abundance of reef building corals, other coral reef invertebrates
and coral reef fish in the Langkawi archipelago. WWF Malaysia, Kuala
Lumpur, 185p.
Hendry, HJ (2000). Update of the ecological status of the coral
reefs of the Pulau Tioman Marine Park, Peninsular Malaysia. Report
produced under project MYS 447. Petaling Jaya, Malaysia: WWF Malaysia,
45p.
Green, EP, Hendry, H (1999). Is CITES an effective
tool for monitoring trade in corals? Coral
Reefs, 18: 403-407.
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