Kerry Sink
Title:
Dr
First Name:
Kerry
Last Name:
Sink
Gender:
Female
Position:
Marine Program Manager
Institution:
South African National Biodiversity Institute
Country:
South Africa
Email:
k.sink@sanbi.org.za
Phone:
+27-21-7998855
Website:
www.sanbi.org
Sector:
Technologies and techniques:
Oceanographic Locations:
Deep Ocean Vertical Zones:
Deep Sea Habitats:
Involvement in policy or management:
- Fishing (trawling/long-lining/ghost fishing/bycatch)
- Mining (polymetallic sulphides / cobalt-rich crusts / polymetallic nodules / REMs / phophorites)
- Oil and Gas
- Underwater cables/pipelines
- Acoustics
- Bioprospecting
- Scientific codes of conduct and impact assessments
- Climate Change
- Ocean Acidification
- Litter disposal
- Sewage disposal
- Large structure (wrecks/rigs) disposal
- Munitions disposal
- Mine Tailings disposal
Involvement in policy or management - Other:
Planning
Experience with bodies or processes:
- National government advisors
- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) or any of its Commissions
- Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
- Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI)
- Regional fisheries management organizations and/or their scientific commissions
- An industry consultative body (e.g. the European RACs)
- NGOs (please specify in other below)
- Environmental impact assessments (EIAs)
- Developing codes of conduct
- Developing impact assessment guidelines/standards
Experience with bodies or processes - Other:
WWF, BirldLife
Primary Language:
Other Languages:
Secondary Language - Other:
Zulu
Primary Expertise:
Secondary Expertise:
3 priority science questions that need to be answered:
1. Recovery potential of different deesea habitats to emerging pressures 2. How can we better mobilise in-situ research to support deepsea management in the developing world (we cannot get into the habitats!) 3. What are the best surrogates for mapping offshore biodiversity