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Sarah Hamylton

Sarah Hamylton graduated from Southampton University in 2003 with a Masters in Environmental Sciences, specialising in Marine Resource Management. She has carried out remote sensing projects to conserve tropical marine ecosystems for several organisations, including the Fijian Ministry of Tourism, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Republic of the Philippines and the United Nations Environment Programme. Having completed a second Masters in Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, Sarah is now working on a PhD at Cambridge University, developing coastal management tools from remote sensing datasets.

Gwilym Rowlands

Gwilym Rowlands is a PhD student at the National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI), NOVA South Eastern University. The Fellowship supports Gwilym’s investigations towards a greater understanding of coral reef processes over space and time, through the use and development of powerful spectral remote sensing techniques. Gwilym graduated from York University in 2006, with a Master of Research in Ecology and Environmental Management. During this period Gwilym worked intimately with NCRI on a project using satellite imagery to assess the 2005 coral reef bleaching event at Roatan, Honduras.

Gwilym also collaborated on a project proposing Marine Protected Area (MPA) networks for the High Seas, and developed individual based models of species dispersal.  Gwilym has worked in the field of remote sensing, biological resource mapping, and education for several organizations, notably for an Egyptian, United Nations Development Project, and for the Fijian Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Fisheries projects.

Alex Venn (2007 Only)

Alex Venn completed his Ph.D. at the University of York, UK and the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS). His research focuses on the impact of environmental stress on corals and their symbiotic algae. He is currently developing gene-based markers of coral stress to build the capacity for improved means of coral health assessment.