Conservation Oceanographer, Director High Seas Program (Washington DC) - Mr. Ardron directs MCBI’s high seas program. He holds a M.Sc. in Environment and Management, from Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada. He has worked in the fishing sector, NGO sector, in federal government, and within international conventions. Previous to joining MCBI, he was a senior scientific advisor on marine protected areas (MPAs) for the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation.
He is a specialist in marine spatial planning, has developed several spatial analysis techniques, and has consulted to UN bodies, NGOs, IGOs, and government. Until his recent move back to North America, he was active within OSPAR (Oslo-Paris regional seas convention of the NE Atlantic) leading several aspects of MPA network assessment, and served as Secretary to its Intersessional Correspondence Group on Marine Protected Areas. He co-led the Convention on Biological Diversity’s development of MPA network criteria for the open ocean and deep seas, which were adopted at ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties. A central theme throughout his work is the bridging of marine science with policy |