Professor Jonathan Gardner, NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Fellow (September to December 2011)
The second NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professorship to the UK was awarded to Professor Jonathan Gardner, an international expert in marine biology based in the School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington. Professor Gardner was based at the School for 3 months from late September 2011. He gave four lectures during his time in the UK in which he addressed the UK’s new Marine and Coastal Act, drawing on New Zealand’s own Marine Reserves Act and the more recent Protected Area Policy and Implementation Plan.
Mon 17 Oct 2011: The importance of Marine Reserves & Marine Protected Areas - the New Zealand experience
The Royal Society, Kohn Centre, London SW1
Thu 3 Nov 2011: The design of a Marine Protected Areas network
Plymouth University
Tue 29 Nov 2011: Do Marine Reserves deliver conservation benefits?
York University
Wed 7 Dec 2011: The future of Marine Protected Areas
Zoological Society of London, Huxley Theatre, Regent’s Park, London
NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professorship Lectures Programme 2010-11 [PDF]
Professor Jonathan Gardner's report on his fellowship [Word]
