Jeff Ardron

WCPA-Marine Advisor on MPA Design, Tools and Software and Scientific Advisor to the WCPA-Marine High Seas MPA Task Force and Director, High Seas Program, MCBI

MCBI: marine spatial planning and high seas

Jeff Ardron is currently working as Director of the High Seas Program at the Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI). He is also an advisor on marine conservation issues for BirdLife International, Europe. He serves as Regional Coordinator of the NE Atlantic for the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA-Marine), Scientific Advisor on the WCPA High Seas Task Force, and is Secretary for the OSPAR Intersessional Correspondence Group on marine protected areas (MPAs). He maintains his involvement in North America by continuing to serve as Vice-President of the Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association (PacMARA), which is a trans-disciplinary collection of scientists from government, academia, and NGOs on the Pacific coast of Canada. He holds an MSc in Environment and Management, from Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada. He is a specialist in marine spatial planning, and has pioneered several spatial analysis techniques. His European work focuses on MPA assessments within the NE Atlantic (OSPAR Convention), the Baltic (HELCOM −Helsinki Convention), and the high seas.