Matt Pinkerton
Matt Pinkerton is a Principal Scientist at NIWA, based in Wellington (New Zealand). His research brings together satellite remote sensing and ecosystem modelling, with an interest in how environmental variability affects the structure and function of marine food-webs with special focus on the role of middle trophic-level species. He has worked on the ecology and management of the Ross Sea region for nearly 20 years, including representing New Zealand at CCAMLR meetings and Southern Ocean bioregionalisation workshops.
He was programme leader of the Ross Sea Monitoring and Research Programme “Ross-RAMP”, a 5-year project to monitor and evaluate the conservation value of the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area, and is objective leader in the New Zealand Antarctic Science Platform.
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