MEMBERS DETAILS

For further information or to find out how you help please contact us.

Gavin Black
Devon Biodiversity Records Centre
35-37 St David's Hill
Exeter
EX4 4DA UK
Tel: +44(0)1392 279244
dbrc@devonwt.cix.co.uk
www.devonwildlifetrust.org
The Devon Biodiversity Records Centre (DBRC) maintains the marine biological database for Devon and is the Local Data Entry Point for Seasearch data in Devon.  With the Devon Wildlife Trust, DBRC also monitors species indicative of healthy reefs in Lyme Bay, including Eunicella verrucosa.  DBRC offers a range of environmental information services and can provide information on Eunicella verrucosa in Devon.

Aethne Cooke
Marine Biodiversity Liason Officer
CCW Llanion House
Llanion Park
Pembroke Dock
Pembrokeshire
SA72 6DY UK
Tel: +44(0)1646 684012
A.Cooke@ccw.gov.uk
www.ccw.gov.uk

Joana Doyle
Marine Conservation Officer & Cornwall's Seasearch Coordinator
Cornwall Wildlife Trust
Five Acres
Allet
Truro
Cornwall
TR4 9DJ, UK
Tel: +44(0)1872 273 939
www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk
Through Seasearch in Cornwall we have identified may more sites where the pink seafan occurs. During 2005, pink seafan surveys were carried out at Bawdens Rock St. Agnes, Newland Island-Padstow bay, The Sphene wreck-North Cornwall and at the Manacles. Plans are underway to re-survey these sites and to survey new sites during 2006. These data are currently being analysed and reports will be available to download soon. If you would like to be involved in these surveys in Cornwall please contact Joana Doyle on 01872 273939.

Chris Wood
National Seasearch Coordinator
Seasearch c/o Marine Conservation Society
Wolf Business Park
Alton Road
Ross on Wye
HR9 5NB, UK
Tel: +44(0)1989 561 594
Fax:+44(0)1989 567 815
Tel: +44(0)7776 142096
chris@seasearch.org.uk
www.seasearch.org.uk
Seasearch has organised surveys of pink sea fans in south-west Britain and northern sea fans in Scotland since 2001. This has included a general survey recording presence, abundance, condition, size and fouling organisms present throughout the range, and more specific studies of populations under stress in Lundy, Bigbury Bay and Lyme Bay. Records have also been made of the presence and numbers of sea fan anemones and in situ recording of population dynamics has been undertaken at the Manacles and Whitsand Bay, both in Cornwall.
Recording forms and guidance notes are available on the recording page of the Seasearch website www.seasearch.org.uk.

Keith Hiscock
MBA Executive Secretary & Programme Director, Marine Life Information Network for Britain and Ireland
The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
The Laboratory
Citadel Hill
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 2PB UK
Tel: +44 (0)1752 633207
Fax: +44 (0) 1752 633102
khis@mba.ac.uk
www.mba.ac.uk
Developing scientific tools to support marine environmental management protection and education. Identifying and researching likely impacts of climate change on seabed wildlife in Great Britain. Developing survey methods and educational tools for volunteer recording of marine wildlife. The ecology of sublittoral rocky areas. Survey and monitoring of seabed biotopes.

Philippa Hoskin
Maritime Environment Officer
Environment and Heritage Service
Cornwall County Council County Hall
Treyew Road
Truro
TR1 3AY, UK
www.cornwall.gov.uk
Cornwall County Council has been involved with a range of projects and programmes relating to Marine Protected Areas in Cornwall's inshore waters, including the St Agnes Voluntary No Take Zone Demonstration Trial, the Whitsand Bay Marine Sanctuary Zone Public Consultation and more recently the south west project, Finding Sanctuary, all with the aim of improving the sustainability of the marine environment. In Cornwall, Finding Sanctuary will initially be helping to identify significant areas in Cornwall's inshore waters for fish and wildlife using best available information, with a view to guiding potential locations for Marine Protected Areas in the future.

Rachel Jones
Zoological Society of London
Regents Park
London
NW1 4RY, UK
Tel: +44(0)208 449 6482
Rachel.jones@zsl.org
www.zsl.org
ZSL’s aquarium has a well-established reputation for work with tropical coral species and has now started to work with native species as well. ZSL chose to work with the Pink Sea Fan in particular as it is a flagship species for British Marine conservation, and also has a role to play in aquarium exhibits for education and awareness-raising.
ZSL and The Deep aquarium jointly designed a project to examine the husbandry requirements for the Pink Sea fan in captivity, and this received English Nature funding in 2005. The primary aims of the project are to evaluate the importance of various parameters such as flow (direction, pattern and strength), nutrition (particle size, food type, feed frequency) and water quality (micro-nutrients, dissolved organic compounds) on the health and growth of the pink sea fan colonies. The experimental colonies were collected from a site in Cornwall in October 2005 and the research trials will start in early 2006. Early observations have already been made of the veliger larvae of the sea fan nudibranch, which hatched from egg cases on the sea fan colonies shortly after their arrival into the holding system. Ultimately this work will help to develop husbandry protocols that will enable aquariums holding this species to optimize their conditions.
In the longer term ZSL hopes to develop a long-standing research interest in sexual reproduction in corals species to cover the pink sea fan. There is great potential for ex-situ settlement of pink sea fan larvae using some of the techniques developed for use with tropical species, and this is a topic we hope to work on in the coming years.

Colin Munro
Marine Bio-images - Photography, video, survey &, research 
Brookfield
Leigh Cross, Dunsford
Exeter, Devon
EX6 7BR, UK
Mob: +44 (0)7906 795451
Tel/Fax +44(0)1647 252582
colin-m@marine-bio-images.com
sales@marine-bio-images.com
http://www.marine-bio-images.com
Marine Bio-images conducts research on the ecology of the pink seafan Eunicella verrucosa on temperate reefs in Southwest England.  Established by Colin and Lexie Munro, our research focusses on the seafan population on the East Tennants Reef in Lyme Bay, offshore the Devon and Dorset border.  Specifically, our work addresses the population dynamics and reproductive ecology of Eunicella verrucosa.

Phil Newman
Skomer MNR Officer (CCW BAP contact for pink seafan)
Countryside Council for Wales
Skomer Marine Nature Reserve
Fisherman’s Cottage
Martin’s Haven
Marloes
Pembrokeshire,
SA62 3BJ, UK
Tel: +44(0)1646 636736
skomer.mnr@ccw.gov.uk
www.ccw.gov.uk
Skomer MNR has a history of seafan monitoring going back to the mid 1980s where a small number of colonies were photographed using stereo photographic techniques as part of a wider monitoring project. Since then seafan monitoring has expanded over the years to include over 100 individual colonies at ten different sites within the Reserve. The colonies are photographed annually and assessed for condition (physical damage, fouling by epibiota, entanglement with man-made materials, necrosis) and the presence of Tritonia nilsodhneri and Simnia patula. Results feed back to both national and local BAP reporting.

Bernard E. Picton
Curator of marine invertebrates
Zoology Department
Ulster Museum,
Belfast
BT9 5AB,
Northern Ireland, UK
http://www.ulstermuseum.org.uk/collections/natural_world/zoology/
Sublittoral marine species and habitat surveys, taxonomy of marine invertebrates, especially sessile ones, nudibranchs and echinoderms. Lead diver on the Northern Ireland Sublittoral Survey, (1983-86) and BioMar survey of Ireland (1993-97). Underwater photography and identification guides for diving biologists. Presently concentrating on Sponges and Rathlin Island, documenting and discovering biodiversity.

Katy Rigby
The Deep, Aquarium
Hull
HU1 4DP, UK
Tel: +44(0)1482 381000
Fax: +44(0)1482 381018
info@thedeep.co.uk
www.thedeep.co.uk

Dr Jean-Luc Solandt
Biodiversity Policy Officer
Marine Conservation Society
Wolf Business Park
Alton Road
Ross on Wye
HR9 5NB, UK
Tel: +44(0)1989 561 594
Fax:+44(0)1989 567 815
www.mcsuk.org
MCS aims to carry on with awareness raising about the Pink seafan and pink seafan anemone with a schools programme around the UK for 2006-7. However, this is dependent upon gaining funding. MCS aims to revisit sites where colonies were mapped at the Manacles in 2005 to find if there has been any recruitment of colonies. MCS aims to encourage student projects on the particle capture success of PSF colonies in captivity (aquaria). MCS will carry on working in close collaboration with Seasearch to publish a report on sightings of PSF colonies previously surveyed for the 2001-2002 report published by Seasearch/MCS. MCS aims to use information on the dead specimens collected by Steve Trewhella and others in Dorset, principally at Chesil Beach to campaign for adequate protection of the species in known hotspots.

Jason Hall-Spencer
Royal Society University Research Fellow
School Of Biological Sciences,
University of Plymouth,
Drake Circus,
Plymouth
PL4 8AA, UK
jason.hall-spencer@plymouth.ac.uk
www.plymouth.ac.uk
Jason studies the biogeography and functional ecology of calcified marine organisms in an effort to understand how our oceans are changing. He has focussed on cold-water coral damage because commercial interests in offshore oil reserves have prompted extensive surveys of the northeast Atlantic continental shelf break area over recent years.

Richard White
Devon Wildlife Trust
35-37 St David's Hill,
Exeter
EX4 4DA, UK
Tel: +44(0)1392 279244
www.devonwildlifetrust.org
Devon Wildlife Trust has been working in Lyme Bay for more than 15 years. Having originally been involved because of the effect of scallop dredging on rocky reefs, DWT successfully secured two voluntary closed areas by working closely with local fishermen. The monitoring results from this are available to download on our website and indicate some recovery of pink sea fan and scallops. Further monitoring of the closed area will continue in the summer of 2006. Our work has broadened significantly and we are now working on a marine spatial planning project that is seeking to map all habitats and activities in Lyme Bay. More details about this can be found in this newsletter or on our website.