Mr Leigh Stevens
Marine Ecologist, Cawthron Institute, New Zealand

LEIGH STEVENS is a marine ecologist at the Cawthron Institute, a not-for-profit research organization based in Nelson, NZ.

He specializes in ecological impact assessment, and leads Cawthron's government funded research programme on oil spill response, planning and policy. Projects include writing dispersant use guidelines for the NZ National Oil Spill Response Plan, assessment of dispersant effectiveness and toxicity, development of rapid ecological assessment and monitoring protocols, and scenario-based ecological risk assessments to guide net environmental benefit analysis.

Leigh provided ecological and dispersant advice to the Maritime Safety Authority during the Jody F Millennium Tier 3 response.

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