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MSc (Ichthyology)

Research
Data Management
Information Management & Library
Natural Resource Management
Operational Support (technical)
Institutional Management
Decision Making & Policy
Technical Advice & Consulting

Biological Oceanography
Marine Ecology
Fisheries
Aquaculture
Research Support Services

Lucy Scott is a marine scientist specialising in marine data and information management, as well as Large Marine Ecosystems Science and Governance, with over 20 years’ experience in southern Africa, West and Central Africa and the Western Indian Ocean region. She has a Master’s degree in Ichthyology and has previously been the regional Data and Science Coordinator for the UNDP GEF Agulhas & Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystems (ASCLME) Project for which she coordinated regional science, data and information management activities and Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) development for the project in nine countries. She has most recently worked for the IOC/UNESCO Project Office for IODE as the Project Manager of the Ocean InfoHub Project.

She has in-country experience in South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Malawi, Comoros, Kenya, Seychelles, Mauritius, Maldives, Madagascar, Senegal and Ivory Coast on over 70 projects and programmes. These include project design, project management, stakeholder consultations, marine research expeditions (design, execution and data management), data management projects and the development of Geographic Information Systems, particularly for biodiversity, coastal resource mapping, aquaculture, conservation planning and long-term monitoring in both freshwater and marine ecosystems.

She has led or participated in data management and GIS atlas projects at several scales including the African Coastal and Marine Atlas, a project involving participants from 16 African, European and North American countries. She has recently worked on projects related to climate change and fisheries (Madagascar and Tanzania), capacity development for Integrated Oceans Management in West and Central Africa, a toolkit in support of Large Marine Ecosystems Project strategy, and project development for strengthening networks of Marine Protected Areas (Madagascar). She has participated in-person in over 160 international working meetings or events (as a speaker at over 150 international meetings); she is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Coastal Atlas Network (IODE, IOC/UNESCO), and a member of the Ecosystem Based Management (EBM) Working Group and Data & Information Working group for the GEF UNDP Project LME: LEARN.

Caribbean Sea
Arabian Sea
Mozambique Channel
South Atlantic Ocean
Indian Ocean

ORCID: 0000-0001-8240-0283

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