WE ARE SAERI CHAIRMAN’S FOREWORD
The annual report shows an Institute In the accounts for our second year as an growing in confidence. The foundations independent charity clearly show: and fundamentals established last year • We have achieved a near break-even WE ARE SAERI | CHAIRMAN have been built upon successfully. budget in year 2 in the unrestricted The quality, dedication and talent of our funds, indicating sound financial staff remain central to the achievement of planning, management and tight our mission. It is their research excellence financial controls. and academic rigour that ensure our work • Careful cost controls resulting in a is valued to international standards. It is slight decrease in operating expenditure their dedication and approach that have (£370,000 to £360,000), which wage helped us build new partnerships and and other inflationary pressures extend our reach. It is their commitment managed by strict financial oversight. to delivery and customer service that • Greater sophistication in the delivery of have seen income growth through our contracted activities through our trading commercial subsidiary, SAERI (Falklands) subsidiary resulting in increased Limited. Through our scientists’ work we recharges and donations to the charity have discovered more about the the world which contribute to its core costs. around us and moved the frontiers of knowledge. In addition, our work has repeatedly been independently tested and both our closed This year we have identified new species projects (Darwin Cetaceans and Natural – one of which now bears SAERI’s name - Capital Assessment (NCA)) and our and delivered excellent science. We have Group’s accounts have received brought more world class researchers unqualified audits. Our key focus on to the Falkland Islands, and provided great science expertly delivered is research opportunities in more Overseas demonstrated by clean audits on closed Territories and other locations. Our work projects. We are getting the basics right has made real impact – not only in the and I record my thanks to all staff for their Falklands but – true to our name – across hard work and talent in achieving these the South Atlantic and even further afield. outcomes.
2 All images in this report ©SAERI unless otherwise stated. Front cover: ©Kelp Limpet Nacella mytilina ©SMSG. WE ARE SAERI | CHAIRMAN 3 - I am delighted that in all of this activity we that in all of this activityI am delighted we confidence the trust and maintained have and the of the Honourable Members Islands. of the Falkland Government is that our Group is no doubt There on their confidence and returns delivering and as the confidence support as well support of their predecessors. to look forward reason every have We not complacent. are We with confidence. and ambitious, hard-working are We grateful of the are We appreciative. dedication of our staff and the confidence of our funders, customers and our third look toward collaborators. As we of independent activity and continue year inter ever are we and develop, to grow partnerships with more ested in creating organisations and individuals who share and ethos, our vision, objectives the opportunity to welcome and would and exp and on the solid engage been created. foundations that have PETER JUDGE, MBE CHAIRMAN This additional Board capacity has allowed capacity has allowed This additional Board have We focus on strategy. some greater our executive focussed to reinforce leadership capacity with the expansion of with the Team our Senior Management - of a dedicated Deputy Director creation up our excellent Science – freeing Brickle, to Dr Paul Director, Executive continue his seemingly boundless SAERI ambition and activities develop to class science led from world and deliver Islands. the deeply beautiful Falkland senior He is supported by an excellent is optimistic of that team – and the Board with additional can be achieved more even capacity. We have welcomed new members to our new welcomed have We and strength – adding considerable Board to our Non-Executive depth of knowledge Board my I thank capacity. Board give each they colleagues for the time organisations and to their freely for for them to do it. the time allowing of expertise breadth an excellent have We add to this as we can continue to and we Committees look to constitute our Board the forthcoming year. over EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT
It is my pleasure to present our annual of the final project report. The Natural report for 2018/19. SAERI’s second year Capital Assessment Project funded by as a registered charity has gone well and the CSSF through the JNCC also came to WE ARE SAERI | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR the Institute continues to fulfil its role in a successful end this financial year where the South Atlantic and the Caribbean and notable successes included the therefore maintains its position as credible submission of 21 technical reports; scientific institute that provides economic 4 territory summary reports; 2 WebGIS benefit to the Falkland Islands. This year projects online; and a regional saw the appointment of new Trustees conference on St Helena. The project representing science and business. also has a number of peer reviewed papers This provides SAERI with a strong in preparation. SAERI has a number of leadership and governance force, ensuring other projects ongoing and more detail our science and the way we operate is to on them can be found in this report. the highest standards. We also continue to maintain a healthy project pipeline. It is really great to see 2018/19 saw the start of exciting new so many projects running in the Falkland projects as well as the natural end of Islands and overseas. SAERI’s project staff, others. The Darwin projects Falkland research students and our collaborations Islands / South Georgia Coastal Mapping have led to an increase in the number of project, Fine scaling the design of Falkland scientific papers again this year, with some Islands Marine Management Areas (MMA in high impact journals such as Nature Project), Soil Mapping Project and the and Proceedings of the National Academy Turks and Caicos Marine Spatial Planning of Sciences. This is particularly pleasing Project all started in 2018/2019. as our success as a research institute is The Darwin Dolphins of the Kelp project measured on the science we do and the finished with an excellent peer review impact that it has.
4 WE ARE SAERI | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 5 As always it is important to acknowledge it is important acknowledge to As always team that of the SAERI work the great deliver the institute running and who keep in a timely and professional our projects of our mucking in with other areas manner, grateful operation. I am also tremendously for Pelembe and Tara Bowers to Teresa ensuring that work hard their tremendous and policies are structures our governance and standards maintained to the highest opportunities through SAERI for creating and beyond. the South Atlantic look forward I updating to you Finally, forward move as we progress on SAERI’s year. though the next financial BRICKLE DR PAUL DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE Collaboration remains key to how we we to how key Collaboration remains operate – it is one of the building blocks of SAERI’s One research. for our future logistics is to provide important roles wanting support and advice to researchers and the South Atlantic to operate around continue to do this very well. we operate in challenging environments, We our staff ensure and collaboratorsand we conduct their science safely and cost-effectively. SAERI (Falklands) Ltd also seen an (Falklands) SAERI activity through in commercial increase Impact Assessments, Environmental data management fisheries consultancy, of consultancy and the generation The company baselines. environmental and has a work some great has produced as a special purpose deal of potential good allow will, in the future, which vehicle requests our subvention us to reduce of source a strong to FIG and provide funding, essential for our core unrestricted Group the SAERI operations. In summary, continues to do what it was supposed science whilst to do; conducting good benefiting the local economy. WHO WE ARE
SAERI is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, registered with the Charities Commission in England under number 1173105. SAERI is also recognised on the Register of Charities in the Falkland Islands under number C47.
WE ARE SAERI | WHO WE ARE THE SAERI CONSTITUTION The objects of the Charity are, for the public benefit:
1. the advancement of education and research 2. the advancement of environmental CE protection or improvement and IEN SC 3. the promotion of sustainable development*, in A particular (but not exclusively) by: AT D (a) the advancement of environmental protection & or improvement; and G (b) the advancement of education and research; IN S particularly (but not exclusively) in relation the N environment of the Falkland Islands and the E S South Atlantic region.
E T *Sustainable development means “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future
O generations to meet their own needs”.
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E R OUR AIMS
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To build capacity by MAINTAIN & attracting and retaining ENHANCE great staff, by increasing our grant successes and BROADEN To maintain and enhance enhanced logistical excellence through good support capabilities for To broaden and develop governance, sound financial visiting researchers. our Focal Areas (see p.10) practices, scientific assurance consolidated and held and ethics and a fully together through the functioning and engaged IMS-GIS Data Centre. Board of Trustees.
6 WE ARE SAERI | OUR BOARD 7 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE BRICKLE DR PAUL Dr Brickle is currently Director at the Executive as Reader in as well SAERI Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. Paul formed part of the Paul of Aberdeen. University reognised the which group initial task-and-finish in the institute need for a world-class research Islands and the wider South Atlantic Falkland and has led the Territories, Overseas organisation since its inception in 2012. He has the organisation a starting point of from taken and a small grant one-and-a-half employees to the organisation FIG from it is today. include the ecology and interests Paul’s Shelf, of the southern Patagonian oceanography andage biology, particularly the reproductive populationgrowth, dynamics and the population of marine species structure He also has inhabiting the waters of this region. marine parasites and their use as interest a keen the population biological tags for investigating Paul forms structure and migration of fish hosts. studies of marinepart of a number of trophic Falkland Islands and is interested the fish around and fisheries impact on in the environmental structures in communities. His interests trophic community marine ecology, include shallow of small isolated islandsecology and biogeography is particularly Paul those in the South Atlantic. Falkland an active scientific diving member of the Marine Surveys Group. Islands-based Shallow Peter was Attorney General- was Attorney Peter Territories for the Overseas Islands and of the Falkland South Georgia and the CHAIRMAN PETER JUDGE MBE The SAERI Board of Trustees comprises many partners who are key strategically and key partners are who comprises many of Trustees Board The SAERI sub-committees which Trustees and two of includes a Board The structure scientifically. best practice. science but also ensures international relationships not only leverage Peter holds a Bachelor’s degree and degree holds a Bachelor’s Peter and postgraduatea qualifications in English Law in International and European Degree Master’s Civil and Commercial He is a accredited Law. Society for of the Royal Mediator and Fellow the Arts. Peter was voted UK In House Lawyer of the UK In House Lawyer was voted Peter Magazine and was in 2010 by the Lawyer Year Birthday appointed MBE in HM The Queen’s Honours List 2012. Peter qualified as a lawyer over 20 years ago. years ago. 20 over qualified as a lawyer Peter as corporate/ M&A He began his career lawyer appointment level his first Board taking before has held a in the public sector in 2002. Peter – executive number of senior leadership roles – in the Public, Higher and non-executive sectors and Third since then. He is Education for his expertise internationally recognised in and an public public procurement public law, in the UK, EU and worked having governance further of projects. afield on a wide range South Sandwich Islands from 2014 -2017. South Sandwich Islands from OUR BOARD STUART PIERTNEY STUART WALLACE Stuart is Professor of Stuart is Founder and Molecular Ecology & Chairman of the Fortuna Evolution and the Director Group of companies in the of Research in the School Falkland Islands. of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen. In the course of his career he has been a member of The Islands Legislative WE ARE SAERI | WHO WE ARE His research interests are in using DNA variation Assembly and Executive Council and for eight years among individuals, populations and species to was a member of the Board of the Falkland Islands gain novel insight into the behaviour, evolution, Development Corporation. Stuart was Chairman conservation and biology of a broad range of of the Public Accounts Committee for two years animals from both marine and terrestrial following its establishing legislation. habitats. He has published over 150 articles in scientific journals as well as several book He is currently also Chairman of the Falkland contributions. Islands Fishing Companies Association. His free time interests include trout fishing, gardening He has been elected as Fellow of a number and South Atlantic Politics. of learned societies, and sits on the editorial boards of several international scientific journals. He also Chairs key national and international TEAL RILEY research grant awarding bodies. Teal Riley has almost 30 years’ experience in the In his spare time, he enjoys diving, climbing, geology and geochemistry of photography and beer. many aspects of continental and oceanic volcanism. He has worked for the British Antarctic Survey for almost 25 years and has been involved in 16 Antarctic field seasons and has led two marine geology/geophysics cruises in the Scotia Sea. His recent research has investigated the origins of silicic volcanism in the Antarctic Peninsula and Patagonian South America, the geochronology and geochemistry of Gondwana break-up magmatism, and volcanism of the South Sandwich intra-oceanic island arc. He has over 70 publications since 1997 in refereed journals.
8 WE ARE SAERI | OUR BOARD 9 ANDREW GAULE ANDREW has been the Andrew and Director of Policy for Development Economic Islands the Falkland since Government 2019. November His responsibilities include not only Policy and Policy include not only His responsibilities of but also oversight Development Economic Public Health and National the Environment, units. Archive Andrew Kingdom, Born and raised in the United he where to Canada in his mid-twenties moved Northwest raised a family in the Canadian in years After for many working Territories. Andrew in the NWT, economic development he held a in 2008 where to Yukon moved number of posts with the federal Canadian Agency Development Northern Economic of Economic including that of Manager of as Director as well for Yukon, Development andBusiness and Industry Development with the Director of Regional Development Department of Government’s Territorial Development. Economic the from holds a Joint Honours Degree Andrew of Bristol in HistoryUniversity and Economic He also holds a Master’s and Social History. the Business Administration from in Degree of Athabasca. University walking, reading, time, he enjoys In his spare chess. watching EPL football and playing RICHARD SANDERS RICHARD serving is currently Richard of the ICOS as the Director centre Ocean Thematic (the based at NORCE Centre) Norwegian Research Norway and as ain Bergen senior scientist at the UK National (NOC), a position he has Centre Oceanography was the to that he held since August 2019. Prior chair of the NOC Ocean Biogeochemistry and 2012 and 2019, a between group Ecosystems 2000 and scientist in NOC between research 2012 and and graduatea PhD student researcher in the department EnvironmentalSciences of at and 1993 of East Anglia between the University in the interests research 2000. He hasbroad the biologicalocean carbon cycle including carbon pump, the mechanisms by which the sea surface carbon biologically, ocean stores from of organic Carbon fluxes carbon fluxes, of and the storage land to ocean via rivers carbon on land in coastal habitats. Recently Falkland Islands he undertook in the fieldwork associated with the latter elements. FORWARD LOOK
SAERI’S VISION SAERI’S MISSION
WE ARE SAERI | FORWARD LOOK To deliver world-class environmental SAERI advances environmental research from the Falkland Islands that understanding in the territories and countries informs the effective stewardship of in which it operates through partnerships, our planet. Research Institutes and Centres to deliver research excellence and innovative science leadership. We use our unique expertise to share, communicate and apply our skills and findings and find innovative solutions to common environmental challenges.
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT YEAR
N E D H E T V G E N L E O R P T S SAERI 5 YEAR (FALKLANDS LTD) STRATEGY
DEPUTY DIRECTOR SCIENCE
RECRUIT
10 WE ARE SAERI | FORWARD LOOK 11 , Black-browed Chloraea gaudichaudii, Black-browed orchid coastline, Gaudichaud’s South Georgia
Clockwise from top left:Clockwise from We are well on the way to producing the first coastal habitat maps of both the Falkland Islands maps of both the the first coastal habitat to producing on the way well are We of sections footage of the coasts of both amazing drone taken have and South Georgia, and 35 adult females and tracked work project paper of our GAP published a synthesis We OTs. 2.0 and MOVE) projects (BEST regional EU-funded seals project. Our two our fur through and our very successful regional our focus on the South Atlantic region continue to strengthen in a ground-breaking culminating project was completed this year, Natural Capital Assessment wealth of outputs. the in St. Helena which shared conference regional ’first’ We are humbled by the positive feedback from our donors and stakeholders for our donors and stakeholders feedback from by the positive humbled are We our projects implementation. Albatross and chick, Soil Mapping Project Manager Steffi Carter and Project Partner Anne D. Jungblut from the D. Jungblut from Anne Partner Manager Steffi Carter and and chick, Soil Mapping Project Project Albatross DNA analyses. microbiological Islands for Dolphin, Falkland History Museum sampling tussac peat at Cape Natural OPERATIONAL REVIEW OPERATIONAL PATHWAYS TO IMPACT
SAERI continues to have a significant impact on Falkland Islands and South Atlantic Science. It is important to highlight how our science and work help to inform policy and decision making across the areas we work. We also highlight WE ARE SAERI | PATHWAYS TO IMPACT some of the exciting discoveries made during this year.
OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS YEAR In its second year of independence from its parent FIG, SAERI has sustained continued growth in the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic and Caribbean. SAERI continues to be an economic multiplier for the Falkland Islands. SAERI has transformed Falkland Islands and South Atlantic research by carrying out marine and terrestrial research across the SAOTs and, through logistics and guidance, and by enabling science to be conducted safely and effectively by our partners and collaborators. The areas we operate in are isolated and difficult to access and work in. An international science demand survey conducted by SAERI and FIG resulted in responses from 161 international scientists who confirmed the Falkland Islands as a critical location for conducting regionally and globally important science across many disciplines. The Falkland Islands has as many, if not more, significant unique selling points compared with other sub-Antarctic locations, in terms of regional and globally significant science including ‘whole earth system science’. The survey was also de signed to understand the barriers to researchers wanting to conduct their science in the Islands. The most important responses included laboratory facilities in Stanley, accom modation, logistics support, internet and access to and around the islands when they required it. This became the genesis for science component of FIG’s Antarctic Gateway concept. The presence of a dedicated, well equipped facility would lead to economic and reputational benefits for the Islands as a result of the enhanced service offered and the consequent increase in the number of researchers spending money in the community. Further work is planned to investigate the feasibility of such a science facility. The SAERI model is seen as a success among a number of OTs and this has led to the creation of sister institutes, the Mid-Atlantic Environmental Research Institute in Anguilla and the St Helena Research Institute in partnership with SAERI. 12 Sooty Shearwaters amassing off Kidney Island. SAERI, in collaboration, with the JNCC, University of Dundee, University of Santa Thomas, the University of Chile and the University of Magallanes created the Austral Earth Observation Alliance (AEOA). This virtual centre of excellence to bring together providers and users of EO enabling them to work together on common problems to exploit EO in the South Atlantic and South American region. The Centre will include researchers, government bodies, NGOs, and the private sector. The Southern Cone WE ARE SAERI | PATHWAYS TO IMPACT and South Atlantic Islands have small populations, large land masses and/or seascapes, are remote and therefore expensive to mobilise to and work in. Technology developments in Earth Observation have allowed for these remote areas to be studied and monitored SAERI’s Defra funded Darwin Plus Coastal Mapping project has been a huge success not only in creating much needed baseline on the coastal margins of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia but has also been important in creating a legacy for future monitoring, leading many positive spin offs to conservation, land use management, agriculture and archaeology. As new species of trematode parasite (Steringotrema) from the New Zealand sole was described and published in Systematic Parasitology. SAERI helped further inform the management of the Ascension Island’s MPA by examining the residency and reproductive status of yellowfin tuna there.
Above: Diver collecting data in the kelp forest. ©SMSG 14 WE ARE SAERI | PATHWAYS TO IMPACT
Left: Southern Elephant Seal Right: Imperial Shag
This financial year saw the graduation of PhD students Jessica Jones and Jacob Hargreaves. Jess’s PhD and papers have shed important light onto the population connectivity of the loliginid squid Doryteuthis gahi in the Falkland Islands and also examined the mechanism for temporal connectivity between distinct cohorts that are exploited by the fishery in two separate seasons. Jacob, on the other hand, examined the fungal biodiversity and ecology of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. Among a number of discoveries Jacob’s work points to the importance of dark septate endophytic (DSE) fungi in filling the role of mycorrhizal fungi in the region. This includes DSE being important for healthy tussac. SAERI has 23 papers published in peer reviewed publications this year including in high impact journals such as Current Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature. In addition, SAERI generated 39 notable unpublished reports on subjects varying from the Natural Capital Assessment of tourism in South Atlantic OTs, carbon storage sequestration by benthos in Ascension Island, Giant Kelp ‘Blue carbon’ storage and sequestration value in the Falkland Islands, Cultural Ecosystem Services in the Island of St. Helena, Illex value chains among many more. Published and peer reviewed papers are listed in this annual report. Please contact [email protected] for copies if you would like to read more.
Most of our ongoing projects will have similar impact and we will report on those in our next annual report. 15 OUR YEAR IN REVIEW
Where our first year provided a solid foundation for a year of consolidation and bedding down of our operations, this past year saw us gain ground with our grants, close off some large and important projects which provide a springboard WE ARE SAERI | OUR YEAR IN REVIEW for further research and an expansion of our range of expertise, and move forward with our environmental consultancy work: crucial to develop in order to provide sustainable funding of our core costs. We successfully gained a grant to look at marine spatial planning in the Caribbean – the Turks and Caicos Islands – fulfilling our desire to expand our territory-to-territory partnerships and signed significant MOUs with the JNCC and the NNF, providing the framework for future partnerships.
We successfully supported the creation of a secondment to the University of Dundee sister institute in Anguilla, made great strides where the partnership developed ideas in supporting the establishment of another around the development of cross- in St Helena and along with UK and Chilean disciplinary data management tools partners launched the Austral Earth Observation Alliance (AEOA) developing a Our students did remarkably well, with virtual centre of excellence to bring together Katie Brigden and Jess Jones graduating in providers and users of Earth Observation this year, and we welcomed Amanda (EO) enabling them to work together on Kuepfer and Jess Minett into the SAERI common problems to exploit EO in the fold, with Amanda researching the South Atlantic and South American region. influence of fisheries on albatross foraging and diet and Jess looking at the population Our Data Science saw its international of brown trout in the Falklands: an invasive relationships culminate in a year-long species that has thrived since its introduction.
£ £ PEER REVIEWED PHD EXTERNALLY SCIENTIFIC PAPERS FUNDED RESEARCH 23 IN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 9 10 PROJECTS JOURNALS
16 At Board level, we bid adieu to one of our strategic forward look with the Board founding members, Michael Poole, to whom Members and aim to generate our 5-year we remain indebted for his insight and strategy, to guide the ship annually on its WE ARE SAERI | OUR YEAR IN REVIEW dedication in our founding phase. In turn course. we welcomed three friends to our Board, whom we feel sure will provide us with their Our second year has continued to be fruitful, scientific expertise, their guidance and their with significant steps taken to ensure that we enthusiasm so necessary for a fledgling have a solid base to continue operations well institute such as ours. We workshopped our into the future.
“The Economic Development Strategy for the Falkland Islands in July 2017. Since then the Islands highlights the importance of organisation has grown in both its breadth developing new economic activities to diversify and scale at a pleasing rate. Not only have the economy and generate new income they increased the rate of discovery and streams to reduce reliance on the core sectors science in the Falkland Islands – SAERI has of agriculture, fishing and tourism.The SAERI also increased the credibility exposure and proposal in 2011 offered an opportunity potential of the Falkland Islands as an to develop a sustainable knowledge-based important location to do science of significant activity – and one which has a clear synergy regional and global importance. This has with the Islands’ strengths in the environment, tangible benefits / impacts to the Falklands sustainable use of natural resources and through increased economic activity and also conservation. SAERI is doing the job it was by showcasing our unique, diverse and highly meant to do. The organisation and its productive environments. I look forward to subsidiary, SAERI (Falklands) Ltd, saw its following SAERI’s progress over the next year.” transition from a Falklands Islands Government Department to a registered Barry Rowlands - Chief Executive, Charity in England and Wales and the Falkland Islands Government
Above: Cape Pembroke, Falkland Islands. 17 2018-19 IS SAERI’S SECOND FULL YEAR OF OPERATION WHICH HAS ALLOWED US TO FOCUS MORE ON DEVELOPMENT AND CONSOLIDATION AFTER HAVING SUCCESSFULLY ESTABLISHED THE INDEPENDENT ENTITY IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
THIS YEAR'S FIVE PRIORITY OBJECTIVES WERE: WE ARE SAERI | OUR YEAR IN REVIEW 1 2 A FULL BOARD OF TRUSTEES STRATEGIC FORWARD VIEW
• Originating from solid partnership Through a Board workshop aiming to: history with SAERI; • Ensure the vision, mission and values • Associated with organisations with a remain relevant strong partnership history • Assist frame the organisation with • Able to provide valuable inputs into guidance into size, performance and both SAERI’s strategy and the science governance objectives; and it undertakes; • Ensure the structure remains appropriate • Able to fulfil a functional role. to deliver the strategy.
3 4 PERFORMANCE A MORE STRUCTURED APPROACH MANAGEMENT TO FUNDRAISING A framework was agreed for • Search and successful recruitment of a Deputy performance management, Director – Science to be applied consistently • Better use of market scanning tools for grants throughout the organisation to • Better structure and use of internal resources and monitor, review and assess. external partnership for grant proposals
5 ENHANCED FOCUS ON SAERI (FALKLANDS) LIMITED (SFL) • Increased pool of high-level consultants • Closer working between SFL and SAERI • 20% increase in income to SAERI from SFL through recoveries and donations Caption: Southern Elephant Seal pup
18 WE ARE SAERI | ACADEMIC REVIEW 19 (Dissostichus eleginoides, Smitt(Dissostichus around the sub-Antarctic island of South the sub-Antarctic 1898) around patterns and Spatial and temporal Georgia: spanning two decades of data processes PhD Katie graduated in June 2019. Katie’s and areas on spawning light shed new dynamics of the Patagonian reproductive work South Georgia. Her toothfish around a number of high impact in peerhas resulted papers. reviewed BUSBRIDGE TOM of Understanding the decline and recovery fisheries largest one of the South Atlantic’s (southern blue whiting). Southern blue whiting (Micromesistius once contributed to the australis) australis largest fisheryAtlantic in the South with peak annual landings tonnes in 1983. of 258.000 of high intensityContinued levels in a dramatic decrease exploitation resulted abundance and subsequently in the in overall fishery collapsing 2004-2007. between which project is aimed at investigating Tom’s factors to this decline in biomass contributed by elucidating on certain aspects of the life history of southern blue whiting. The results future this project should help improve from in is now of this species. Tom management work onyear and has completed the his final chapters of his thesis.research the first two The first of these chapters (which is currently KATIE BRIGDEN KATIE of Patagonian ecology The reproductive toothfish Highlight of 2018: had the chance to I have During this year conferences; national posters at two present the Marine Alliance for Science and annual in Scotland (MASTS) Technology in Octoberscience meeting in Glasgow 2018 Society annualand the British Phycology science meeting in Oban in January 2019. opportunitythe presentto got also I year This to the public at a Pecha intertidalmy research hosted event pubic engagement Kucha A form of of Aberdeen. by the University slides andlightning talk, limited to twenty seconds per slide, I found thisonly twenty rewarding. experience incredibly EMMA BEATON community the invertebrate Examining and shallow benthic of the intertidal structure Islands. the Falkland around environments the relationshipThis PhD also aims to study of flora and extent the seaweed between southern Southdeglaciation of of regions America. Intertidalcompleted was fieldwork in April 2018, with dataquadrat analysis of 2019. DNAphotos completed by spring to assess the algal employed was barcoding Atlantic, withflora of the southern South molecular analyses completed in December analyses2018 and biogeographical beginning in June 2019. The first chapter of examining benthic communities, this PhD, 2019 and submittedwas completed in May for publication in June 2019. ACADEMIC REVIEW: SAERI PHD STUDENTS SAERI REVIEW: ACADEMIC under review for publication) determined the timing and duration of metamorphosis in southern blue whiting, linking their planktonic larval phase with the mesopelagic juvenile phase. The second research chapter determined the contribution of the two known WE ARE SAERI | ACADEMIC REVIEW spawning grounds for southern blue whiting (one inside and one outside of Falkland Above: Tussac grass Islands waters) to the Falkland Islands fishery. This chapter is currently being written up as a region, species of Phialocephala (including P. manuscript for publication. The next chapter fortinii) were isolated from native plant roots. will investigate the effects of high levels of long In addition, fungal communities of South term exploitation on the population dynamics Georgia, tussac roots and penguin nest of the southern blue whiting fish stock in Falk- sites were also characterized using various land Islands waters. The analyses here will look techniques, and finally a new rust pathogen at changes in life history parameters, spawning was discovered infecting the endangered, time and area (using hot-spot analyses), and endemic plant, Nastanthus falklandicus. levels of recruitment since the inception of the Some highlights of July 2018 – June 2019 fishery in the late 1970s. were visiting the Falkland Islands for the last time with my project to complete sampling in JACOB HARGREAVES February 2019 and completing all lab work The Fungal Biodiversity of the Falkland Islands in June 2019. and South Georgia My project was centered around understanding EMMA HARTE the fungal community diversity of various Dispersal of Patagonian toothfish (Dissos- regions in the Falkland Islands and South tichus eleginoides) eggs and larvae on the Georgia. To achieve this, I carried out fungal Falkland Island Plateau eDNA metabarcoding, microscopy of native Emma is a MSc student working on model- root samples and live culturing of fungal ling the egg and larval dispersal of toothfish isolates from plant material. In the end we from the Drake Passage onto the Patago- discovered a complex and spatially nian Shelf. Emma is also ascertaining the heterogeneous communities of fungi, which buoyancy of toothfish eggs collected from showed correlations to the above ground an aquaculture facility in the Falkland Islands populations. The importance of dark septate in order to provide input parameters for the endophytic (DSE) fungi was suggested in dispersal models. Emma is due to finish in filling the role of mycorrhizal fungi in this June 2020. 20 WE ARE SAERI | ACADEMIC REVIEW 21 in wing size and shape, consistent with the and shape, consistent in wing size butterflies adaptating to windyFalkland cytheris populationsconditions. Both of Y. an ability to adapt to their environment,showed butterfly hope that the Falkland which gives change.will be able to cope with climate of the and small size The fragentary nature populations, with the together Falkland dependence on Viola plants at thebutterfly’s a cause for concern. larval however, are, stage, Nigel Haywood © Yramea cytheris field work in the Falkland Islands. cytheris field work in the Above: Yramea NIGEL HAYWOOD between the genetic relationship Investigating Island and Latin American the Falkland cytheris. Yramea populations of on wing been immersed in work also I have populations The two proved shape. and claw some with to be very close genetically, butterflies identical DNA in each showing investigated. genes patterns in the three clear differences in however, were, There JESSICA JONES Highlight of 2018: Population connectivity of a commercial loliginid On the 17th December my thesis was squid (Doryteuthis gahi) submitted for consideration. In February my This project aimed to better understand second manuscript was accepted for population and connectivity of D. gahi. publication in Marine and Freshwater Research Ontogenetic migrations of spawning cohorts and in March my third manuscript was accepted WE ARE SAERI | ACADEMIC REVIEW were confirmed by trace element analysis of to Marine Biology. My Viva was conducted in statoliths (LA ICP-MS). High resolution Aberdeen on 10th April and I passed with no elemental chronologies were developed corrections. I have since started a position as which were temporally stable over two Post-Doctoral researcher with the Falkland consecutive years. Large scale connectivity Islands Fisheries Department on the same species. was investigated by comparing soft body measurements, meristic characters and AMANDA KUEPFER statolith outlines between populations of D. My PhD project aims to provide an improved gahi from FI waters and Peru. LDA indicated understanding of the complex seabird- high classification success to region and fishery relationship in the Falkland Islands inconsistencies were found between the and across the wider Patagonian Shelf. original taxonomic species description Increase in the world’s most important and the Peruvian population. This aligns black-browed albatross population has been with recent genetic evidence of two highly speculated to be partly the result of easy divergent groups within the species range. feeding opportunities created by discards Body shape within FI waters was investigated from trawl fisheries. However, scientific using geometric morphometrics, and a new evidence of this relationship remains limited. ‘superbull’ morphotype was described. The function of this morphotype was Project Objectives investigated. This morphotype is thought to • Improved understanding of black-browed temporally and spatially contribute towards albatross diet using complementary connectivity within this species. approaches • Improved understanding of fine-scale foraging behaviour using novel technology
Highlights 2018-2019 • Complementary dietary samples for conventional stomach content analysis and stable isotope analysis were collected Above: Doryteuthis gahi statolith on New Island and Steeple Jason Island in 22 WE ARE SAERI | ACADEMIC REVIEW 23 brown trout and native galaxiids native and native (three trout brown Aplochiton Aplochiton zebra, species are Galaxiastaeniatus and maculatus), (2) to and impacts of competition assess the level galaxiids, (3) to the native on trout of brown and levels estimate the patterns of movement different and between rivers flow of gene in the Falklands. trout populations of brown using state of these questions I am address To the art methods including SNP genotyping, tracking andstable isotope analysis, acoustic My DNA (eDNA) analysis. environmental (1) tagging were main highlights of 2018/2019 2018 in October/November trout 30 brown in receivers of acoustic an array and deploying Falklands, (2) using estuaries the five around designed primers to amplify both A.newly to trout and A. taeniatus and brown zebra assess their distribution based on DNA from water samples and extracting DNA from samples and determinethese environmental in 22 sampled and overlap rivers whether they the Falklands. ponds around
(until June 2022). securing it a further of ESB funding 3 years The PhD project was ring-fenced by FIG, The PhD project was ring-fenced work in the season of 2020/2021. in the season work camera tracking successfully paved the way paved camera tracking successfully camera tracking comprehensive for more In December 2019, a pilot study involving study involving In December 2019, a pilot Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility, over Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility, at the facility in September. Analytical Life Support by the NERC analysed 600 stable isotope samples were Following a successful application for a successful application Following colony variation.colony information on inter-annualinformation and inter- to a multi-year dataset, providing to a multi-year February and March 2019. The data adds and March February JESS MINETT invasion Islands: in the Falkland trout Brown genetic and ecology, population structure diversity. (1) to determine theMy project aims are abundance and distribution of the invasive
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1) Anglade T, Randhawa HS (2018) Gaining insights into the ecological role of the New Zealand sole (Peltorhamphus novaezeelandiae) through parasites. Journal of Helminthology 92: 187-196 doi 10.1017/s0022149x17000323
WE ARE SAERI | PUBLISHED PAPERS 2) Auge AA, Dias MP, Lascelles B, Baylis AMM, Black A, Boersma PD, Catry P, Crofts S, Galimberti F, Granadeiro JP, Hedd A, Ludynia K, Masello JF, Montevecchi W, Phillips RA, Puetz K, Quillfeldt P, Rebstock GA, Sanvito S, Staniland IJ, Stanworth A, Thompson D, Tierney M, Trathan PN, Croxall JP (2018a) Framework for mapping key areas for marine megafauna to inform Marine Spatial Planning: The Falkland Islands case study. Marine Policy 92: 61-72 doi 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.02.017 3) Auge AA, Otley H, Rendell N, Frans VF (2018b) Spatial distribution of cetacean strandings in the Falkland Islands to define monitoring opportunities. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 19: 1-7 4) Barnes DKA, Morley SA, Bell J, Brewin P, Brigden K, Collins M, Glass T, Goodall -Copestake WP, Henry L, Laptikhovsky V, Piechaud N, Richardson A, Rose P, Sands CJ, Schofield A, Shreeve R, Small A, Stamford T, Taylor B (2018) Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas. Current Biology 28: R1137-R1138 doi 10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.064 5) Baylis AMM, Tierney M, Orben RA, Staniland IJ, Brickle P (2018a) Geographic variation in the foraging behaviour of South American fur seals. Marine Ecology Progress Series 596: 233-245 doi 10.3354/meps12557 6) Bennett J, Randhawa HS (2019) Diet composition of New Zealand's endemic rough skate, Zearaja nasuta. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 53: 162-168 doi 10.1080/00288330.2018.1541813 7) Costa M, Fumagalli M, Cesario A (2019) Review of Cetaceans in the Red Sea. In: Rasul NMA, Stewart ICF (eds) Oceanographic and Biological Aspects of the Red Sea, pp 281-303 8) Fumagalli M, Cesario A, Costa M (2019a) Where Dolphins Sleep: Resting Areas in the Red Sea. In: Rasul NMA, Stewart ICF (eds) Oceanographic and Biological Aspects of the Red Sea, pp 305-326 9) Fumagalli M, Cesario A, Costa M, di Sciara GN, Harraway J, Slooten E (2019b) Population ecology and the management of whale watching operations on a data-deficient dolphin population. Ecology and Evolution 9: 10442-10456 doi 10.1002/ece3.5565 24 WE ARE SAERI | PUBLISHED PAPERS 25
novaezeelandiae Gunther off Kaka point in the Catlins, South Peltorhamphus Fumagalli M, Cesario A, Costa M, Harraway J, di Sciara GN, Slooten E (2018) J, di Sciara GN, Slooten M, Cesario A, Costa M, Harraway Fumagalli Society to human interactions. of spinner dolphins Royal responses Behavioural 5 doi 10.1098/rsos.172044 Open Science Q da Costa M, Crowley L, DS, Kregting Brickle P, DJ, Green Boots B, Blockley re first and a microplastics of sampling(2018) A comparison for seawater methods Islands. port Ascension and Falkland litter in coastal waters of of the microplastic doi 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.11.004 Bulletin 137: 695-701 Marine Pollution nesting P (2018) The fungal ecology of seabird van West J, Brickle P, Hargreaves 36: Ecology Fungal Islands mycoparasites. indicates a niche for sites in the Falkland 99-108 doi 10.1016/j.funeco.2018.08.005 'Superbull' Shcherbich ZN, Arkhipkin AI (2019a) P, GJ, Brickle Jones JB, Pierce their appearance within the and what drives play do they males: what role 70: Research Shelf population? Marine and Freshwater Doryteuthis gahi Patagonian 1805-1817 doi 10.1071/mf18285 Shcherbich ZN, FC, Kuepper P, Brickle F, GJ, Saborido-Rey Jones JB, Pierce and its possible in body shape change Arkhipkin AI (2019b) Size-dependent Atlantic. squid (Doryteuthis gahi) in the Southwest in the Patagonian ecological role Marine Biology 166 doi 10.1007/s00227-019-3501-9 site fidelity in male Australian (2018) Foraging Arnould JPY AMM, Baylis TC, Knox fur seals. Marine Biology 165 doi 10.1007/s00227-018-3368-1 Callahan DL, (2019) Blubber L, AMM, Arnould JPY Kernaleguen TC, Baylis Knox in the diet of male Australian fur seals. Marine Biology variation fatty acids reveal 166 doi 10.1007/s00227-019-3552-y H (2018) Use of otolith shape to inform Randhawa PE, Brickle P, Lee B, Brewin toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) in the south- in Patagonian stock structure doi 10.1071/ 69: 1238-1247 Research Marine and Freshwater Atlantic. western Neat F (2018) P, JA, Duran Munoz Pham CK, Pinto C, Golding N, Ardron Morato T, Marine Eco Vulnerable A Multi Criteria Assessment Method for Identifying in Marine Science 5 doi 10.3389/ systems in the North-East Frontiers Atlantic. species of HS (2018) A new Randhawa de Leon G, Anglade T, Perez-Ponce Zealand the New from Fellodistomidae) 1911 (Trematoda: Odhner, Steringotrema 10) 11) 12) 13) 14) 15) 16) 17) mf17327 18) fmars.2018.00460 19) sole Island, New Zealand. Systematic Parasitology 95: 213-222 doi 10.1007/s11230-018- 9773-5 20) Queiroz N, Humphries NE, Couto A, Vedor M, da Costa I, Sequeira AMM, Mucientes G, Santos AM, Abascal FJ, Abercrombie DL, Abrantes K, Acuna- Marrero D, Afonso AS, Afonso P, Anders D, Araujo G, Arauz R, Bach P, Barnett A, Bernal D, Berumen ML, Lion SB, Bezerra NPA, Blaison AV, Block BA, Bond ME, WE ARE SAERI | PUBLISHED PAPERS Bonfil R, Bradford RW, Braun CD, Brooks EJ, Brooks A, Brown J, Bruce BD, Byrne ME, Campana SE, Carlisle AB, Chapman DD, Chapple TK, Chisholm J, Clarke CR, Clua EG, Cochran JEM, Crochelet EC, Dagorn L, Daly R, Cortes DD, Doyle TK, Drew M, Duffy CAJ, Erikson T, Espinoza E, Ferreira LC, Ferretti F, Filmalter JD, Fischer GC, Fitzpatrick R, Fontes J, Forget F, Fowler M, Francis MP, Gallagher AJ, Gennari E, Goldsworthy SD, Gollock MJ, Green JR, Gustafson JA, Guttridge TL, Guzman HM, Hammerschlag N, Harman L, Hazin FHV, Heard M, Hearn AR, Holdsworth JC, Holmes BJ, Howey LA, Hoyos M, Hueter RE, Hussey NE, Huveneers C, Irion DT, Jacoby DMP, Jewell OJD, Johnson R, Jordan LKB, Jorgensen SJ, Joyce W, Daly CAK, Ketchum JT, Klimley AP, Kock AA, Koen P, Ladino F, Lana FO, Lea JSE, Llewellyn F, Lyon WS, MacDonnell A, Macena BCL, Marshall H, McAllister JD, McAuley R, Meyer MA, Morris JJ, Nelson ER, Papastamatiou YP, Patterson TA, Penaherrera-Palma C, Pepperell JG, Pierce SJ, Poisson F, Quintero LM, Richardson AJ, Rogers PJ, Rohner CA, Rowat DRL, Samoilys M, Semmens JM, Sheaves M, Shillinger G, Shivji M, Singh S, Skomal GB, Smale MJ, Snyders LB, Soler G, Soria M, Stehfest KM, Stevens JD, Thorrold SR, Tolotti MT, Towner A, Travassos P, Tyminski JP, Vandeperre F, Vaudo JJ, Watanabe YY, Weber SB, Wetherbee BM, White TD, Williams S, Zarate PM, Harcourt R, Hays GC, Meekan MG, Thums M, Irigoien X, Eguiluz VM, Duarte CM, Sousa LL, Simpson SJ, Southall EJ, Sims DW (2019) Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries. Nature 572: 461-+ doi 10.1038/s41586-019-1444-4 21) Rasmussen TK, Randhawa HS (2018) Host diet influences parasite diversity: a case study looking at tapeworm diversity among sharks. Marine Ecology Progress Series 605: 1-16 doi 10.3354/meps12751 22) Richardson AJ, Downes KJ, Nolan ET, Brickle P, Brown J, Weber N, Weber SB (2018) Residency and reproductive status of yellowfin tuna in a proposed large-scale pelagic marine protected area. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 28: 1308-1316 doi 10.1002/aqc.2936
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Acorn Tourism, Repetto, D., Smith, N., (2018) South Atlantic Natural Capital Natural Capital Smith, N., (2018) South Atlantic Repetto, D., Acorn Tourism, Assessment. South Atlantic da Cunha Tourism Tristan Assessment Project: Institute Report. Research Environmental Assessment for Ascension Island. South Atlantic Potential Acorn (2019) Tourism Institute Report. In draft Research Environmental sequestration of carbon storage N. (2019) Valuation Sands. C. Smith, Barnes, D., EEZ South Atlantic Environmental and social cost by benthos in Ascension island’s Islands. In draft Institute, Stanley, Falkland Research ‘Blue carbon’ Giant kelp (2017), Pelembe, and T. H. Baker I. Marengo, Bayley, D.T.I Conservation Islands. Joint Nature and sequestration value in the Falkland storage Institute Research Committee and South Atlantic Environmental K., H., Hodgson, B., Erni-Cassola, Rees, S., (2018). G., Howell, Bianca, G., Tillin ServicesAscension Island Report. Natural Capital Assessment: Marine Ecosystem Institute. Research Atlantic Environmental the South for Prepared da Cunha Fish, R., in Tristan of Nature Smith, N., (2019) , The value Bormpoudakis, D., in draft Falklands Institute, Stanley, Research South Atlantic Environmental Sequeira AMM, Rodriguez JP, Eguiluz VM, Harcourt R, Hindell M, Sims DW, R, Harcourt Eguiluz VM, Hindell M, Sims DW, Rodriguez JP, Sequeira AMM, MR, GC, Heupel Hays LC, J, Ferreira Fernandez-Gracia Duarte DP, CM, Costa Burns J, ML, AMM, Berumen Baylis Braun CD, A, Bailleul F, Avenn Meekan MG, A, Friedlaender MJ, Campbell R,Caley Clua Carmichael RH, E, Einoder LD, Hammerschlag N, D, C, Gunn J, Hamer Guinet SD, Goldsworthy Goebel ME, A, LA, Humphries NE, Lea MA, LowtherHammill M, Huckstadt A, Mackay L, J, McLeay K, CR, McMahond E, McKenzie McHuron Mengersenv Shaffer SA, N, Robinson PW, Queiroz B, AM, Page Muelbert MMC, Pagano R, M, Wells S, Weise SR, GB, Thorrold Villegas-Amtmann Shivji M, Skomal of marine B, Thums M (2018) Convergence B, Wiebkin A, Wienecke Wetherbee of the Proceedings patterns in coastal and open oceans. megafauna movement of America 115: 3072-3077 doi of Sciences of the United States National Academy 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) UNPUBLISHED PAPERS 23) 10.1073/pnas.1716137115 8) Bormpoudakis, D., Fish, R., Leo, D., Smith, N., (2019) , Cultural Ecosystem Services in the Island of St. Helena South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, Stanley, Falklands in draft 9) Bormpoudakis, D., Fish, R., Smith, N., (2019) , Cultural Ecosystem Services in the Falkland Islands South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, Stanley, Falklands
WE ARE SAERI | UNPUBLISHED PAPERS in draft 10) Bormpoudakis, D., Fish, R., (2019) , Mapping cultural ecosystem and heritage services in St. Helena Island using geo-located social media South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, Stanley, Falklands in draft 11) Brewin, P., (2018) Fisheries data collection and integration strategy for underpinning sustainable fisheries management in Montserrat. SAERI Report for the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. 12) Canelas, J., Fish, R., Smith, N., (2019) , Cultural Ecosystem Services on Ascension island South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, Stanley, Falklands in draft 14) Doyle, A., Edwards, D., Gregory, A., Brewin, P. & Brickle, P. (2017). T2T Montserrat; a guide to fisheries data collection and biological sampling. JNCC. 15) Edwards, D. Doyle, A. Brickle, P. Brewin, P. (2017). T2T Montserrat Fisheries Data Workshop report. JNCC 16) Harte, M., Watson, J., (2019) Closing the gap: Adding value to Falkland Island Fisheries through the collective management of shared stocks. South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, Stanley, Falkland Islands. In draft 17) Harte M, Borberg J and Sylvia G. (2018). Argentine shortfin squid (Illex argentines) value chain analysis with an emphasis on the Falkland Islands. South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, Stanley, Falkland Islands. In draft 18) Marengo, I., Cherrett, S., Smith, N., (2018) South Atlantic Natural Capital Assessment Project: Constraints Mapping to identify suitable landfill sites on St. Helena. South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute Report. 19) Marengo, I. (2018) Falkland Islands Broad Scale Habitat Map from Earth Observation Techniques. South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute Report 20) McVittie, A., Conner, N., Gregory, A. and Smith, N. (2019) South Atlantic Natural Capital Assessment: St Helena Cost Benefit Analysis, water security, Final Report for the South Atlantic Overseas Territories Natural Capital Assessment. In draft
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South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute Report. In draft Research South Atlantic Environmental in draft Falklands Institute, Stanley, Research South Atlantic Environmental Project report. South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute. Pp 17 Institute. Research Environmental South Atlantic Project report. McVittie, A., Durnford, M., Conner, N. Gregory, A., Morgan, V. and Smith, N. and Smith, A., Morgan, V. N. Gregory, M., Conner, Durnford, McVittie, A., Atlantic(2019) South Benefit Analysis, St Helena Cost Natural Capital Assessment: Natural Atlantic Overseas Territories the South for Final Report waste management, In draft Capital Assessment. Natural Atlantic Smith, N. (2019) South I., Hutchison, J., Marengo, McVittie, A., Natural Capital. South Atlantic Modelling St. Helena’s Capital Project: In draft Institute Report. Research Environmental report. A. (2016). T2T Montserrat L., Gregory, A., RogerRyan, Ponteen, T., Pelembe, Islands. Falkland Institute, Stanley, Research South Atlantic Environmental L., QGIS training courses Ryan Delivering A., (2019) Manghi G., Gregory T., Pelembe in the Caribbean islands and Anguilla. of Montserrat levels) (beginner and intermediate Project report A., (2019) Montserrat Data Gregory L., Ryan P., Brickle I. Marengo, T., Pelembe Gregory A., (2018) L., Brickle P., Ryan Duberry I. Marengo, D., T., Pelembe Natural Capital base for a sound evidence Establishing a tool for providing report Project Project. Management Assessment in Montserrat: The Montserrat Data Ascension Natural Capital Assessment Project: (2018) South Atlantic SAERI Institute Report. In draft Research Report. South Atlantic Environmental Workshop St. Helena Natural Capital Assessment Project: (2018) South Atlantic SAERI Islands the Natural Capital Assessment: Understanding (2018) Falkland SAERI Institute Research of land-based tourism South Atlantic Environmental Value Report. In draft Final Values. K. (2019) St Helena Marine Tourism J., and Andrews, Smith, N., Drew, Natural Capital Assessment in draft Territories Report Overseas the South Atlantic for Management da Capital Assessment Waste Cunha Natural Smith, N. (2019) Tristan Report Series: Overseas Territories Capital in the UK’s Smith, N. 2019. Natural Islands in draft Falkland South Atlantic Region, No. 1. Report Series: Overseas Territories Capital in the UK’s Smith, N. 2019 Natural South Atlantic Region, No. 2. St Helena. In draft 21) 26) 22) 23) 24) 25) Portal. 27) 28) Process. 29) 30) 31) Report 32) 33) 34) Smith, N. 2019. Natural Capital in the UK’s Overseas Territories Report Series: South Atlantic Region, No. 3. Tristan da Cunha. In draft 35) Smith, N. 2019 Natural Capital in the UK’s Overseas Territories Report Series: South Atlantic Region, No. 4. Ascension Island. In draft 36) Smith, N., (2018) South Atlantic Natural Capital Assessment Project: St. Helena
WE ARE SAERI | UNPUBLISHED PAPERS Consultation Report. South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute Report. 37) Smith, N., Drew, J., Andrews, K. (2019) South Atlantic Natural Capital Assessment Project: St. Helena Marine Tourism Values. South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute Report. 38) Williams, J., Medcalf, K., Ties, S., (2019) Soil Erosion Model for Tristan da Cunha. South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute Report. In draft 39) Wolfs Company (2017) Report on workshops: Natural Capital Assessment in the South Atlantic. Commissioned by SAERI.
30 WE ARE SAERI | PARTNER ORGANISATIONS 31 Southern Rockhopper penguin with chicks. BUILDING A NETWORK OF INSTITUTES AEOA: AUSTRAL EARTH OBSERVATION ALLIANCE PROVIDING INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Earth Observation (EO) is the collection of information about the earth’s surface
WE ARE SAERI | PARTNER ORGANISATIONS (including aquatic environments) using remote sensing tools, e.g. satellite imagery, aerial photography, drone footage, radars, sonars. Through the generation of products (e.g. maps, data visualisation), Earth Observation data can then be used to measure and monitor different features of the environment over time, which can feed into management and decision-making processes from the regional to local scale. EO data has the potential to reduce long-term costs and can be used as a tool to bridge the gaps between science and decision-making.
The South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI), together with its partners: the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, the Universidad de Magalleanes (UMAG); Universidad Santo Tomás (Santiago), Universidad de Chile and the University of Dundee, is developing a virtual centre of excellence to bring together providers and users of EO enabling them to work together on common problems to exploit EO in the South Atlantic and South American region. The Centre will include researchers, government bodies, NGOs, and the private sector.
AEOA was launched in the Falkland Islands in March 2019, when a group of Chilean Researchers visited the islands to finalise the Alliance concept and participate in a Science Symposium.
Right and far right: Chilean and British Academics visit the Falklands for AEOA launch. 32 WE ARE SAERI | PARTNER ORGANISATIONS 33 "I have been fortunate to meet SAERI staff to meet SAERI "I have been fortunate with them during my and to collaborate in whet was Islands, visit to the Falkland of AEOA, the early stages of creation earth an international alliance for ecosystems. austral observation around in stakeholder has been a key SAERI and leading world-class promoting across work and research collaborative multiple disciplines and organizations, the Atlantic, scope across with a regional and now extending their collaboration to my country, Chile. In addition reach technical and scientific to producing staff of the highest level, SAERI products blend of skills and abilities hold a strong with multiple that allow them to interact and diverse partners, both local and international, building solid collaboration capacity strong in engaging and networks building work along the way." Professor, A. Labra, Fabio Dr. of Sciences, Faculty Chile Universidad Santo Tomas, THE MID ATLANTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE
SAERI is supporting a growing network of Territory-led research institutes. The Mid Atlantic Research Institute (MAERI) , a ‘sister’ Institute was launched in 2018.
The concept of MAERI was born through and how to adapt the research institute WE ARE SAERI | PARTNER ORGANISATIONS existing relationships and partnerships model that SAERI has developed between the Anguilla Community College successfully in the South Atlantic so that (ACC), the Government of Anguilla (GOA), similar research benefits might be derived the Joint Nature Conservation Committee for Anguilla and the surrounding (JNCC) and the South Atlantic Environmental Caribbean region. Research Institute (SAERI). A series of discussions were held with these partners MAERI’s vision is to be an internationally to explore the creation of an environmental recognised academic institute based in research institute based in Anguilla. Anguilla and conducting world-class natural and physical research, undertaking The discussions focussed on both how relevant training and teaching; and building to consolidate a range of activities around capacity within and between the UK’s research and training that were being Caribbean Overseas Territories (OTs) developed jointly by the organisations, and beyond.
Above: MAERI launch. 34 WE ARE SAERI | PARTNER ORGANISATIONS 35 KARL DAWSON, PH.D KARL DAWSON, Anguilla the MAERI Team, For This will include making links betweenThis will include making links and MAERI; network research the SAERI funding bids; andcollaborating on research undertaking cross-territory training and skill sharing. much to owes The initiation of MAERI of SAERI. the experience and assistance in Anguilla stakeholders of local The desire and research to further an environmental training agenda was crystallised into a clear vision and plan in the of action resulting formation of MAERI. This facilitated by and the Joint our colleagues in SAERI ConservationNature Committee. "It has been a pleasure working with SAERI since the inception of MAERI – the sharing of since the inception of MAERI – the sharing working with SAERI "It has been a pleasure to be a part of excited are territories has been invaluable. We experiences and ideas across to Institutes and look future based Research network of UK Overseas Territories this growing further over the coming years." developing our ideas, visions and collaborations Government of Anguilla and MAERI Chair Secretary Hodge, Permanent Mr Karim Anguilla SAERI, as part of the core group of partners as part group core of the SAERI, in directand as ‘sister’ institute, will work research partnership with MAERI to develop opportunities research. joint and undertake The core group of partners (Anguilla group The core of Government Community College, Anguilla Department of Environment, of Anguilla Department Government of South Fisheries and marine resources, Institute; Research Atlantic Environmental Conservationand Joint Nature Committee) behind the will be the driving force will provide establishment, and institute’s ofthe foundation for the development additional partnerships and networks. Although MAERI was created as SAERI’s as SAERI’s Although MAERI was created ‘sister’ the concept behind MAERI is slightly different as a as it has been set up partnership of organisations, than a rather single organisation. THE ST. HELENA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
SAERI is supporting a growing network of Territory-led research institutes. The St. Helena Research Institute (SHRI), a ‘sister’ Institute was launched on the 12th November 2019. WE ARE SAERI | PARTNER ORGANISATIONS The SHRI has been established as a SHRI’s mission is to grow and share collaborative organization, based on St knowledge, manage data, teach, train and Helena, to support, promote and conduct build capacity to improve the quality of world class research on St Helena Island people’s lives, support sustainable living across the range of natural (biological, earth and care for our shared natural and and environmental), agricultural, information, physical environment and cultural technology, medical, humanities and social heritage. sciences. It is made up of a core group of founding partners (St Helena Education SHRI works to promote St Helena’s & Employment Directorate, St Helena research priorities locally and Government Environmental Management internationally and to build and maintain Division, St Helena National Trust, Enterprise effective partnerships, networks and St Helena and SAERI). SAERI is a member of connections, locally, regionally and the SHRI Steering Group and is an advisory internationally to conduct and finance member of the St Helena Research Council. research.
Above: QGIS training course participants and trainers at SHRI. 36 WE ARE SAERI | PARTNER ORGANISATIONS 37 "The is a establishment of the SHRI an significant achievement, creating St Helena to build opportunity for exciting of science and Saint upon the foundations Science that have been established on the decades. Island over several concept inception to establishment From support, SAERI’s we have benefited from knowledge and experience sharing. to building on our look forward We with and collaborations relationship and the UK Overseas Territories SAERI network in the coming years and expanding opportunities to grow knowledge and understanding and build capacity that can bring benefits at the and international level." local, regional Rebecca Cairns-Wicks Dr. Institute St. Helena Research Coordinator . Scott George © SHRI provides technical and administrative technical and SHRI provides support Council, the St Helena Research to on St research and oversee who manage inHelena. SHRI supports researchers applications and submitting their developing Council, ensuringto the St Helena Research responsible meet ethical and are that they equitable in and are for research standards benefit sharing. With the St Helena Research and the stakeholders Council, other key the assure SHRI help community, research collection, preservation, use and appropriate data andand dissemination of research conducted on Stresearch findings from Helena. SHRI also facilitates community and collaborationsengagement with local learning andorganisations, developing training opportunities. Peak Dale St Helena. Above: Peak COASTAL MAPPING PROJECT Our planet is experiencing rapid change - the burning of fossil fuels, habitat destruction and the increase in the global population threatens biodiversity and habitats important for maintaining healthy productive ecosystems. In the near pristine environments of the Falkland Islands
SAERI WORK | COASTAL MAPPING P ROJECT and South Georgia, SAERI’s Coastal Mapping project set out to establish a baseline for the environmental management, protection and restoration of coastal and inshore marine ecosystems.
The Defra-funded Darwin Initiative project started in future change, habitat restoration success or human 2017 in response to the recognition that the coastal impact. Habitat models and their visualisation as maps and inshore marine ecosystems (and their constituent are a fundamental element for understanding the habitats within) and resources of the Falklands and distribution and extent of features across the landscape, South Georgia are an important ecological, social and to facilitate better management practices, natural capital economic component of these islands’ natural capital. accounting, ecosystem service mapping, interpreting and Those around South Georgia provide an essential habitat targeting biodiversity monitoring and policy formulation. for globally important populations of birds and marine mammals. Knowledge of these environments is essential This three-year project brought together experts from for their management, yet comprehensive island-wide SAERI, Oregon State University, Shallow Marine Surveys broad-scale and fine-scale coastal habitat maps have Group, the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, the been lacking; these could fill a critical evidence gap and Falkland Islands Government and the Government of provide an important baseline from which to measure South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Above: Project Manager Neil Golding out in the field in South Georgia collecting ground validation points for the habitat modelling.© Gifford Hickey. 39 PROJECT LOCATIONS | FALKLAND ISLANDS
Elephant Jason Island STANLEY Cape Dolphin
Hill Cove Rookery Bay Gypsy Cove / Yorke Bay SAERI WORK | COASTAL MAPPING P ROJECT Hummock Island Port Howard Eliza Cove Cochon Island Kidney Island Falkland Sound
Falkland Yorke Point Islands Tussac Islands West Falkland East Falkland
Surf Bay Lafonia Newhaven Cape Pembroke Port Sussex
Walker Creek Bertha’s Beach Bleaker Island
“Using cutting edge satellite and drone data, we mapped environments was particularly interesting for me” everything from kelp forests of the inshore environments, said Neil Golding, Coastal Mapping project manager. to terrestrial intertidal and terrestrial coastal in order to identify habitats across the Island” said Paul Brickle, "I fell in love with the Islands and it's wildlife” he said. Executive Director of SAERI and lead in pulling together “[I couldn’t wait for the chance to return, and this project this innovative project. “The Falkland Islands and South seemed like an ideal opportunity to hone my existing Georgia are starkly different in terms of their physical skillset, develop new skills and explore the natural beauty environment and ecosystems. They are separated by a these territories have to offer]". strong biogeographical barrier, the Polar Front that helps to maintain these different marine and terrestrial ecosystems. However, they share a number of important common features; they are high productive and support huge abundances of higher predators. Their marine environments support highly diverse faunal and floral communities.”
Aerial photography from of the Falkland Islands 1956 was digitised and used to compare to the recent imagery Above: A 3D rendering of Gold Head, created from a high-resolution creating a sound baseline for identifying habitat change. drone mapping survey completed on the South Georgia field expedition “The use of remote sensing techniques to map in March 2019. 40 ABOUT THE PROJECT The coastal and inshore marine ecosystems and and management, and yet they have been subject to little resources of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia play in-depth study. In summary, comprehensive broad-scale an important role in these two UKOTs. From their historical role as a safe harbour, source of food, and and fine-scale coastal habitat maps, which would form forage for livestock, to their present importance for an important baseline (from which to measure future SAERI WORK | COASTAL MAPPING P ROJECT fishing and wildlife-based tourism revenues, the diverse change for example), are lacking. range of ecosystem services provided by the coast and the sea, among other things, defines these islands. The challenge for this project was to fill this critical gap in With human activity came non-native and invasive coastal knowledge. The challenge was relevant to both species which are further exacterbated by climate FIG and the GSGSSI, demonstrated by the various plans change. Therefore, knowledge of these coastal and policies in place to try to address this lack of coastal environments is essential for their effective conservation environmental knowledge.
MAPPING PROTECTION INTEGRATION Digital, broad-scale and Planning and monitoring of Integrating geospatial fine-scale mapping of the the coastal margins through products with existing and Falkland Islands and training and knowledge emerging initiatives. South Georgia. transfer.
Above: Yorke Bay, Falkland Islands. 41 SAERI WORK | COASTAL MAPPING PROJECT 42
A digital terrain model created with the help of SafeLane Global help of SafeLane with the model created Above: A digital terrain as the image above. the same area for An ortho-mosaic (many hundreds of images merged together) of together) of of images merged An ortho-mosaic (many hundreds Top: SAERI vehicle at the bottom). (you can spot the blue Bay minefield Yorke now form an effectivenow baseline against which to monitor a sound basis for planning, decision providing change, also enhance the monitoring. They making and future systematic around for decisions available evidence-base conservation planning and sustainable use of the and marine habitats that supportecologyterrestrial the Islands and South Georgia. of the Falkland and economy and systems has also established frameworks The project for the Islands these maps to be updated to allow in years of the challenge as dealing and resolving to come, as well PROJECT PARTNERS PROJECT A broad-scale habitat map developed through the project for the for the project map developed through habitat Above: A broad-scale of system in the form Islands, utilising a cloud-based modelling Falkland Engine. Google Earth As a result of the project, these ‘satellite-derived’, these ‘satellite-derived’, of the project, As a result habitat maps, a ‘first’island-wide broad-scale for both Islands and South Georgia, supplemented the Falkland with nested, fine-scale habitat maps in specific locations, the Google Earth Engine platform. Where there were the Google Earth were Engine platform. there Where significant uncertainties in habitat classifications, or where and/or a spatial deemed it a priority (from stakeholders 2) coastal habitattemporal perspective), fine-scale (Stage on very based These were developed. were models/maps lucky enough satellitehigh-resolution were imagery (we the Digital Globe 2-4 from a grant for WorldView to get very or State University) high Oregon through Foundation technology. aerial imagery using drone resolution gathered To deal with this challenge, the project sought to use the project deal with this challenge, To Earth Observation available datafreely (primarily (EO) satellitein the form of Sentinel-2 medium resolution to develop data layers imagery) with other relevant along habitat (land 1) coastal cover) (Stage broad-scale using machine-learning techniques on models/maps, needing to manipulate and analyse large satellite datasets “The Coastal Habitat Mapping Project has provided in Territories with notoriously poor and expensive a valuable snapshot of what South Georgia looks like internet connectivity. This was tackled by utilising today and may provide clues to the stresses it is under, cloud-computing technology, negating the need to but perhaps even more exciting than this glimpse into transfer large satellite imagery files. the South Georgia of today, is the ability to repeat and expand this work over time, so that GSGSSI can begin
SAERI WORK | COASTAL MAPPING P ROJECT to understand temporal changes and use this knowledge The new information generated by this project will feed to inform management decisions to better protect South into the Marine Spatial Planning process that was Georgia.”
established on the Falkland Islands through DPLUS027. Helen Havercroft, CEO of the Government of South The legacy of these established modelling and mapping Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) frameworks and systems will improve the ability to manage the remote coastal margin areas in the Falklands and South Georgia, through using satellite and drone imagery to detect changes over time, and identify areas under threat.
Above: A digital map of 1956 aerial imagery, now available online through the DPLUS065 Coastal Habitat Mapping webGIS
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Bird Island Elsehul Albatross Cove Start Point Fortuna Bay
KING EDWARD POINT
Koppen Point Moltke Harbour
Gold Harbour
South Georgia Cooper Bay
43 SAERI WORK | COASTAL MAPPING PROJECT 44 SOUTH GEORGIA FROM THE AIR, FROM LAND SOUTH GEORGIA CINEMA, HARBOUR LIGHTS AND SEA, STANLEY of 30th September 2019, the PM gave On the evening cinema, which had at the new the inaugural public talk covered The presentation in Stanley. opened recently to South Georgia in February/ expedition the project’s success, was a resounding event 2019. The March The Governor booked. with all 54 seats in the cinema Islands, of South and Commissioner of the Falkland Phillips CBE also Nigel Georgia, His Excellency attended. FIRE RISK MAPPING AND MINEFIELD MAPPING themselves shown already outputs have The project benefit to the territories, for example theto be of great mapping in fire-risk habitat maps use of the broad-scale & Rescue Service Fire (identified for the Falklands during the Coastal Habitat discussions sparked through The minefield mappingMapping training workshop). (which assisted both SafeLane Global and the UKwork Office) added- provided & Commonwealth Foreign underway already by the project,value to existing work and highlighted the benefits of collaboration and partnership working. PROJECTS OTHER the project has been usedData and imagery from from model derived to validate a global giant kelp A High-Resolution Global Map Sentinel 2 imagery, and (Macrocystis pyrifera) Forests of Giant Kelp with Sentinel-2 Intertidal Algae (Ulvophyceae) Green Imagery. SAERI, 2019. This imagery was collected by the DPLUS065 Coastal Habitat Mapping project, grant aided by the Darwin Initiative through UK Government funding. UK Government aided by the Darwin Initiative through grant Coastal Habitat Mapping project, 2019. This imagery was collected by the DPLUS065 SAERI, © SHACKLETON SCHOLARSHIP FUND SCHOLARSHIP SHACKLETON to the successful in his application The PM was a to get application Shackleton Scholarship Fund The PM was to the Falklands. expertdrone down of grant funds. successful in securing £2,714 together ScholarThe PM and Shackleton worked when drones, how promote within the community to benefit science, education and really can used safely, Nicole run by series of events The resulting more. and well Durfee received was well and the PM jointly attended by the wider public. GIRL GUIDES FALKLAND a letter of support to the Falkland The PM wrote in supportIslands of their Environmental Government Island to application to visit Bleaker Studies Budget some conservationundertake orientated activities. As part this visit, the Girl Guides collected of ground Islandvalidation for inclusion in the data Bleaker from habitat model/map. broad-scale Falklands & JUNIOR SCHOOL (IJS), STANLEY INFANT The PM visited IJS in July 2018 as part of their Science made an informative and with his colleague, Week which are forests) (kelp on marine forests presentation a vitally important the Falklands marine habitat around ascoastline, and one of the habitats being mapped As part of this session, the PM part of DPLUS065. to the Darwin some background + was able to provide Coastal Habitat Mapping project PUBLIC TALK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE talk about the DPLUS065 a public The PM gave on 27thproject at the Chamber of Commerce attendance, was very good 2018, and there November which usually evening, despite it being a warm, sunny participation in such events. leads to reduced PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS PROJECT SAERI WORK TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS
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Montserrat Fisheries MONTSERRAT Data integration Project SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 1 COMPLETED Developing Marine Spatial Planning Montserrat Data (MSP) Tools Project for the Turks and Caicos 2
South Atlantic UK Overseas Territories Natural Capital Assessment Project
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BEST 2.0 GAP II project Including other projects (General marine COMPLETED supported by SAERI science) MSP Phase II project (General marine 5 science) Darwin Plus Soil map and online database as climate change 4 mitigation tools project Information Management System - GIS Data Centre 10 (plus Scotland)
Darwin Plus Fine scaling the design of Falkland Islands Marine Management Areas’ project
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Darwin Plus: Darwin Plus Dolphins of the Kelp Mapping the coastal Data priorities for margins of the Falkland SOUTH GEORGIA Falkland’s inshore Islands and cetaceans South Georgia SOUTH SANDWICH ISLANDS 46 Section 3 cover image: King penguins at Volunteer Point. SAERI WORK | PROJECTS
ASCENSION ISLAND
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TRISTAN DE CUNHA 3 PROJECT MAP MOVE Facilitating MAES to support regional policy in OVerseas OVERVIEW OF OUR Europe (Covers all EU OCTs) SOUTH ATLANTIC WORK
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DISCOVERY 100 project PROJECT CATEGORY A visionary, privately funded initative Ecosystems project Earth Science Remote Sensing & Data Science 47 1. DEVELOPING MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING (MSP) TOOLS FOR THE TURKS AND CAICOS ECOSYSTEMS SAERI WORK | PROJECTS Territories active Turks and Caicos Project Manager Julian Tyne Project Assistant Marcin Gorny Start date April 2019 End date June 2021 Funding organisations Darwin Initiative Project Partners Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR), Turks and Caicos Government (TCIG), Economics For The Environment Consultancy (EFTEC) Project URL www.south-atlantic-research.org/research/marine-science/developing-marine-spatial- planning-msp-tools-for-turks-and-caicos/
PROJECT OBJECTIVES To develop GIS baseline maps of the distribution of coastal, inshore and offshore habitats, together with their biota and resources, including areas/sites of current and prospective marine activities, coastal development, coastal vulnerabilities and natural capital valuation / accounting. • To hold a series of stakeholder workshops and meetings, to help create and populate the GIS data and map layers, and then review and discuss the potential approaches to Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) in the Turks and Caicos (TCI) and the application of these data. • The two methods will be combined, using ecosystem-based approaches, to provide advice on appropriate policies, practices and frameworks for MSP in the coastal, inshore and offshore waters of TCI. This will include specific advice on the establishment of important areas for economic, social / cultural heritage, ecological and biological sensitivity.
Right: Julian and Marcin on their first day in the Department of Environment and Coastal Resources, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos. ©Megan Tierney Far right: New vehicle for the project. 48 SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 49 HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2018-19 FOR HIGHLIGHTS Islands and Caicos in StaffTurks in the arrived Project theOctober from 2019 to a very warm welcome and Coastal Resources Department of Environment meeting was group management A project staff. (DECR) potential vehicle, of a project and the purchase convened and Caicos, data of marine data for the Turks sources was discussed. potential stakeholders and management the and purchased server and a were A project vehicle leastdata of At is being undertaken. initial stage mining been collected and collated, have 20 data layers seagrass beds and mangrove consisting of coral reefs, protected fishing areas, habitats, conch and lobster data. sites and bathymetric dive swim zones, areas, During a site visit to North and Middle Caicos, project a small Cay, at Mangrove staff mangroves red saw uninhabited island286-acre located close of the play Mangroves north-eastern end of Providenciales. in stabilising the role an important environmental storm surges, from erosion coastline, reducing system of and tides. The intricate root waves, currents, attractive to fish and other them also makes mangroves predators. organisms seeking food and shelter from fishing, including conch and reserve, As a nature natural or as is the taking of any prohibited, is lobster, Cay. Mangrove historical object from
Grand Turk Workshop. Turk Above: Grand At present TCI has no such holistic strategic approach has no such holistic strategic TCI present At and Existing management to marine management. sustainability. to ensure legislation need to be improved and tools to bring the framework This project will create these functions and uses of the marinetogether an MSP in which is essential for developing environment, meetings stakeholder and includes a series of reviews, TCI, an all-islandand workshops; metadata catalogue and GIS database for analyses and visualisation. Through an innovative integrated, stakeholder-led approach an innovative Through (connecting this project builds a science and communities), South Atlantic partnership the between to Territory Territory in the Falklands Institute (SAERI) Research Environmental and CoastalIslands and the Department of Environment and Caicos Islands (TCI) in the Turks (DECR) Resources for TCI Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) Tools to Develop to feed into long-term planning and decision-making in the marine environment. PROJECT OVERVIEW PROJECT in the Turks working of stakeholders a range are There in biodiversity, EEZ, which is rich and Caicos Islands (TCI) and services important goods ecosystem and provides vital disasterincluding its However, role. mitigation resource from risk to the marine environment is there and such pressures extraction and coastal development to intensify. likely are SAERI WORK | PROJECTS
Left: A simple habitat map created from data provided by the Department of Environment and Coastal Resources (DECR). Right: Turks and Caicos Islands coastal landscape.
North and Middle Caicos are found at the centre of the there’s a beautiful three mile (4.8km) long section of Caicos Islands archipelago, a mile-long causeway connects beach and coastline called Mudjin Harbour, however, the two islands that make up most of the land mass of the it isn’t really a good place to swim, as waves, rocks, and Turks and Caicos. At the northern end of Middle Caicos sea urchins are common in places.
Top: Atlantic bottlenose dolphin. Left: DECR and SAERI met with the Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands His Excellency Nigel John Dakin. Right TGIG and SAERI met with Hon. Ralph L Higgs Minister of Tourism, Environment, Heritage, Maritime, Gaming & Disaster Management . 50 SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 51
MARCIN GORNY is a GIS Specialist Marcin in with an interest protection, environmental ecology and biogeography. he Poland Originally from in holds a MSc degree Protection Environmental and His interest Poland). University, (Warsaw a long through experience has been developed Institute term collaboration with Mammal Research he served as of Science where Academy Polish he was a GIS Specialist. During his time there such as habitat of projects in a range involved species in Poland, areas fragmentation and roadless distribution modelling for lynx, habitat selectivity bison, phylogeography analyses for European deer and moose of red and distribution changes the last 50 000 years. and Asia over in Europe an ecological He also took his part in developing which included apart for Poland corridors network map, spatial and interactive layers creating from for stakeholders plans series of workshops analyses, in and planning of wildlife crossings and evaluation different parts of Poland. is also an experienced cartographer and he Marcin for different publishers in Poland map has worked He is passionate in creating for the last 10 years. high accuracy and detailed tourist maps, city plans atlases. and road hiking and cycling, time, he enjoys In his free in history He is also interested and kayaking. geography.
conservation, and a particular in interest and populationbehavioural identifying ecology, important marine habitats with a passion for marine DR JULIAN TYNE DR JULIAN scientist Julian is a marine approaches. management and informing on appropriate After at gaining a BSc (Hons), in marine science Australia looking at Western University, Murdoch habitat characteristicsthe relationship between and tool use in bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, on to pursue his PhD. Australia, Julian went Western Western In collaboration University, with Murdoch Marine Lab and North University Australia, Duke United States, his in the State University Carolina the abundance and survivalproject investigated rates, important of spinner habitats and the exposure dolphins (Stenella to human activities longirostris) in to the National approaches recommending Hawaii, Administration (NOAA) Oceanic and Atmospheric human interactions to manage with the spinner dolphins in their important habitats. resting experience with Unmanned AerialJulian has extensive hybrid wing and fixed both rotor Systems (UAS), on projects that included gained working (VTOL), body the distribution of dugongs, investigating condition of humpback and right whales and collecting dolphins for DNA analysis. (snot) from expelled breath In 2018 he was a member of a team that made the final of the Google Impact Australia Challenge to monitor seagrass AI and dugongs using drones, ecosystems, and he also collaborates with the Marine to help identify Force Task Areas Mammal Protected (IMMAs). He enjoys Important Areas Marine Mammal and football. paddle boarding scuba diving, snorkelling,
PROJECT MANAGERS PROJECT
2. NATURAL CAPITAL ASSESSMENT ECOSYSTEMS AND EARTH SCIENCE SAERI WORK | PROJECTS Territories active Falkland Islands, St Helena, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha Project Manager Ness Smith Start date February 2017 End date March 2019 Funding organisations UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office via the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Project Partners Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), Falkland Islands Government, St Helena Government, Government of Tristan da Cunha, Ascension Island Government Project URL www.south-atlantic-research.org/research/terrestrial-science/natural-capital-assessment/ www.jncc.gov.uk/our-work/natural-capital-in-the-south-atlantic-overseas-territories/
PROJECT OBJECTIVES Produce spatial data on the distribution of selected natural capital assets, bot marine and terrestrial, derived from satellite imagery and other existing resources, as relevant to each Territory; Assess priority natural capital assets and the economic and societal benefits arising from them; Apply analytical tools that will support decision making in the context of environmental management and economic development; Develop methods for monitoring changes to priority natural capital over time using appropriate attributes.
Right: ‘Nature’s benefits: Natural Capital in the South Atlantic’ Conference participants. 52 SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 53 Ness holds a Biology degree from the University of York and a MSc in Tropical Coastal and a MSc in Tropical of York the University from Ness holds a Biology degree in both of experience range a broad She has University. Newcastle from Management with an emphasis and management, research and temperate marine scientific tropical alongside Defra and the Working on the study of complex socio-ecological systems. Organisation, in marine methods Marine Management Ness helped to pioneer new spatial planning assessment into the (MSP), including the integration of strategic national seascape character of new planning and the development process, courses and lectured on MSP to assessment guidelines. Ness has helped to develop in the at a number of UK institutions. Her interest students and professionals of her MSP experience, and she as a result ecosystem services developed approach a project which developed interdisciplinary a large European on to manage went with Ness has worked to value marine ecosystem services. recently, framework More organisations the high seas governance to address and intergovernmental governments the global impact needed to reduce of IUU fishing. reforms PROJECT MANAGER | NESS SMITH MANAGER PROJECT PROJECT OVERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2018-19 Natural Capital is a term used to describe the earth's The project drew to its conclusion in March 2019. stocks of natural assets which include geology, soil, air, A round-up Regional Natural Capital Conference was water and all living things. From this natural capital, hosted by St. Helena in March 2019. The conference humans derive a wide range of services, often called entitled ‘Nature’s benefits: Natural Capital in the South
SAERI WORK | PROJECTS ecosystem services, which make human life possible. Atlantic’ brought together participants from across all The Natural Capital Assessment (NCA) project is UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) in the region funded by the FCO-managed Conflict, Stability and consolidated the final outputs of the Natural Capital. Security Fund (CSSF) through the UK Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Assessment Project The conference was well received (Defra) and implemented by the Joint Nature on-Island with up to 120 people attending each day to Conservation Committee (JNCC). SAERI has been take part in political exchanges and talks on a range of tasked by JNCC to deliver the project for the South topics about nature's benefits. Around 600+ listeners Atlantic Overseas Territories. also tuned into the conference, which was broadcast live via local radio and online over the three-day period, The aim is to develop a framework for the South showing how important the environment and the Atlantic UK Overseas Territories to assess the value Natural Capital approach is to all of the South Atlantic - both monetary and non-monetary - of priority islands. ecosystem services, and to integrate this information into marine and terrestrial spatial planning, economic Around 30 grey literature reports were produced by the planning and environmental protection. project that focussed on Natural Capital Assessment priorities identified by on-island stakeholders. These The project will assist the UK South Atlantic Overseas ranged from Cultural Ecosystem Services assessments Territories to assess and map natural capital, value across all of the islands to understanding the value of priority assets and deploy decision support tools to tourism; to producing land-use planning models. secure long-term economic benefits from the A Land-Use Model WebGIS project was developed sustainable management of their natural assets. which visualises a range of spatial data sets relating to This support will be provided through the development Land Use and Land Use planning on St. Helena. and collation of spatial evidence, and a Territory-to- This includes mapping scenarios for future Territory partnership for technical exchange and development such as increased coffee and food capacity building within the UK's Overseas Territories production. in the region.
Above: WebGIS of Land-Use model for St. Helena 54 SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 55
aims to demonstrate the possibility and the advantage of a bottom-up approach, of a bottom-up approach, aims to demonstrate the possibility and the advantage and capacitating local actors. involving The project will start by assessing the state of the art of the MAES exercise within The project will start art by assessing the state of the of the MAES exercise and motivating the human and by inventorying regions, the participating overseas in each of them. It will then choose as case studies and material capacities present regions and a particularwork of a eight specific contribution on which to focus the dedicated team of local experts, and civil society members, pooled policy makers the OR and OCTs. across from this project a tangible contribution for the MAES exercise, In addition to producing The MOVE pilot project intends to involve policy makers, researchers and the civil researchers policy makers, intends to involve pilot project The MOVE state of methodologies for mapping and assessing the society in the development and synergistic A coordinated of ecosystems and their services in ORs and OCTs. base political and knowledge to turn the geographical, is advocated approach and building robust resources fragmentation of these entities into assets, pooling participatory tools.
Falkland Islands, Ascension Island, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha Islands, Island, Ascension St. Helena, Tristan Falkland Bowers and Teresa Pelembe Tara April 2018 2021 March Commission European of La University Company, Wolfs (FRCT), Regional para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Fundo Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität pour Le Développement, Laguna, Institut de Recherche de la Université degli Studi di Trento, Universidad de Madrid, Universitá Autónoma Hannover, Atlántica y Sostenibilidad Asociación Biodiversidad (ABAS) Blue Environment, Réunion, Nova de Coopération Internationale Corporation, Centre Higher Education of Portsmouth University en Recherche Agronomique pour Le Développement, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Institute Amsterdam Universiteit Vrije pour Le Développement, Agronomique en Recherche of Science Studies (IVM), Faculty Environmental For www.moveproject.eu/ www.south-atlantic-research.org/research/terrestrial-science/move-mapping-and-assessing -benefits-coming-from-the-european-overseas-ecosystems/ PROJECT OBJECTIVES PROJECT
Project coordinators Start date End date Funding organisation Project Partners Territories active Territories Project URL ECOSYSTEMS AND EARTH SCIENCE AND EARTH ECOSYSTEMS FACILITATING MAPPING AND ASSESSMENT OF ECOSYSTEM SERVICES SERVICES OF ECOSYSTEM AND ASSESSMENT MAPPING FACILITATING EUROPE: POLICY OVERSEAS IN REGIONAL SUPPORT TO (MAES) POOLING AND RESOURCES STAKEHOLDERS MOBILIZING 3. MOVE In addition to producing a tangible contribution for the MAES exercise, this project aims to demonstrate the possibility and the advantage of a bottom-up approach, involving and capacitating local actors. If successful, this project will allow testing and implementing the MAES methodology in different world regions, providing methodologies and good practice guidelines,
SAERI WORK | PROJECTS thus contributing to a worldwide EU leadership in this field. The project covers all of the EU ORs and OCTs. SAERI is leading on input relating to the South Atlantic Overseas Territories.
HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2018-19 SAERI presented the MOVE project in a regional context via a poster presentation at the South Atlantic Regional Natural Capital Assessment Conference hosted by St. Helena in March 2019.
SAERI contributed to the project discussions and decisions around the development of case studies for the project, one of which will be focussed on the Falkland Islands.
Top right: A summary of the Falklands case study
Right: MOVE poster on display at the poster session during the South Atlantic Regional Conference on Natural Capital Assessment.
Opposite: Labidiaster radiosus AKA sun star. ©SMSG
56 SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 57 4. INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (IMS)-GIS DATA CENTRE
SAERI WORK | PROJECTS Territories active Falkland Islands, Ascension Island, Saint Helena, Tristan da Cunha, Montserrat, Scotland Project Manager Ilaria Marengo Project Team Members Jorge Luis Batista Echevarria (pb) from 23rd June 2018 Start date February 2017 End date March 2019 Funding organisations SAERI, FIG, University of Dundee (Satellite Receiving Station and Centre for Remote Environments) Joint Nature Conservation Committee Project URL www.south-atlantic-research.org/research/data-science/
PROJECT OBJECTIVES Produce spatial data on the distribution of selected natural capital assets, bot marine and terrestrial, derived from satellite imagery and other existing resources, as relevant to each Territory; Assess priority natural capital assets and the economic and societal benefits arising from them; Apply analytical tools that will support decision making in the context of environmental management and economic development; Develop methods for monitoring changes to priority natural capital over time using appropriate attributes.
PROJECT OVERVIEW In the last 5 years, the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) has developed and implemented the Information Management System (IMS) GIS Data Centre for the UKOTs in the South Atlantic region. Ascension Island, Falkland Islands and Saint Helena Governments have been active participants in its set-up. The IMS-GIS Data Centre has since expanded its geographical range and is supporting a number of projects globally including the Caribbean.
From May 2018, the IMS-GIS Data Centre has been working in partnership with the University of Dundee to support “Phase II” which aims to upgrade some of the current data services offered, and expand its offering to include elements such as a more functional data portal for an improved metadata discovery and data accessibility, and an image catalogue for managing and analysing images which are a growing part of the type of data collected by scientists during their research projects. 58 SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 59 launch of both data portal) (www.gisdataportal.gov.ms of ) at the end (www.webgis.gov.ms and the webGIS 2019. March the data of portal for the development In parallel to a smilar spent in preparing Montserrat, time has been using the same Islands as well, service for the Falkland to meet the although customised structure of the territory Atlantic in the South requirements different (e.g. slightly metadataregion front structure, etc). The main of data requests management page, Islandsdraft was delivered of the portal the Falkland for resulted its publication however at the end of March, on the additional work and required complex more settings of the hosting server. Examples of St. Helena natural capital scenario mapping. of St. Helena natural Examples
The preparatory work was carried out in the UK before in the UK before was carried out The preparatory work the team worked to Montserrat where being transferred the official period before week on island for a two HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2017-18 FOR HIGHLIGHTS been was end of 2018 SAERI the Towards Conservation by the Joint Nature commissioned based source an open to deliver (JNCC) Committee data services portal webGIS and Government to the Mrs GOM GIS dataof Montserrat (GOM). man-ager was the contact point of the Government Ryan Lavern team IMS-GIS data centre of Montserrat and the SAERI at the (Software developer Brooks included Andrew of Dundee). University of the Station Receiving Satellite support for provided IT manager, Carl Cilenti, JNCC setting up the server which hosts the data services. Above: The Natural Capital Assessment (NCA) project of any node in the network. Additionally, the BN-GIS required the support of the data centre both for integration tool visualises scenarios, which have been integrating GIS to the Bayesian Network Analyses developed through stakeholders input. The results from (BN-GIS) and for the overall data management. The the project are available here (www.data.jncc.gov.uk/ goal of the exercise was to support the Natural Capital data/bcb4e6a3-02dc-44a6-88d1-f59be6c242a1/ assessment process on St. Helena using ot-nca-sup-sat-32-sth-apr2019.pdf ) SAERI WORK | PROJECTS socio-ecological models based on Bayesian Networks. The GIS integration is to allow the results of the model Through the NCA project a second GIS analysis was to be mapped and visualised by the stakeholders. carried out and focussed on identifying suitable areas The bnspatial R pack-age has been a very useful tool for a landfill in Saint Helena. The work entailed a and it has been adapted to be functional to the multi-criteria analysis on data provided by various St Helena study. Outputs are maps of either expected departments of Saint Helena Gov-ernment and value or state given known and unknown conditions resulted in a publications (www.data.jncc.gov.uk/data specified in the network, maps of uncertainty measured /34e6c807-f83b-46ef-ad40-ef93f58813b3/ as coefficient of variation or Shannon index ot-nca-sup-sat-08-sth-mapping-oct2018.pdf) (entropy), maps of probability associated to any states
Above: Automating the count of albatross with ORBIT image segmentation. 60 GIS SPECIALIST AND PROJECT MANAGER IMS-GIS DATA MANAGER – FALKLANDS DR ILARIA MARENGO JORGE L. BATISTA
iLaria joined SAERI in Jorge a.k.a. “pb” September 2013 as GIS Echevarría graduated as SAERI WORK | PROJECTS specialist and project an Engineer in manager and her task was Automatics from the to set up the Information Universidad Central de Management System and Las Villas UCLV, Cuba, GIS Centre for the South in 2000, and is one of Atlantic UK Overseas the core members of the Territories (UK SAOTs). The project was funded for Open Geospatial Community in America. An active two years by the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO) proponent of Open Source, he is also dedicated and it was overseen by the Joint Nature Conservation to the free access to data and the creation of data Committee (JNCC). After the first couple of years of communities. He was a member of the OSGeo development, iLaria led the implementation of the Spanish Local Chapter Board of Directors from Centre, which succeeded in identifying the strengths 2008 to 2011, and has been an OSGeo Charter and weaknesses of the island-based data management Member since 2016. He organised the system. May 2018 saw the start of “phase 2” of the IMS- OpenStreetMap community in Cuba from scratch, GIS data centre in collaboration with the University of actively contributing to open projects such as Dundee. This phase was focused on further Mapillary, Pangea and CubaConf. Working over development of the reach of data services for the UK a decade as a systems analyst for the SAOT, and reflects Ilaria’s passion for new challenges multidisciplinary team at the Software and making spatial tools open to people and facilitate Development Group in the IT Division of the their jobs. Particular emphasis was given to creating Historians’ Office of Havana, he has gained a wide a data portal and to developing an image catalogue background in Open Data management and using OMERO. software development. He joined the SAERI team for 12 months to cover a secondment, arriving in iLaria’s educational background is a degree in Geography June of 2018 to join the SAERI’s Data Centre as (Genoa, 2001), a MSc in Remote Sensing and Image IMS-GIS Data manager. Processing (Dundee, 2006), a PhD on GIS and spatial multivariate statistics as tool for assessing the character of the Scottish landscape (Stirling, 2010).
61 5. DARWIN PLUS SOIL MAP AND ONLINE DATABASE AS CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TOOLS EARTH SCIENCE SAERI WORK | PROJECTS Territories active Falkland Islands Project Manager Dr Stefanie Carter Start date April 2018 End date July 2020 Funding organisations Darwin Initiative Project Partners SAERI, Falkland Islands Government, The James Hutton Institute, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Natural History Museum, University of Magallanes, Falkland Islands Trust Shackelton Scholarship Fund Project URL www.south-atlantic-research.org/research/terrestrial-science/soil-map-and-online-database- as-climate-change-mitigation-tools/
PROJECT OBJECTIVES Create a national soil map for the Falkland Islands • Provide an interactive online tool for land managers to improve farm outputs sustainably • Establish a baseline for erosion, peatlands and carbon stock for climate change mitigation
Top: Port North Bottom left: Field work at Goose Green Bottom right: Soil horizons 62 SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 63 The fieldwork team encountered a variety of soil types. team encountered The fieldwork in centimetres only a few from depth ranged Peat 8 m in a Histosol soil) to a record Leptosols (shallow Other soil types (deep peat) at Johnsons Harbour. soils with included periodically waterlogged encountered characterised which are mottling, and Podzols, strong which all minerals were from by an eluviation horizon then accumulated leached out and are in the horizon colour. reddish-brown which possesses a strong below, Islands Lennie at the Falkland partner Gordon Project also spent a Department of Agriculture Government considerable amount of time in the lab analysing all the project soil samples. allowed The data he provided The James Hutton from partner Matt Aitkenhead some preliminary Institute to generate maps which what local stakeholders used to demonstrate to were outcomes the project will produce. Island partner Jim McAdam the UK Falkland from Project with to engage in order also visited the Falklands Trust on the project. Steffilocal stakeholders and Jim organised in Bay and one at Fox – one in Stanley workshops two land to feedback into the project to allow managers order most are and to direct the outcomes so that they Jim applicable and accessible to them. Additionally, to include as many landowners directly visited many in to local politicians as well people as possible and spoke of the project. to raise awareness order Steffi gained her PhD at Aberystwyth University, studying the impact studying Steffi of ditch- her PhD at Aberystwyth gained University, and insects. also possesses an She bog on gas, vegetation a blanket blocking on and a which focussed on habitat restoration MSc in Managing the Environment remote partsBSc in Countryside in of North fieldwork Conservation. Her previous Islands. of the Falkland challenging environment for the her well prepared Wales to lead the two-and- SAERI in August 2018 and joined the Falklands in She arrived Darwina-half year project. Plus Soil Mapping DR STEFANIE CARTER DR STEFANIE | MANAGER PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2018-19 FOR HIGHLIGHTS SteffiThe arrival of the project manager Carter in August the project to a full swing. Steffi2018 brought organised on time for the start of thefor all the equipment to arrive field campaigns the two and field season in November Steffi and Roberto clearly the highlight of the year. were ChileJara Langhaus – a contracted from soil surveyor able to complete 113 soil survey points across – were joined were They Falkland. 32 farms on East and West by project partnersfor some of the work Sergio Radic the Universidad de MagallanesSchilling from and Anne the Natural History Jungblut from Museum. Anne col- D. lected soil samples at 38 sites to study the microbiology. DNA sequencing will enable her to report on the bacteria soils. in Falkland present and microfungi PROJECT OVERVIEW PROJECT sensing, soil of remote The project uses a combination a soil map for the to create modelling and fieldwork the Islands as interactive maps for as well Falkland drier has created Climate change local land managers. Islands and inappropriate the Falkland conditions across exacerbate may areas land in the wrong management detailedthe effect. important to provide It is therefore information on the soil characteristics for land managers peat and carbon a baseline for erosion, but also to create periods that include chemical fieldwork stock. Three analyses of soil samples and microbiological will provide the necessary data upon which the maps will be ground created. 6. DISCOVERY 100 ECOSYSTEMS AND EARTH SCIENCE
SAERI WORK | PROJECTS PROJECT OBJECTIVES Understand the propagating effects of Antarctic climate change globally by using • South Georgia as a sentinel site. • Establish a baseline understanding of the current environment and ecosystems on and around South Georgia • Install the first fully integrated Subantarctic Long-Term Ecological Research station to monitor environmental and ecosystem change • Develop into a self-sustained long-term monitoring initiative partnered with numerous international bodies
PROJECT OVERVIEW Discovery 100 is being designed so it can be implemented in a phased approach and be delivered over a number of years. The aim is to install equipment and design projects in the right order to ensure that the project reaches its proposed goals whilst maintain the science impact it was envisioned to deliver.
7. GAP PROJECT ECOSYSTEMS
PROJECT OVERVIEW This was a hugely ambitious project and had been extremely successful. All of the projects have been delivered except for a loligo egg survey and this will take place at the end of the 2nd season. There have been many accomplishments but one notable success this year was the publication of a synthesis of all GAP’s higher predator work. The paper is titled ‘Important at-sea areas of colonial breeding marine predators of the southern Patagonian shelf’ published in Nature Scientific Reports. The paper is a collaboration of many the of worlds movement ecology experts. Another notable success is that the Loligo survey will be going ahead after the 2nd season and we’ll purchase an RoV that will remain in the islands for future work.
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Project Manager Dr Alastair Baylis
SAERI WORK | PROJECTS Start date Jan 2018 End date Dec 2020 Funding organisations ROC Waitt Grant, Winifred Violet Scott Fund, FIG Environmental Studies Budget, PADI, Falkland Islands Fishing Companies Association (FIFCA) Project Partners Dr Rachael Orben (OSU), Dr Iain Staniland (BAS)
PROJECT OBJECTIVES Determine the abundance of fur seals in the Falkland Islands and confirm the location of breeding colonies • Quantify seal-fishery interaction on the Patagonian Shelf
PROJECT OVERVIEW The Fur Seal project was initiated in 2018 in response to an increase in seal-fishery interaction and a desire by industry, government and SAERI to better understand potential environmental impacts. Accordingly, the fur seal project is a collaborative project with government and industry. In 2018, our achievements included a population census, which provided the first pup abundance estimates since the 1930s and revealed that the Falkland Islands is home to the largest South American fur seal breeding
Right: Spot the tracker. An adult female South American fur seal carry a GPS tag returns to Bird Island, winter 2019. ©Al Baylis 66 SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 67
Al Baylis © An example of the at-sea movements of female fur seals. Each fur seals. Each of the at-sea movements of female An example Top: seal. The circles of an individual the GPS track colour represents fishing vessels – that is, when seals encountered where areas represent within 1 km of one-another at the same seals and fishing vessels were and spatially matched). time (i.e., temporally seals) of two Otariids (eared one Above: South American fur seals are Islands, the other Otariid seal being Southern at the Falkland that breed sea lions.
Al is a movement ecologist with a broad interest in the ecology and conservation interest a broad ecologist with Al is a movement has been to develop years biology of marine predators. His main focus in recent unique and multidisciplinary projects on little studied pinniped populations the Islands, around in collaboration with colleagues from at the Falkland breeding past changes governing includes understanding the processes This research world. in population conservation abundance, and and the ecological, genetic consequences of historical population explored crashes. His PhD (2004-2008) fur seals. Zealand differences in the foraging ecology of New seasonal and colony Veterinary Conservation Medicine (2014), Certificate in He also has a Postgraduate and expertise in pinniped aneasthesia. his interest which reflects www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ PROJECT MANAGER | DR AL BAYLIS MANAGER PROJECT Collated available tracking dataCollated for sea lions and fur available seals and using this data to quantify seal-fishery Shelf. Patagonian the entire interactions over South American fur seals in the Atlantic and conservation implications. Aquat Conserv Mar Freshw In total, 35 adult female fur seals where tracked over over tracked fur seals where In total, 35 adult female and 2019). work (2018 seasons of field two on adult female This included 9 satellite tags deployed the largest Cay, at Jason West fur seals breeding colony. breeding Falklands on-line: Baylis Census paper published and available the population ofAMM et al (2019) Re-evaluating size
HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2018-19 FOR HIGHLIGHTS population in the world. In 2019, the project shifted In 2019, the population in the world. and focussed on quantifying at-sea movements the gears satellite tags atwe deployed first time the For of fur seals. col- fur seal breeding which is the largest Cay, Jason West annually with 12,000 pups born (or in the Falklands ony Islands). at the Falkland 33 % of the total pup production of GPS tags at Bird the deployment repeated also We fine scale fur sealdata on Island, which provided in The project is now and diving behaviour. movement reporting. of analysis and the final stages
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Territories active Falkland Islands, Ascension Island, St. Helena, Tristan da Cunha
SAERI WORK | PROJECTS Project Managers Tara Pelembe Project assistants Juliette Zuvic, Daniela Baigorri Start date December 2014 End date December 2019 Funding organisations European Commission, B4Life Project Partners International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), BEST, SAERI Project URL www.best2portal.org www.south-atlantic-research.org/research/terrestrial-science/biodiversity-best2
PROJECT OBJECTIVES Promote the conservation of biodiversity and sustainable use of ecosystem services, including ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation, as a basis for sustainable development in OCTs. Enable, empower and strengthen local authorities and civil society organisations which are committed to local development, biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of ecosystem services in OCTs.
Right: Diana's Peak Grass and Lobelia grown at Peaks nursery, St Helena. ©Martina Peters - SHNT 68 SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 69 PROJECT OVERVIEW PROJECT facility, is a funding 2.0 Programme The BEST as part Commission supported by the European Flagship. for Life (B4Life) of the EU Biodiversity It aims to support of the BEST the objectives the continuation by facilitating ofInitiative and conservationimportant work environmental grant funding for small-scale and medium providing for biodiversity -scale field actions on the ground in theconservation and sustainable development (OCTs). and Territories Countries EU Overseas Research The South Atlantic Environmental the of coordinating is in charge Institute (SAERI) 2.0 Regional Hub for the South Atlantic BEST the following and covers (OTs) Territories Overseas da Ascension Island,areas: St Helena, Tristan Islands. Cunha, and the Falkland
Juliette graduated from the University of Southampton with a BSc Geography with of Southampton with a BSc Geography Juliette graduated the University from studying sand for her dissertation. Juliette spent dune management Oceanography, primarily Black and Veatch, consultancy company, some time at an environmental defence projects.supporting and coastal teams with flood She spent a few the rivers on tall ships, sailing working in the Northyears Sea, Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea was a six-month trip One of these on a number of educational sail training voyages. the Atlantic countries and crossing visiting eleven with a German high school onboard, worked and has twice. Juliette later qualified of Exeter with a the University PGCE from in the years as a secondary including three teacher for nine years, school Geography photography a sabbatical development, for professional Islands. Following Falkland her background to apply and was keen to the Falklands she returned and travel, to the classroom. until she returns work and skills in environmental knowledge SAERI as the at 2.0 programme Juliette will support of the BEST the final stages Hub project officer. South Atlantic PROJECT MANAGER | JULIETTE ZUVIC MANAGER PROJECT of three endemic nurseries on the island by providing endemic nurseries on the island by providing of three healthier and facilities for producing better propagation endemic plants. This includes drylandstronger species and species found in the cloud forest. The project successfully enhanced the capabilities
Nurseries for nature, St. Helena National Nurseries for nature, St. Helena National marine & terrestrial science Trust, By January the sixth and final project to be funded 2019, ‘Nurseries for 2276 was completed: Project by BEST endemic capability at St Helena’s increasing nature: (SHNT). lead by St Helena National Trust nurseries’ A range of terrestrial and marine projects were and marine projects were of terrestrial A range thematic priorities of species the covering undertaken, conservation,and biodiversity restoration, ecosystems and ecosystem services.protected areas HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2018-19 FOR HIGHLIGHTS 2.0 supported by the BEST were In total, six projects Small were Five region. in the South Atlantic programme and one in 2017. in 2016 being awarded Grants, four for the Ascension Island was awarded A Medium Grant study in 2017/18. Two nurseries increased their production area through construction of new nursery facilities. The new shade house was built at the Millennium Forest with benching, irrigation and soil sterilisation systems and an open day was hosted. At the Peaks Nursery, there was successful construction of a new polytunnel and upgraded tools SAERI WORK | PROJECTS and equipment. Scotland nursery received a laminar flow cabinet for fern propagation. Experimental fern propagation trials were carried out for three species of fern (St Helena Lobelia (Timeris scaevolifolia), St Helena Whitewood (Petrobium arboreum) and Diana’s Peak grass (Carex dianae). Training was given to the workers at the nurseries and increased dialogue between staff, as well as the physical equipment now in place, will provide long-term sustainability. Top: Teaplant next to Gumwood seedlings. ©Martina Peters - SHNT. Above: Nursery Officer with Salad Plant in nursery.© Martina Peters - SHNT
Above: Millenium forest and airstrip. ©Martina Peters - SHNT 70 SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 71 Increase knowledge on the benthos of the Falkland Islands. on the benthos of the Falkland knowledge Increase marine conservation, developing including or management Improving protection plans. integrated marine management for the conservation initiatives ecosystem-based and sustainable use of Developing and marine environments. terrestrial data systems on biodiversity. Developing
Falkland Islands Falkland Dr Ander M. de Lecea Shea Dr Marina Costa, Lauren Apr 2018 Dec 2020 Studies Budget, – Environmental Islands Government Darwin Falkland Initiative, Shackleton Scholarship Fund (SMSG), Marine Surveys Group (FIG), Shallow Islands Government Falkland St Andrews of University State University, Survey (BAS), Oregon British Antarctic www.south-atlantic-research.org/research/marine-science/fine-scaling-the-design-of- falkland-islands-marine-management-areas PROJECT OBJECTIVES PROJECT
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Right: James Clark Ross in prior to the the Antarctica commencement of the 2nd work. offshore Project Manager Project Assistants Start date End date Funding organisations Project Partners Project URL Territories active Territories
ISLANDS MARINE MANAGEMENT AREAS MANAGEMENT MARINE ISLANDS ECOSYSTEMS 10. FINE SCALING THE DESIGN OF FALKLAND FALKLAND OF THE DESIGN SCALING FINE 10. PROJECT OVERVIEW Phase II of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) Project included an Assessment of Fishing Closure Areas as potential MPAs against international criteria. Three areas were identified amounting to 15 % of Falkland Islands waters. Key baseline work is required for their effective design and management. Five steps have been identified for Falkland Islands Government approval – development of 1) economic consequences of the design (present and future), 2) Policy formulation, 3) Site Management Plans, 4) Suggested legislative framework and 5) Legacy Planning (resourcing, financial and human).
HIGHLIGHTS FOR 2018-19 Carried out the first expedition on board of the James Clark Ross to collect biodiversity and oceanography data in the Burdwood Bank. These include 48 hr multibeam and TOPAS survey, 4 Agassiz Trawl collections and 12 hours of mega fauna observations. Carried out the first of two inshore diving expeditions on board of the Golden Fleece. Dives were carried out in 15 locations resulting in 31 transects of 7 habitats and 290 good quality pictures. Where depths were too deep for divers, a deep-water camera was used resulting in 59 videos and 623 pictures collected in 8 locations. Pictures and video will be used to improve benthos biodiversity and abundance knowledge. Shackleton Scholarship Fund awarded in June 2019 to increase fieldwork effort. A new database to gather, manage and provide marine data was developed and implemented. A large effort for public outreach was conducted including public presentations (e.g. Yacht club general meeting, Stanley Museum, Watch group), events (e.g. Ocean Day), newspaper articles, reports, stakeholder meetings, videos, Facebook and Twitter posts.
Top: Curious sea-lion checking the divers off Bird Island during the April 2019 expedition ©SAERI/SMSG. Middle: Diver collecting data during the second inshore fieldwork. Above: Kelp forest. 72 SAERI WORK | PROJECTS 73
science and conservation. on marine worked I benthos (molluscs) from I996 and 200I and to cetaceans in moved DR MARINA COSTA interests My research focus on marine mammal's abundance primarily on dolphins' 2002. I worked using line transects and capture-recapture methods, and distribution and habitat use using Linear (GLMs), and Generalized Generalized MSc degrees I hold two models (GAMs). Additive and Policy in Biology and in Environmental of Milan, Italy), University (at the 'Statale' Economy of St and a PhD in Marine Biology (at the University Scotland). Andrews,
DR ANDER DE LECEA Dr Ander M. de Lecea: interest research Ander’s is in human aspects of the and marine environment having benthic ecology, had experience working on benthic food-webs, PROJECT MANAGERS PROJECT organic matter and its terrestrially-derived and with fisheries as working dispersion, as well Ander completed his BSc (Hons.) and aquaculture. to South Africa to moving MSc in Scotland, before post-doctoral by two This was followed do his PhD. position at the positions and a senior lecturer the enjoyed He greatly of Seychelles. University which social and applied aspects of his work, more position that the current was one of the reasons the amazing opportunity especially his interest; drew in the areas marine management to set up three stakeholders. with input from South Atlantic Divers completing the safety stop during the second inshore fieldwork. stop during the second inshore Above: Divers completing the safety FUNDING ORGANISATIONS SAERI WORK | PROJECTS
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FINANCIAL REPORT
2018-19 is SAERI’s second full year of operation which has allowed us to efficient cost control and management and more optimised recoveries focus more on development and consolidation after having success- from projects. fully established the independent entity in the previous year. SAERI
ANNUAL REPORT 18/19 | FINANCES continued to deliver high-level research, supervise PhD students and Recoveries for overheads from grants and arms’ length transactions work closely with stakeholders – most importantly the Falkland Islands between SAERI and its trading subsidiary provided 40% of Main Account Government – to further establish the institute as a solid partner and income, and covers 43% of core costs. delivery vehicle of world-class science. GOING CONCERN FINANCIAL CONTEXT TO OUR OPERATIONS SAERI’s statutory financial statements have been consolidated and Within SAERI, the nature of what we do brings ebbs and flows to both prepared by Mazars LLP under the historical cost convention in accord- our income and expenditure and this is highlighted this year specifically ance with applicable law and the Statement of Recommended Practice: with our Natural Capital Assessment project, which in 2017-18 received Accounting and Reporting by Charities preparing their accounts in its funding up front, yet only incurred the majority of its expenditure accordance with the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK in this 2018-19 financial year. As we continue to evolve and grow, and and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and the Financial Reporting Standard accumulate more years of history, the reports on operating expenditure applicable in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (FRS 102) and our trading subsidiary SAERI (Falklands) Limited will provide the and Charities Act 2011. key constant metrics for annual comparisons and growth figures. After making appropriate enquiries, the trustees have a reasonable KEY FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE INDICATORS expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in As SAERI has grown, we have been able to enhance our financial operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they performance indicators: continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements. Further details regarding the adoption of the going concern 1. Achievement of spend against forecast after mitigating factors within basis can be found in the Accounting Policies. a reasonable margin to demonstrate solid financial planning. 2. A reasonable success rate for the award of pipeline project TRUSTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES STATEMENT proposals. The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Report and 3. Maintenance of unrestricted reserves, with preferable growth, the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United through the achievement of an annual break-even budget as a Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted minimum requirement Accounting Practice). 4. Solid and accurate management of restricted funds measured by successful audits and adherence to grant rules and financial The law applicable to charities in England & Wales requires the Trustees reporting regulations to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true 5. Ensuring cash flow covers an expanding portfolio of projects and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and the Group and of the through annual funding gaps; incoming resources and application of resources of the Group for that 6. Maximised recoveries of overheads from projects; period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to: 7. An unqualified audit for the Group. • select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; • observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP; This year, and against all indicators, SAERI was successful. With the • make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; financial systems firmly in place, coupled with proprietary knowledge • prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it gained in our first year of operation, we were able to run a break-even is inappropriate to presume that the Group will continue in operation. budget, with a slight improvement in unrestricted reserves, more time will be available to consolidate learnings into SAERI (Falklands) Limited The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that and begin to develop the trading elements further. are sufficient to show and explain the Charity and the Group's trans- actions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial PRINCIPAL FUNDING position of the Group and enable them to ensure that the financial FIG continues to provide core funding support to SAERI however, SAERI statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity (Accounts is also committed to reducing this dependency on the government over and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the trust deed. time – but not to its detriment. This year saw a reduction of 8% in our They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Charity and subvention request, providing 28% of our Main Account income (new the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and income and project recoveries), and a 30% contribution to core costs. detection of fraud and other irregularities. This is a great improvement on last year, due to factors such as: our continued commitment to FIG to reduce our dependency on Subvention TERESA BOWERS over time, thereby driving increased activity in the trading subsidiary, more DEPUTY DIRECTOR – BUSINESS & PROGRAMMES 77 Section 4 cover image: xxxxxx
STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
CONSTITUTION POLICIES ADOPTED FOR THE INDUCTION AND TRAINING OF The objects of the Charity remain, for the public benefit: TRUSTEES 1. the advancement of education and research; SAERI relies on the Charity Commission guidance ‘The Essential Trustee’
2. the advancement of environmental protection or improvement; and as well as provides for all Trustees an information pack containing ANNUAL REPORT 18/19 | FINANCES 3. the promotion of sustainable development, in particular (but not financial information, the latest business plan, the constitution of the exclusively) by: charity and information on the Board, its structure, the organisational structure (a) the advancement of environmental protection or improvement; and and the policies of the organisation. It has a set of Terms of Reference for (b) the advancement of education and research; the Board as well as the Audit and Remuneration committees.
particularly (but not exclusively) in relation the environment of the PAY POLICY FOR SENIOR STAFF Falkland Islands and the South Atlantic region. The Board approved a salary scale for all staff permanent and casual. There are grades and steps within those grades. The senior staff are Sustainable development means “development that meets the needs of employed at the same levels which were applied when SAERI was part the present without compromising the ability of future generations to of the Falkland Islands Government. The Chairman of the Board is meet their own needs”. responsible for negotiating the salary package of the Executive Director, and the salaries of the Senior Management Team are recommended by METHOD OF APPOINTMENT OR ELECTION OF TRUSTEES the Executive Director to the Board and the Remuneration Committee. The management of the Charity and the Group is the responsibility of the Trustees who are elected and co-opted under the terms of the Charitable An organisation-wide cost of living increase of 1% was approved by the Incorporated Organisation. A robust process for the application, assess- Board, and no discretionary bonuses awarded. ment and appointment of Trustees is in place and individuals identified to complete the full board. ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE AND DECISION MAKING In the 2018-19 financial year, the founding Board of Trustees tasked to select and appoint a full Board, achieved this objective, and is now structured thus:
CHAIRMAN Peter Judge MBE
TREASURER COMPANY SECRETARY To be filled Mrs Teresa Bowers*
FALKLAND ISLANDS CHAIRMAN, FORTUNA SAERI'S EXECUTIVE BRITISH ANTACTIC UNIVERSITY OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT BOARD GROUP, FALKLAND DIRECTOR SURVEY ABERDEEN OCEANOGRAPHIC CENTRE MEMBER ISLANDS Dr Paul Brickle Dr Teal Riley Professor Professor Richard Stuart Piertney Sanders Andrew Gaule Stuart Wallace
SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE REGIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
* Mrs Teresa Bowers also fulfils the ex-officio invitation to the Board as the Deputy Director – Business & Programmes, presenting the financial position of the organisation.
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The Board has issued a Delegation of Authority which clearly lays out As SAERI continues to grow and mature as an organisation, it is areas of decision-making and yet empowers the Executive Director to cementing excellent relationships. Our track record with Defra through be flexible in his authority and nimble in his decision-making where its Darwin Initiative, is proving a capable delivery partner who produces
ANNUAL REPORT 18/19 | FINANCES necessary. excellent work, on time and on budget. We do realise, however, that there is an important need to diversify funding sources and this will be a The structure of the organisation was reviewed at the strategic planning major focus for the 2019-20 financial year when the Deputy Director – workshop with the Board and deemed fit-for-purpose. The next finan- Science is on board. cial year will see further consolidation and the completion of the Senior Management Team. TRUSTEES' RESPONSIBILITIES STATEMENT RISK MANAGEMENT The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Trustees' Report and SAERI has a Risk Management Policy and a Risk Matrix which is the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United reviewed annually by the Board along with all the Institute’s Policies and Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Procedures. Accounting Practice).
The Trustees have assessed the major risks to which the Charity and The law applicable to charities in England & Wales requires the Trustees the Group is exposed, in particular those related to the operations and to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true finances of the Charity and the Group, and are satisfied that systems and fair view of the state of affairs of the Charity and the Group and of and procedures are in place to mitigate exposure to the major risks. the incoming resources and application of resources of the Group for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are There have been no instances of fraud. required to: • select suitable accounting policies and then apply them consistently; • observe the methods and principles in the Charities SORP; PLANS FOR FUTURE PERIODS • make judgments and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent; FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS • prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it 1. Where SAERI has held a strategic planning session with its Board, is inappropriate to presume that the Group will continue in operation. a Strategy document will be prepared and submitted for approval to guide future business planning and operational measurements to The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records ensure continued success. that are sufficient to show and explain the Charity and the Group's 2. SAERI will look to complete the staffing of the Senior Management transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the Team through the appointment of a Deputy Director – Science. financial position of the Group and enable them to ensure that the The funding was secured this financial year, and recruitment will financial statements comply with the Charities Act 2011, the Charity begin in earnest in the 2019-20 financial year. (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 and the provisions of the 3. A 12-month secondment to University of Dundee for the trust deed. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the development of the IMS-GIS Data Centre is outlined under Charity and the Group and hence for taking reasonable steps for the Unrestricted Funds. prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.
INFORMATION ON FUNDRAISING PRACTICES SAERI relies on relationships and market scanning to identify grant opportunities. Additionally, SAERI has successfully implemented a number of activities for fund raising – these include but not limited to: • Grant meetings between SAERI Senior Management and relevant Board Members where necessary and possible to scope out opportunity and support. • The first steps in the formulation of a Science Advisory -Committee administered by the board of trustees. Its remit will include the formulation of science strategy with staff scientists, granting opportunities and funding generally • Structured grant mapping and internal collaboration with a view to a more complete Fundraising Strategy
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AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019 UNRESTRICTED RESTRICTED TOTAL TOTAL ANNUAL REPORT 18/19 | FINANCES FUNDS FUNDS FUNDS FUNDS 2019 2019 2019 2018 £ £ £ £ INCOME FROM Donations and legacies 128,847 653,615 782,462 1,699,350 Other trading activities 195,044 - 195,044 261,385 Other income 114,459 11,248 125,707 70,353 Total income 438,350 664,863 1,103,213 2,031,088
EXPENDITURE ON Raising funds 146,045 - 146,045 204,263 Charitable activities 278,451 988,426 1,266,877 1,189,443 Total expenditure 424,496 988,426 1,412,922 1,393,706
Net income 13,854 (323,563) (309,709) 637,382 Transfers between Funds (5,365) 5,365 - - Net income before other recognised gains and losses 8,489 (318,198) (309,709) 637,382 Net movement in funds 8,489 (318,198) (309,709) 637,382
RECONCILIATION OF FUNDS Total funds brought forward 126,807 510,575 637,382 - Total funds carried forward 135,296 192,377 327,673 637,382
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2019
2019 2018 £ £
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Net cash (used in)/provided by operating activities (131,511) 629,760
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES Purchase of tangible/intangible fixed assets (27,798) (53,642) Net cash used in investing activities (27,798) (53,642)
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the year (159,309) 576,118 Cash and cash equivalents brought forward 576,118 - Cash and cash equivalents carried forward 416,809 576,118
80 CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30 JUNE 2019 2019 2018 ANNUAL REPORT 18/19 | FINANCES £ £ £ £ FIXED ASSETS Intangible assets 537 - Tangible assets 57,961 45,341 58,498 45,341 CURRENT ASSETS Debtors 53,667 98,726 Cash at bank and in hand 416,809 576,118 470,476 674,844 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (201,301) (82,803) Net current assets 269,175 592,041 Net assets 327,673 637,382
CHARITY FUNDS Restricted funds 192,377 510,575 Unrestricted funds 135,296 126,807 Total funds 327,673 637,382
CHARITY BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30 JUNE 2019 2019 2018 £ £ £ £ FIXED ASSETS Intangible assets 537 - Tangible assets 54,040 40,113 Investments 1 1 54,578 40,114
CURRENT ASSETS Debtors 30,522 90,202 Cash at bank 414,093 572,891 444,615 663,093 Creditors: amounts falling due within one year (187,162) (67,657) Net current assets 257,453 595,436 Net assets 312,031 635,550
CHARITY FUNDS Restricted funds 192,377 516,258 Unrestricted funds 119,654 119,292 Total funds 312,031 635,550
81 ANNUAL REPORT 18/19 | FINANCES 82 - - - - £ £ 221 283 250 306 1,744 2018 2018 100% 3,087 57,122 2,500 3,000 15,643 82,998 261,385 109,874 £13,998 £29,783 1,116,667 582,683 204,263 £(14,140) £195,044 1,699,350 £(181,046) Shareholding TOTAL FUNDS TOTAL TOTAL FUNDS TOTAL - - - - - SAERI (Falklands) Limited (Falklands) SAERI £ £ 132 130 102 2019 1,307 1,500 2,250 3,624 2019 69,610 67,390 48,999 146,045 195,044 123,983 782,462 658,479 1,699,350 TOTAL FUNDS TOTAL TOTAL FUNDS TOTAL ------£ - £ 2019 2019 5,500 648,115 653,615 RESTRICTED FUNDS RESTRICTED RESTRICTED FUNDS RESTRICTED - - - - - £ 132 130 102 2019 1,307 1,500 2,250 3,624 69,610 67,390 48,999 £ 146,045 195,044 2019 10,364 118,483 128,847 1,699,350 UNRESTRICTED FUNDS UNRESTRICTED UNRESTRICTED FUNDS UNRESTRICTED Net income from trading activitiesNet income from Accountancy delivery cost Project assets of tangible fixed Depreciation Specialist consultants Corporation tax Travel - national Travel General expenses Legal expenses Entertainment Charitable donations Consulting Bank fees Advertising & marketing Total donations and legacies Total Total 2018 Total SUBSIDIARY TRADING INCOME TRADING SUBSIDIARY Limited income (Falklands) SAERI EXPENSES TRADING SUBSIDIARY sold Cost of goods Grants Donations SAERI (FALKLANDS) LIMITED (FALKLANDS) SAERI Subsidiary name Basis of control % shareholding Equity assets as at 30 June 2019 Total liabilities as at 30 June 2019 Total equity as at 30 June 2019 Total for the period ended 30 June 2019 Turnover for the period ended 30 June 2019 Expenditure for the period ended 30 June 2019 Profit TRADING ACTIVITIES TRADING PRINCIPAL SUBSIDIARIES PRINCIPAL INCOME FROM DONATIONS AND LEGACIES DONATIONS FROM INCOME 1 - - £ £ 2018 2018 40,113 40,114 45,341 45,341 119,292 510,575 516,258 126,807 637,382 592,041 637,382 635,550 635,550 595,436 £ £ 98,726 576,118 90,202 572,891 (67,657) 674,844 663,093 (82,803) 1 £ £ 537 537 2019 2019 57,961 54,578 312,031 312,031 119,654 58,498 192,377 192,377 54,040 269,175 327,673 135,296 327,673 257,453 £ £ 53,667 30,522 444,615 414,093 416,809 470,476 (187,162) (201,301) Unrestricted funds Unrestricted funds Total Net current assets Net current Net assets CHARITY FUNDS Restricted funds amounts falling due within one year Creditors: Net current assets Net current Net assets CHARITY FUNDS Restricted funds funds Unrestricted funds Total Cash at bank amounts falling due within one year Creditors: CURRENT ASSETS Debtors FIXED ASSETS Intangible assets assets Tangible Investments Cash at bank and in hand FIXED ASSETS Intangible assets assets Tangible CURRENT ASSETS Debtors STAFF COSTS STAFF COSTS WERE AS FOLLOWS:
ANNUAL REPORT 18/19 | FINANCES 2019 2018 £ £ Wages and salaries 454,054 453,138 Social security costs 11,133 11,551 Other pension costs 26,196 20,831 491,383 485,520
THE AVERAGE NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED BY THE CHARITY DURING THE YEAR WAS AS FOLLOWS: 2019 2018 No. No. Employees 12 12
AUDITOR’S OPINION – MAZARS LLC
We have audited the financial statements of South Atlantic BASIS FOR OPINION Environmental Research Institute (the ‘Charity’) and its subsidiary (the We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards 'Group') for the year ended 30 June 2019 which comprise the on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities, the Consolidated and under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s Charity Balance Sheets, the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows and responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our notes to the financial statements, including a summary of significant report. We are independent of the Charity in accordance with the ethical accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard and we have fulfilled Accounting Standards, including FRS 102 “The Financial Reporting our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland” We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice). appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements: CONCLUSIONS RELATING TO GOING CONCERN • give a true and fair view of the state of the Group's and the Parent We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation Charity’s affairs as at 30 June 2019 and of the Group's incoming to which the ISAs (UK) require us to report to you where: resources and application of resources for the year then ended; • the Trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the • have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom preparation of the financial statements is not appropriate; or Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and • the Trustees have not disclosed in the financial statements any • have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the identified material uncertainties that may cast significant doubt about Charities Act 2011. the Group's and the Charity’s ability to continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting for a period of at least twelve months from the date when the financial statements are authorised for issue.
83 2019 2018 £ £ Wages and salaries 454,054 453,138 Social security costs 11,133 11,551 Other pension costs 26,196 20,831 491,383 485,520 SOUTH ATLANTIC FALKLAND ISLANDS OFFICE ENVIRONMENTAL Stanley Cottage, Stanley, FIQQ 1ZZ, Falkland Islands RESEARCH INSTITUTE Tel. +500 27374 Email. [email protected] www.south-atlantic-research.org UK REGISTERED OFFICE Falkland House, 14 Broadway, Westminster, London SW1H 0BH, United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)20 3745 1731 @SAERI_FI SAERI (FALKLANDS) LIMITED Stanley Cottage, Stanley, FIQQ 1ZZ, Falkland Islands