Dr Andrew Kenny
PRINCIPAL ECOSYSTEM SCIENTIST
Dr Kenny is a Principal Ecosystem Scientist. He is Chair of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Steering Group on Human Activities, Pressures and Impacts (HAPISG). Dr Kenny is part of the UK Delegations to the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) and the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC) advising on deep sea Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) management measures and Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs). Dr Kenny is a marine benthic ecologist and ecosystem scientist with over 20 years of experience conducting research into the effects of various type of human activities on the seabed environment. He has published over 60 scientific papers and articles on a wide range of subjects, including impacts of bottom trawling activities on deep sea Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems, seabed habitat mapping, ecological risk assessment and modelling benthic ecosystem food-webs. He is also the principal chapter author of a well-known academic handbook on "methods for sampling marine benthos" now in its 4th edition.
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