Save Our Seagrass - Ireland team

Dr. Liam Morrison

Research fellow, School of Natural Sciences NUI Galway, Ireland

Liam’s research interests include the presence, speciation and bioavailability of toxic and essential trace elements and organic contaminants in marine and freshwater ecosystems, obtaining data to support policy on environmental protection.

He has published a huge number of papers on ocean subjects including seagrass.

Dr. Juan Yanez

Post-Doctoratal Researcher, University of Galway

Juan has a PhD in marine science, technology and management, an MSC in oceanography and a bachelors in marine biology. He is currently undertaking post doctoral research at the university of Galway leading the seagrass restoration project. He has a special interest in ocean conservation and biodiversity Maintenance and has been involved in the stakeholder engagement projects at sites throughout Galway.

Within the CLIMAREST project Juan is working on development of tools which can be used to restore the seagrass echo systems in Galway Bay, Tralee Bay, Rusheen Bay in Ireland and at replica sites in Andalusia, Spain.

Dr. Sebastian Hennige

Marine Scientist at the University of Edinburgh

Sebastian is examining the impact of climate change and pollutants on marine organisms and ecosystems, with particular focus on tropical and cold-water coral reefs. He explores how past events have impacted upon marine ecosystems and organisms, examining how organisms have adapted to survive in a wide variety of present-day systems, and uses aquaria experiments to predict how future projected changes and pollution will impact organism fitness.

Stephen Park

Funding Coordinator and logistics

Stephen is a Film Industry Master Carpenter, Craftsman and Art Director.

He is based in County Cork and is a founding member of the seagrass restoration project Ireland team.

Clément Flornoy

Community and Governmental Affairs Liaison

Clément has a B.Sc. in International Relations, Politics and Economics from University College Dublin and has been involved in projects for the UN SDGs.

Also a surf instructor for several years in France and a member of Surfrider Foundation Europe. Highly motivated with regard to ocean protection and coastal restoration due to a strong passion for the ocean for most of his life.

Strong communicator, able to educate all sorts of people around the world.

Terence Bulley

Founder and Chairman

Having begun a career as a semi-professional diver, Terence joined the film industry becoming a Special Effects Cameraman and has now been a Director of Photography, while also specialising in underwater filming, for the past forty-five years.

As well as recent shooting credits such as TV series ‘Strike Back’, ‘Star Wars – The Last Jedi’ and ‘Assassin’s Creed’ he has also amassed over a thousand hours of underwater work including filming oil pipelines from diving bells and submarines, shooting underwater sequences for TV dramas and commercials, several documentary series around the world and underwater sequences for movies such as ‘Unknown’ starring Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger. Having witnessed the steady degradation of our oceans over the past fifty years, Terence felt compelled to act in some way to help prevent disaster. Consequently, over the past six years, he has established Blue Ocean Watch.

Terence is a Fellow International of The Explorers Club, an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Yach International Music Video Awards in Poland. He is a sailor, holds a Private Pilot License and has flown extensively in Europe, Africa and America.

MANAGEMENT

Michael Davies

International Lawyer

Michael Davies is an English lawyer, having qualified in 1973. He has a bachelor’s degree in Law from London University and an MA in Art History from the University of Buckingham. In addition to London, he has worked and lived in France, Dubai, Cairo and Warsaw. He has been resident in Poland since 1991 where he was for many years a partner in the international law firm of Allen & Overy. He continues to advise on projects in Poland and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe. He is qualified as a divemaster and holds a licence to operate a power boat under UNECE Resolution 40.

Regula Bulley

Education Advisor

Swiss born Regula has been a primary school teacher since 1975, has brought up four children and lived and worked in Switzerland, England and France.

Her dedication to fairness and the rights of children together with her innovative and stimulating approach to teaching has always made her an esteemed member of teaching staff. Attached to the educational group Regula will assist in the creation of programmes for the younger ages.

Guy Greville-Morris

Writer, Film Director, Engineer - Head of Research & Development

Formerly Production Designer and Director on many Hollywood movies and commercials, has worked with Sea Shepherds for whom he designed and built equipment for recording and logging the incidents of aquatic mammals trapped and killed by Pacific drift nets.

Guy has been working on BOW with Terence Bulley since the start.

Earle Sebastian

Creative Director

Earle has designed, produced, conceived and directed for over two decades.

As a film maker, he has directed Bono, Madonna, Massive Attack, Beyonce, Missy Elliott, is on-going creative director for Alicia Keys and also collaborating with her for a documentary in Africa for Keep A Child Alive, a global non-profit.

For many years, the Black Ball in NY has been designed by Creative Director Earle Sebastian and he will oversee all BOW fund raising events

Max Bulley

Maritime Advisor

Former Laser sailing champion he then qualified and worked as a Captain and is now a Yacht broker in Monaco.

John Pert

Fleet logistics

As a British Airways Boing 747 Captain for thirty-two years, John’s expertise is mainly in logistics and business management (BSc Hons).

However, over the past few years, working with Terence, he has specialised in script development and co-production agreements, particularly international co-production treaties, tax incentives and government-funded schemes.
A founder member of BOW, John is passionate about producing films that can make a difference.

Amy Whitehouse

Social media strategist

Amy is a Marine science graduate based in Devon, England, passionate about our oceans and finding ways to preserve them.
She joined Blue Ocean Watch to empower and spread greater knowledge to society about the complications the environment faces.
She loves diving, paddle boarding and have a cloud obsession.

Barbara BERT-ERBOUL

Webmaster

Graduate in law and anthropology, Barbara is a slow traveller and surf swell chaser since a few years now, living in a old Mercedes truck on the Atlantique coast to invent a modern nomadic way of life, far away from the actual standart comfort.

That leads to a very interesting level of re-using, recycling, and fixing pretty much… everything.

Likewise on this road, every single drop of water is carried and cherished.

BOW SCIENTISTS

Prof. Alexander More

Educational Programming and Communications Director

Alexander is Associate Professor at LIU, the Climate Change and Research Associate at Harvard University where he leads a project on the impact of climate change on ecosystem health and the economy in the last millennium. Alexander has worked in 25 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. A master diver, he has conducted many underwater environmental and historical surveys in every continent. He routinely consults with Fortune-100 companies on climate and economic growth and leads communications for his initiatives at Harvard, LIU and for Blue Ocean Watch.

Professor J. Murray Roberts

Professor of Applied Marine Biology & Ecology at the University of Edinburgh

Murray’s research activities are working to advance understanding of the biology and ecology of cold-water corals and provide the information needed for their long-term management and conservation.

Dr. Dan Exton

Head of Research at Operation Wallacea

Dan is a marine ecologist specialising in remote marine fieldwork. His research focuses on coral reefs and the people who depend on them, and he has broad ranging interests spanning coral reef ecology, small-scale fisheries, tropical marine conservation and marine biogeochemistry. A highly experienced diver, he has been involved in managing remote marine expeditions for 15 years, during which time he has introduced more than 5000 high school and university students to the wonders of the underwater world. Dan also holds an honorary lectureship at Essex University and is a research associate at Oxford University.

Jenny Mallon BSc

Coral restoration program manager

Jenny is at the University of Glasgow, Scotland investigating biogeochemical techniques to quantify coral reef metabolism.  As an interdisciplinary researcher, she has expertise in reef restoration, coral sexual reproduction, scientific communication, and project management and also trained and experienced in coral restoration techniques: in-water nurseries, propagation, out-planting, microfragmentation, assisted fertilisation of coral gametes and rearing of juvenile corals, as well as monitoring of survivorship and growth. Jenny has extensive experience of in-water research; is a PADI Dive Instructor / Dive Master / Emergency First Responder and has experience planning, supervising and teaching scientific dives with over 100 students and research assistants per year through her position at Operation Wallacea, where she also trains staff, oversees lesson planning, and mentors students.

Sophie Schönherr BSc

Marine scientist

Sophie is a Biology graduate from Maastricht University who specialized in marine science in Australia and the Caribbean in the third year of her Bachelor of Science.

Her passion for the ocean has led her to become a certified Divemaster and to work in various fields of marine science all around the world to acquire different sets of tools to study the “blue world”.

She has a particular interest in coral reefs and aspires to contribute to marine research that will allow to understand, protect and conserve marine life. To achieve the latter, Sophie is convinced that the education of young and old, an interdisciplinary research approach, and the prediction of future scenarios become imperative.

Amelia Cody BSc

Marine Biologist

Amelia is currently working at a five-star resort in the Maldives managing the Coral Reef Regeneration Project which includes implementing coral propagation techniques to grow the frame and line nursery as well as monitoring frames and coral colonies.

She also has a responsibility to raise awareness to staff, guests and management regarding the environment and marine life, through health monitoring of the reef and informative talks and lectures.

Amelia is also in charge of social media management and prepares monthly reports regarding ongoing projects and relevant environmental issues on the resort to be submitted to the Operational Manager.

Sian Henley

Marine Scientist

Sian Henley is a marine scientist at the University of Edinburgh, working on changes in ocean chemistry and ecosystems in the Arctic and Antarctic in response to climate, sea ice and ocean change.

In summer 2019, Sian joined a team onboard the research ship RRS James Clark Ross to examine the impact of sea ice losses in the Arctic on microscopic plants (phytoplankton) and animals living in the water and at the seafloor of the Barents Sea.

Understanding these effects now will help scientists to predict future changes as sea ice losses driven by climate change continue.

Dr. David Medio

Marine Environmental Scientist

David has over 25 years’ experience.

His expertise focuses on coastal zone management (CZM), marine policy and strategy, biodiversity conservation, fisheries management, tropical marine ecology, marine mammals, environmental, social and strategic impact assessment (ESIA/SEA), marine spatial planning (MSP), offshore industry oil and gas and marine renewable energy.

Professor Kenny Black

Principal Investigator in Marine Ecology SAMS (Scottish Association for Marine Science)

Kenny has published 72 ISI peer-reviewed journal papers on topics
ranging from organic chemistry to modelling environmental impacts of aquaculture.

Professor Angela Hatton

Director of Science & Technology – National Oceanography Centre (NOC)

Formerly Director for Research at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), Angela is also Chair of NERC Science Board and a member of the RCUK Individual Merit Promotion Panel and the G7 Future of the Oceans Science Advisory Team. She has been awarded two NERC fellowships, a Challenger fellowship and is an elected fellow of the Society of Biology and the Scottish Association for Marine Science. Professor Hatton’s research interests focus on microbial biogeochemical processes and their impact on climate and marine ecosystem function, with a specific interest in marine biogas production.

Dr. Anuschka Miller

Marine Biogeochemist. Head of Communications and Director of the Ocean Explorer Centre, SAMS (Scottish Association for Marine Science)

Anuschka teaches science communication and leads the SAMS communications team that delivers web development, media relations, filmmaking, social media, publications, branding, marketing, public engagement, event management.
Committed to ocean literacy and conservation, she also conceptualised, developed and now directs the Ocean Explorer Centre in Oban, Scotland.

BOW PRODUCTION TEAM

Ellen Cuylaerts

Underwater & Wildlife Photographer

Multi award winner and world-renowned marine life photographer, Ellen’s incredibly sensitive and emotive images are vital in the pursuit of conservation of marine life and education about our oceans. In June 2017 she addressed heads of State at the United Nations highlighting the plight of photographers and filmmakers engaging in protection of the oceans.

Ellen has a master’s degree in modern history and education and as a Fellow Explorer International, is a member of the Flag & Honours Committee of the Explorers Club. She is also Curator of World Ocean day by United Nations Image competition.

Lars Richter

Filmmaker

Camera technician and Cinematographer, his list of movie credits testifies to a passion and dedication for a fast evolving media. Also being a talented Stills Photographer, his comprehension of lighting, content and composition is invaluable to the communication of our program’s content and documentaries.

He is a diver, a father and speaks four languages.

Roger Wielgus

Director

Roger is an award winning director and producer of over 300 hours of movies, series, tv movies, in domains such as fiction, scientific documentaries, historical documentaries and Special Venues Theater films using breaking technologies like Douglas Trumbull Showscan™.

Dixie Dean

Filmmaker

Dixie has worked all over the world as a freelance filmmaker for most of the major European and American television networks including Discovery Channel and National Geographic.

François Habert

Filmmaker

Writer / Director / Photographer François started his career in the eighties as advertising copywriter in agencies such as Havas or RSCG and in the nineties began in film production, making commercials and corporate films. Now with over 300 films to his name, he has extensive experience in filming techniques, styles and writing and also a good understanding of communication channels, which make him a kind of chameleon at ease in many visual needs.

Jason Bulley

Offshore Operations Director

As Director of Photography, Jason has worked in over 65 countries designing and shooting sequences underwater, in the air and on the ground and in some extremely challenging environments such as the Arctic circle, various deserts and three trips to North Korea. Warner Brothers employed him as underwater camera operator on Harry Potter.

Jahawi Bertolli

Professional Diver & Underwater Cinematographer

Born and bred in Kenya, natural history film maker specialising in the underwater world, formerly worked with Oceans Below Video Production Company producing official PADI promo videos, has also directed and filmed documentaries from the remote northern coast of Kenya to the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador.

He is also an accomplished music producer and score composer with a string of releases and remixes on well know record labels.

Chris Haws

Film Maker and Media Consultant

An experimental Psychologist by training (MA Hons), Chris is a former writer, producer and director of BBC award winning documentaries, on scientific, technological and medical topics. He subsequently became involved in the launch of the UK’s Channel 4, and in 1985, he founded a highly successful international independent production company, which produced over 400 hours of programming for major broadcasters around the world.

Chris served on the Advisory Board of the Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership and in 2008 was appointed Senior Science Advisor to Discovery’s Science Channel.

Michael Maes

Extreme Wildlife Cinematographer

His work has been broadcast on Nat Geo Wild, BBC, Outside Television, CBC and received recognition at various international film festivals.
He produces films with integrity, serving to both educate and inform the general public about environmental issues. Michael was part of a scientific Arctic expedition, documenting the effects of climate change, which sailed under ‘Flag 101’ of the renowned Explorers Club, of which he is a Fellow.
He is a founding Navigator of the Central Caribbean Marine Institute focusing on coral reef restoration, research on coral resilience, and ocean education. He recently produced the technical framework for “Reefs Go Life!”, a live underwater interactive educational broadcast program for children around the world.

Françoise Noyon

Filmmaker

A Director of Photography and Camera Operator on movies and television series, lecturer at film schools including IIIS, ESRA, ETTIC, FEMIS, CIFAP ENS Louis Lumière, EICAR (BTS audio- visual) and heads various committees and evaluation programs relating to leading-edge camera technology.

Jeffrey Daunton

Edinburgh Corporate Coordinator (Also Dialogue Coach)

Having trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Jeffrey has been acting in theatre, films and television for most of his life and was appointed Resident Director at the Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh, Scotland.

He has acted in and coordinated many films either directed or produced by Terence Bulley.

Eric Demay

Filmmaker

Eric was the founder and President of “DOLPHY Observatory” between 1992 and 1995 and the Tursiops group since 1993. His unique communication with dolphins has made him a legend in the cetacean world. Since 1992 he has worked with thousands of dolphins for scientific and study groups and many Oceanographic institutes worldwide and has also swam with whale sharks, Dugongs, Mantas rays, sea lions, humpback whales, blue whales and more.

Eric is an award-winning director of documentaries on the subject, is the author of various books on dolphins and cetaceans and shares his experience with a variety of scientific groups.

BOW AMBASSADORS

William Winram

Ocean Explorer

An ocean explorer and storyteller who works to motivate future generations to protect and respect our oceans.

He is an IUCN Oceans Ambassador, Fellow International of the Explorers Club and founder of The Watermen Project, an NPO dedicated to ocean conservation. A world record freediver, an accomplished photographer and filmmaker William spends his time traveling the world for exploration/conservation related projects and events, conferences and expeditions organised for The Watermen Project.

He gives talks and teaches on topics ranging from risk and stress management to optimised breathing and breath-hold diving.
William broke countless world records including 90 meters using a pair of fins and 145 meters in the discipline – weighted sled down swim up on is own power.

He has has turned his unique diving skills and knowledge of sharks to provide direct environmental work by tagging, photographing, filming, tagging and taking tissue samples of various species of shark.

Jacques Rougerie

Architect

For more than 30 years, Jacques Rougerie, passionate about the sea and space, has based his research and achievements on a bionic architecture based on biomimicry and sustainable development. His forward-looking vision and taste for new technologies produce a better integration of habitat in the natural environment, especially marine. In this sense he draws his inspiration both from Leonardo da Vinci’s legacy and from his faith in human genius.

With this in mind, he built centers of the sea, underwater museums, habitats and underwater laboratories, transparent hulls, and imagines major projects always related to the marine environment. He thus leads his two passions, the sea and the architecture. Experiencing his own achievements as a true explorer of the underwater world.

The diversity of achievements of cultural and scientific projects, museums, aquariums, sports facilities, airports, university buildings … of multifunctional equipment and avant-garde urbanism, reveals the wealth of contemporary creativity that the agency of architecture Jacques Rougerie.

François Sarano

Scientific Advisor

One of the world’s leading experts on the Sperm Whale. He was scientific advisor for Jacques Cousteau aboard the Calypso responsible for WWF France’s “Fisheries Resources” department, diver, scientific advisor and co-writer of the film Oceans directed by Jacques Perrin co-founder of the Longitude 181 Nature association with Vincent Ohl whose objective is the protection of the marine environment and equitable sharing of its resources, based on the International Charter of the Responsible Diver.

He has written many books on ocean subjects his latest work, published in Actes Sud, Le retour de Moby Dick, or what sperm whales teach us about oceans and men received the Jacques Lacroix Prize for Literature and Philosophy from the French Academy in 2018.
He is a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur (2017), offers a program of lectures for the general public, businesses and communities, to raise awareness of the importance of letting a place for wild life, essential to the development of Humanity.

Rory Golden

Diver, Speaker, Explorer

Rory Golden was the first Irish diver to visit the site of RMS TITANIC in August 2000 as a member of an expedition that recovered 800 artefacts from nearly 4,000 metres. In 2005, he was a member of a second expedition that was broadcast as a documentary, “A Journey to Remember”, on BBC. In 2013 he was a member of the Jeff Bezos Expeditions F-1 Engine Recovery Project which recovered Apollo F-1 rocket engines from 4200 metres in the North Atlantic, including the centre engine from Apollo 11. The team was awarded a Citation of Merit by the Explorers Club, of which he is a member.

Former MD of Virgin Records Ireland for 15 years, he founded his own company, Flagship Scubadiving. He has been involved in diving since 1976, as instructor, commercial diver, as well as P.R.O. for the Irish Underwater Council.

David French

Strategy Advisor

Founder and CEO of ‘My Drop in The Oceans,’ director of the Antinea Foundation and the ‘Changing Oceans Expedition’.

David Concannon

Lawyer & Ocean Explorer

David has more than 25 years of experience organizing and leading expeditions, including three expeditions to explore the R.M.S. Titanic and the expeditions that found and recovered the Apollo F-1 engines used to launch men to the moon. He has served as a legal and operational advisor to several international organizations and as General Counsel to The Explorers Club and X-PRIZE Foundation.

He is a Fellow and former Vice President and Director of The Explorers Club, and a member of the Sea-Space Symposium.

Samuel Kame-Domguia

Strategy Advisor

Samuel’s story is about a humble upbringing in rural Cameroon. Today, he is a distinguished leader in integrative strategic thinking, having given more than 100 international conferences on long-term geostrategic challenges and opportunities related to Africa’s oceans and seas in various high-level academic, business and military forums, including the Institute of Advanced Studies in National Defence (a French public institution under the direct responsibility of the French Prime Minister, that aims to impart high-level expertise and raise global awareness of military and civilian national security issues), the US Naval War College, the NATO, the UN and the International Seapower Symposium which is the largest gathering of maritime leaders in history.

He joined the African Union (AU) Commission in 2007, as a Strategic Planner within the AU’s Darfur Integrated Task Force (DITF). Realizing that maritime issues were not addressed in the quadrennial AU’s Strategic Plan, he initiated the development of the 2050 Africa’s Integrated Maritime Strategy (2050 AIM-Strategy) which was formally adopted on 31st January 2014 by the 22nd Ordinary Session of AU’s Assembly of Heads of State and Government (www.au.int/maritime).

Before joining the AU Commission, he was cumulatively working in the Capacity of Strategy Lecturer at the Command and Staff College in Yaoundé (Cameroon), as well as Projects Lead, at the Cameroon Navy Headquarters.

He is currently the Coordinator of the 2050 AIM-Strategy Task Force, a multidisciplinary team of international cross-sectoral maritime experts at the AU Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Martin Kraus

Explorer

Martin is a Board Member at the Explorers Club in New York and is organizing the youngest scientific expedition to the North Pole (3-7 years) to advance young children’s understanding of the arctic climate change while empowering them to drive changes by speaking to their peers around the world.

He has been working for a UN Organization for the past 20 years on sustainable development issues and has participated in several expeditions to the Arctic documenting the underwater world in Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland and Norway, including the Elysium Artists for the Arctic flagged expedition.

Dr Paulo A.L.D. Nunes

Lead Economic Advisor

An economist who devotes his passion, energy and talent to the new and unmet needs of society in moving towards the eradication of poverty, end of hunger and all forms of malnutrition.
Over twenty years of international working experience in leading, and managing, multidisciplinary teams that produce high-level, science-based, policy advice on development economic issues.

Field work experience in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Caucasus, SIDS, and the Americas.

Proud to be with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Office of the Assistant Director-General.