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A professional environmental scientist with over 30 years of experience, Steve is an independent consultant and Director of Wolds Environmental Consulting Ltd. With extensive experience of working in both public-and private-sector roles, in the UK and abroad, and in both freshwater and marine environments, Steve’s early career was based around freshwater fisheries, with a particular focus on salmonids. This included both research (whilst working as a Fisheries Ecologist with WRc, a UK-based private-sector environmental consultancy group) and operational management (whilst working as the Fisheries Strategy and Policy Advisor for Environment Agency Wales).
After working as the Senior Fisheries Biologist for Golder, a Canadian environmental consultancy group (where he led teams from the Calgary office on fishery components of environmental assessments, and monitoring/mitigation works relating to oil and gas projects across Alberta), Steve returned to the UK to take up the role of Stakeholder Manager for the Net Gain (North Sea) Regional MCZ Project. At Net Gain he was responsible for the successful production of recommendations for a new network of Marine Conservation Zones, across the English North Sea and along the east coast of England. As well as planning and delivering public engagement workshops (where he led and facilitated over 5,500 man-hours of stakeholder input) Steve also developed a suite of innovative decision-support tools to help assess the potential impacts of marine activities on conservation features, and co-authored Net Gain’s final recommendations report to UK Government.
After joining the Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies (University of Hull) in 2012 Steve's research work focused principally on the assessment of human impacts on the marine environment (and on MPAs in particular), and on aspects of management and sustainability. Whilst at the University of Hull, Steve led, or contributed to, a number of successful major projects, including:
- assessment of the relative importance of different pressures arising from human marine activities across UK waters (JNCC);
- development of a simple but flexible software tool to use data based on expert judgement to assess the potential impacts of human marine activities in European waters (EU-funded DEVOTES project);
- delivery of a study to better understand the role of data aggregation methods for supporting marine biodiversity status assessments (JNCC);
- production and application of methods for defining the robustness and ecological coherence of the network of Marine Protected Areas in Northern Ireland (NI Marine Task Force);
- development of a quantitative framework for assessing the sustainability of proposed developments in estuaries, based on the application of the ‘ten tenets of sustainability’;
- development of the SPIDA tool to support decision-making in oil and gas infrastructure decommissioning operations; and
- workshop facilitation and analytical support on a project looking at the potential impacts of non-licensable marine activities in MPAs around England.
Steve founded his own company, Wolds Environmental Consulting Ltd in 2019 where, as Director, his focus remains on delivering high quality applied environmental research and management support across coastal and marine waters. Often working in close collaboration with other local environmental consultants, on an associate basis, recent work has included projects with:
- AFBI (assessment of marine natural capital benefits in Northern Irish waters);
- APEM Ltd (support on delivering HABSCORE assessments);
- EC/JRC (risk-based approaches to support MSFD monitoring);
- Environment Agency (advising on the re-development of the HABSCORE salmonid modelling routines in a novel, ORACLE-based environment);
- Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi (the development of a regionally-specific causal loop network based on the DAPSI(W)R(M) framework);
- JNCC (a streamlined approach to marine ecosystem health assessment);
- MMO (Suffolk Marine Pioneer project, development of analysis/visualisation tools to support stakeholder workshops in examining the local beneficiaries of ecosystem goods and benefits derived from natural capital resources identified through stakeholder workshop discussions);
- Natural England (a proof of concept study to assess the potential for linking generic marine activities to potential impacts on GES);
- Ørsted (Annex 1 habitat compensation for offshore wind farms); and
- Yorkshire Marine Nature Partnership (a study to examine the feasibility of applying a natural capital approach to the Yorkshire coast).
Since 2022 Steve has also worked part time for IECS Ltd as a Senior Research Associate, a part-time role that runs alongside his own Directorship and consultancy work at WEC. Through this (contracted) associate position Steve has an ongoing involvement in several WPs across four major Horizon Europe projects:
- GES4SEAS,
- MarinePlan,
- MARBEFES, and
- MarineSABRES.
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