Sharmin Rouf MSc

As the Wildlife Observer onboard the patrol vessel in the Chagos Archipelago, I am responsible for data collection via the visual sighting methodology in a bid to disseminate information and understand the abundance and distribution of cetaceans within this region. There is a host of secondary species of interest ranging from seabirds, elasmobranchs and, sea turtles data that is collected opportunistically in hopes to feed into the wider Marine Science Programme’s projects for continuity of time series metadata.