OceansWatch Asia/Pacific operations are run from our office in New Zealand.
CHRIS BONE: CEO, Project leader
Chris is a professional yacht skipper and runs a yacht delivery company- Pacific Yacht Deliveries. He has been an environmental activist for many years, including 2 years as a skipper for Greenpeace on the yacht Vega. His background also includes organic farming and consulting, and marine marketing consultancy.
Email: chris@oceanswatch.org
JANE PARES: Secretary, Media liaison & writer
Jane is a seasoned yachtswoman. She has sailed in Europe, the Pacific and around South America. Jane has organised aid missions as part of Raleigh International, worked for the Green Party in New Zealand and is a freelance yachting journalist. Janey shares her time between New Zealamnd and Tonga, where she runs a whale watching and diving company with Glenn Edney.
Email: jane@oceanswatch.org
JULIA ALABASTER: Financial administrator, Fundraising, education.
Julia’s background is in health, nutrition, education and small business. She is a trained Homeopath and Nutritionist with a B. Sc. in Physiology, an M. A. in Health Science and a Dip Ed. Julia is a competent sailor and qualified ReefCheck diver.
Email: julia@oceanswatch.org
PETER VINE: Marine consultant
Peter Vine’s career has encompassed life as a professional marine biologist, commercial fish farmer, freelance author of more than 20 books, and, for the last decade or so managing director of a multimedia publishing company (Trident Press Ltd. http://www.tridentpress.com). Peter has been sailing for over 50 years and keeps his yacht near his home in Connemara, Ireland.
LILY KOZMIAN-LEDWARD: Marine projects
Lily is a marine biologist, professional scuba-diver, yacht skipper and photographer. She set up The Amadis Project in 2003 to conduct yacht-based coral reef research and education in the Caribbean and South Pacific. Lily currently lives aboard her yacht 'Amadis' in New Zealand.
Wade Doak, Marine Advisor
Together with his wife Jan, they have over one hundred years of underwater exploration and photography between them. Their generation was first to scuba dive and document the undersea world. Wade has eighteen books and multiple TV films on fishes, marine life, and South Seas exploration documentaries. For sixteen years they edited and published the New Zealand "Dive Magazine
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