Mark Whittington

Dr Mark Whittington is a marine biologist with a PhD and a background in fisheries, aquaculture and environmental monitoring.

Prior to joining ITOPF in 2007, he worked in marine consultancy in the UK, Middle East and East Africa. He also worked as a commercial diver, an expedition guide in the Arctic, Antarctic and Indian Ocean, and a manager of landmine clearance projects.

At ITOPF, Mark has attended numerous pollution incidents worldwide, delivered national and regional training courses and supported national contingency planning projects. Notable incidents include the tankers HEBEI SPIRIT (South Korea) and BUNGA KELANA 3 (Singapore and Malaysia), the containerships MSC NAPOLI (UK) and COSCO BUSAN (USA), and the bulk carrier OLIVA on Tristan da Cunha, which is the most remote inhabited island in the world.

Mark is Technical Team Manager for the Americas region, covering Arctic Canada to Cape Horn and the Antarctic Peninsula, and leads ITOPF’s Fisheries Working Group.

Languages

English (native), Portuguese (basic).

Publications

Gell FR and Whittington MW (2002) Diversity of fishes in seagrass beds in the Quirimba Archipelago, northern Mozambique. Marine and Freshwater Research, 53:115-121

Barnes DKA, Dulvy NK, Priestley SH, Darwall WRT, Choiseul V and Whittington M (2002) Fishery characteristics and abundance estimates of the mangrove crab Scylla serrata in southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique. South African Journal of Marine Science 24:19-25

Myers, M. and Whittington, M. (2000). Mozambique, in: Sheppard, C.R.C. (Ed.) (2000). Seas at the millennium: an environmental evaluation: 2. Regional chapters: The Indian Ocean to The Pacific. pp. 99-112

Rodrigues MJ, Motta H, Whittington MW and Schleyer M (2000) Coral reefs of Mozambique. 107-129pp. In: Coral Reefs of the Indian Ocean, their ecology and conservation, McClanahan TR, Sheppard CRC and Obura DO (eds). Oxford University Press, New York, 525pp.

Barnes DKA, Corrie A, Whittington M, Carvalho MA and Gell FR (1998) Coastal shellfish resource use in the Quirimba Archipelago, Mozambique. Journal of Shellfish Research. 17(1): 51-58