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Becky Hitchin

Title: 
Dr
First Name: 
Becky
Last Name: 
Hitchin
Gender: 
Female
Position: 
Deep Sea Mining Specialist
Institution: 
JNCC
Country: 
UK
Email: 
becky.hitchin@jncc.gov.uk

Sector:

  • Government

Technologies and techniques:

  • Grabs and Coring Devices
  • Towed Camera systems
  • Trawls/Nets/Dredges

Oceanographic Locations:

  • South-East Pacific

Deep Ocean Vertical Zones:

  • Abyssal benthos

Deep Sea Habitats:

  • Deep-sea sediments (all depths and habitats)
  • Hard substratum

Involvement in policy or management:

  • Large structure (wrecks/rigs) disposal
  • Mining (polymetallic sulphides / cobalt-rich crusts / polymetallic nodules / REMs / phophorites)
  • Oil and Gas
  • Scientific codes of conduct and impact assessments

Experience with bodies or processes:

  • A Regional Seas Organisation (e.g. OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the NE Atlantic)
  • Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
  • Developing codes of conduct
  • Developing impact assessment guidelines/standards
  • Environmental impact assessments (EIAs)
  • International Seabed Authority (ISA)
  • National government advisors
  • NGOs (please specify in other below)
  • United Nations or UN-based meetings

Primary Language:

  • English

Primary Expertise:

  • Policy

Secondary Expertise:

  • Conservation
  • Taxonomy
Secondary Expertise - Other: 
Field indentification