Bill Brownell This is Me

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1. 1. TerraNature Trust | Organisation

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   A memorable nature experience Bill had was free diving in a school of about 80 mahimahi (dolphin) in the Caribbean. When one of them was hooked by a line from a boat, he was in the centre of a mandala of energy for 15 minutes as the other fish tried to assist their mate in trouble. The revolving continuum of flashing irridescent blue, yellow, green and silver mesmerised him. After he climbed onto the boat to assist in releasing the fish, it fled, well-chaperoned by her mates.
   
   Graeme's first environmental experience was digging up the back lawn in Hamilton in 1965, much to the horror of his mother, to plant native ferns, trees and shrubs salvaged from a Te Aroha quarry site.
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   Bill manages the consulting firm Tikapa Kahawai Coastal Marine Advisory Service which he founded in 2003. He has a particular interest in the vital Firth of Thames estuarine ecosystem and Ramsar site, as co-leader of the "Muddy Feet" project focusing on ecological research and sustainable management. He is also co-proprietor of the Tikapa Moana seaside organic orchard and lodge at the base of the Hunua Parklands southeast of Auckland.
   
   In 1996 he co-founded Ecoquest New Zealand which offers a study abroad program in New Zealand of applied field ecology, resource management and environmental policy, in partnership with the University of New Hampshire. Bill served as Chair of the Trustees and lecturer in fisheries policy, coastal management and marine ecology. He was an Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire.
   
   In other educational positions he was Dean of the Community College for Conservation and Nature Tourism Studies at Whitianga, New Zealand; head of the fishery research and technology training programme at the La Salle Institute in Margarita Island, Venezuela; and Director of the School for Field Studies Marine Resources Centre in the Turks and Caicos Islands of the British West Indies.
   
   Bill's long career in marine science and conservation started as a field associate at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. He worked as a project manager for fisheries development in Benin and Ghana, and principal fish smoking technologist for West Africa, both for the United Nations Development Programme. He has done applied shellfish aquaculture research and implementation (oysters, scallops, mussels and queen conch) in the Los Roques Islands, Venezuela, the Caribbean islands, Canada and New Zealand, including studies of the environmental impacts of aquaculture projects.

2. 2. TerraNature Trust | Terra Nature Fund - latest news & events

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   Marine scientist Bill Brownell joins TerraNature Board of Trustees
   
   15 November 2006
   
   After serving on TerraNature's Advisory Council, Bill Brownell has become a Trustee. He brings valuable experience to the Board from a long career in marine science research, management, education, and conservation in Benin, Ghana, West Africa, Venuzuela, the Caribbean, United States, Canada and New Zealand.
   
   Bill founded the consulting firm Tikapa Kahawai Coastal Marine Advisory Service, and currently has a particular interest in the vital Firth of Thames estuarine ecosystem and Ramsar site, as co-leader of the "Muddy Feet" project focusing on ecological research and sustainable management.
   
   He was the co-founder and served as Chair of the Trustees and lecturer in fisheries policy coastal management and marine ecology, of Ecoquest New Zealand which offers a study abroad program applied field ecology, resource management and environmental policy, in partnership with the University of New Hampshire.