This month we are welcoming Ms Angie McMahon to the newly created position of Human Resources Officer.
Ms McMahon has formal qualifications in human resources and a background in its management in the hospitality industry. She has worked across the full spectrum of human resources from operational issues through to policy development.
The CCAMLR Secretariat will be closed from midday Friday 21 December 2018 until Tuesday 1 January 2019. The office will reopen on Wednesday 2 January 2019.
We wish everyone an enjoyable and relaxing Christmas period.
At its recent meeting, the Scientific Committee agreed that, as the CCAMLR Scientific Scholarships Scheme was such a successful way of developing capacity in the working groups and in the Scientific Committee, there would an additional call for scholarship applications with a deadline for applications by 29 March 2019.
Today sees the close of the Thirty-seventh Meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) in Hobart, Australia.
The Governor of Tasmania, Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Kate Warner AC, will today open the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR).
On International Translation Day (30 September), we acknowledge the crucial role translators play in creating a shared understanding of important CCAMLR business. The CCAMLR translation team consistently produces high-calibre material that is very much appreciated by CCAMLR's diverse audience.
In July, we welcomed Bonney Webb to the CCAMLR Secretariat. Ms Webb takes over from Dr Keith Reid who had been Acting Fishery Monitoring and Compliance Manager while the role was being filled.
CCAMLR is meeting in Norwich and Cambridge (United Kingdom) to share science and safeguard biodiversity.
The Subgroup on Acoustic Survey and Analysis Methods (SG-ASAM) held its annual meeting in early May 2018 in Punta Arenas (Chile). The meeting was chaired by Dr Xianyong Zhao (China).