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: The BBSR has always been an institution I have admired. I think the work that is being done here is so important to our collective future, not only here in Bermuda but around the world as well. I am interested in using my skills to make a difference in what I care about. Print media is a powerful tool, if I can positively influence its direction I will try. No. Alison Shadbolt was the former press officer and managed the BBSR's publications before me. However, in bringing me onboard, the position has morphed to my strengths. From Bermuda's unique location and with more than a 100-year legacy, the BBSR is a global leader in marine sciences. We also have a major commitment to the next generation of Bermudians, offering educational programmes that prepare young people to accept a life-long role as stewards of their environment. Exploring and studying the marine environment around us to protect and preserve healthy oceans, and to engage and educate our local students to do the same. We are a global organisation and an international oceanographic resource, but at the same time we believe that our future is tied to the future sustainability of the island.

It does several things. Over the past 12 years as many as 24,000 local students have participated in the JASON Project through BBSR. Our education officer, John Paul Skinner, and other scientists lead local students in marine science internships and in the Waterstart summer programme, where students work alongside scientists on real research and monitoring projects.

We also offer university-level summer and semester courses and internship programmes. The Risk Prediction Initiative (RPI) programme works with the local catastrophe re-insurers to provide answers and assessments through workshops, research and education about extreme natural events.

BBSR scientists also work closely with Government, monitoring coral reefs and the marine environment, and are also actively involved in an air quality and mercury programme. And, of course, once a year, the BBSR opens its doors to the public for the annual Marine Science Day, which will be held this year on September 23.

: is a small town weekly newspaper in Crested Butte, Colorado where I lived and worked for nearly ten years. My partners and I started and produced it out of one of our homes and grew it to become the paper of choice, the paper of record, and finally bought out the competition.

It was a classic David and Goliath tale in which a large national newspaper chain bought out the small local paper that I had worked for. They systematically began to cut out the heart and soul of the nature of a small town local paper ? including staff. So we left and started our own paper and managed in the end to return the original paper back into local hands.

: With my position as photographer, photo editor and with production duties, I did just about anything that needed to be done to keep it running ? from driving over mountain passes in snowstorms to the printing press, to managing subscriptions. Crested Butte ? pronounced Buewtte, not but, by the way ? is a small mountain town tucked away in the Elk Mountains of south western Colorado. The entire town comprises one of the largest national historic districts in Colorado. There is one road in and out and the nearest press (or big town for that matter) is two-and-a-half hours away over the mountains of the continental divide.

So before we could send the paper electronically, for a few years once a week, we had to drive the proofs to the press. If you've ever spent time in the mountains, up high ? it only gets deeper.

: I do not show my work. However, I have been published for sports photography ? in particular skiing and white water kayaking ? in other publications including and magazine. I wanted to be close to my family again. My brother Geordie has moved back from out west as well with his wife and they have two babies. Having lived away for so long Bermuda was never far from my thoughts. This is special place and not something you can let go of easily. I recently sold my share back to my partners who still live in Colorado and manage . Well, to tell you the truth, I'm much more of an animal lover. But caring about all living things makes me care about our environment. I am a believer in the phrase, 'Think Globally, Act Locally' so I try to live by the philosophy that one person can make a difference ? either by buying local, organic produce and using all natural products, or recycling and reusing. I can attribute my philosophies to my grandmother who you might say is, and always has been, an environmentalist ? before there was ever a need for the word.

My grandmother is Frida Chappell. It would fill the paper if I described the countless things I admire her for and how she has influenced me, but it is her love of Bermuda and open spaces that inspires me.

I will mention that she graduated from Smith College at a time when most women got married and had children. She is a horticulturist and has always cultivated endemic plants in her gardens. She has permanently preserved eight acres of open space and coastline for the protection of longtail nests and she lends several acres of agricultural land for organic farming, among other things.

: Yes, I consider it a difficult cause with all the social problems we face as a society today.The environment is often the last thing anyone has time to think about and the first thing to be sacrificed.

I believe we must recognise that the problems affecting our community are connected and that is why the BBSR's continued success and its supporters' continued generosity is so important to maintain it as a leading institution in recognising the link between keeping our oceans and environment healthy and the health of humankind.

A: I sail in my free time and have two dogs to entertain and take care of. Kato and Lakota both came with me from Colorado. It would be hard to say what type either is. Kato is a rescue dog and a mix of Colorado ranch breeds. Lakota is a beautiful Shepherd mix.