About Me

After graduating from Plymouth University, I spent four years working in the offshore industry, first as a Research Assistant, and later as a Marine Scientist, although both roles centered primarily around research and scientific writing. I have extensive experience of writing, editing and proofreading books, scientific papers, literature reviews, reports, and advice documents. Strong research and analysis skills give me flexibility and enable me to write proficiently about a wide variety of topics, scientific or otherwise. Having previously been responsible for company websites, social media, and marketing material, I have an in-depth understanding of how to produce strong content that will work for you.

I am an experienced writer and have co-authored many scientific papers and an international handbook, that provides guidance on environmental mitigation measures for marine mammals. A full list of my publications is shown below.

• OneKind. (2017) Mountain hare persecution in Scotland. pp. 25.  Available: https://www.onekind.scot/resources/mountain-hare-persecution-in-scotland/
• Todd V.L.G, Warley J.C. & Todd I.B. (2016) Meals on wheels? A decade of megafaunal visual and acoustic observations from offshore Oil & Gas rigs and platforms in the North and Irish Seas. PLOS One, 11(4): e0153320.
• Jiang J., Todd V.L.G., Gardiner J.C. and Todd I.B. (2015) Measurements of underwater conductor hammering noise: compliance with the German UBA limit and relevance to the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). Euronoise 2015. Maastricht, The Netherlands Acoustical Society of the Netherlands (NAG) and Belgian Acoustical Society (ABAV). pp. 6.
• Todd V.L.G., Gardiner J.C. and Todd I.B. (2015) Rigs-to-reefs and porpoises: Précis of evidence to support leaving offshore installations in situ at the end of their operational lifetimes. Decommissioning of Offshore and Subsea Structures. Glasgow, UK: ASRANET Ltd. pp. 10
• Todd, V.L.G., Todd, I.B., Gardiner, J.C., and Morrin, E.C.N. (2015) Marine Mammal Observer and Passive Acoustic Monitoring Handbook. Pelagic Publishing Ltd, UK.
• Todd, V.L.G.., Todd, I.B., Gardiner, J.C., Morrin, E.C.N., MacPherson, N.A., DiMarzio, N.A., and Thomsen, F. (2015) A review of impacts of marine dredging activities on marine mammals. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72(2), 328-340
• Ruffert, M., Todd, I. B., Todd, V. L. G. and Gardiner, J. C. (2012). Diel analysis methodology for offshore porpoise (phocoena phocoena) echolocation using ICI from C-POD & other PAM data. Proceedings of the 11^th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics.
• Hickey, R., Barba, L., Binstead, M., Gardiner, J., Hrukova, N., Nuutilla, H., Pesante, G., Ruston, N., Scullion, A., Veneruso, G., and Wildin, C. (2008) Comparison of passive acoustic and visual survey techniques on bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Cardigan Bay SAC, Wales. Poster at the 22^nd Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 10-12 March 2008.
• Carter, A. M., Gardiner, J. C., Goodwin, L. (2007) Ecology, distribution and potential disturbance of dolphins in Kefalonia, Greece during 2005 and 2006. European Research on Cetaceans - 21. Proceedings of the European Cetacean Society Conference, San Sebastian, Spain (ed. P.G.H. Evans). European Cetacean Society, Cambridgeshire.