Emma has a passion for all marine wildlife, but especially cetaceans (whales, dolphins & porpoises) and seabirds. From 2006 to 2010, Emma worked as a wildlife officer & wildlife guide for MARINElife on P&O’s Pride of Bilbao as well as leading specific wildlife watching cruises on chartered vessels. Following this, Emma worked as a Marine Wildlife Surveyor for the Oil & Gas / Renewables industry and was a key surveyor in a long-term seabird survey in the North Sea as well as a government requested seabird and marine mammal survey off the Falkland Islands. Emma has travelled the World as a guest speaker for Swan Hellenic on several of their cruises and for P&O Cruises and Fred Olsen in a similar capacity.
Emma has been heavily involved with rescuing stranded cetaceans since 2004 and was a team member of the 2006 Thames Whale rescue as well as co-ordinator of a Pilot Whale mass stranding rescue in 2012. She is a trained marine mammal medic and carries out sampling for the Scottish Marine Animal Strandings Scheme.
Currently Emma works as an island ranger on Sanday, one of the northernmost Orkney islands working extensively with visitors. Her speciality is marine mammals and sea birds and she loves being able to share the experience of seeing whales & dolphins in the wild with other people!
Wildlife, Wild Sea.... 