Projects

Current Major Projects


Pacific Projects

2023

Client: Direction des services de l'agriculture, des forêts et de la pêche (DSA), Wallis et Futuna

Project summary: C2O Pacific has developed a Community Marine Monitoring Toolkit to help communities monitor their marine environment so that they can ...

Community Marine Monitoring Toolkit for Wallis & Futuna
2021

Client: Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA)

Project summary: C2O Pacific has developed a Community Marine Monitoring Toolkit to help communities monitor their marine environment so that they can ...

Community Marine Monitoring Toolkit for the Marshall Islands
2019-2024

Client: Palladium & DFAT

Project summary: Provide technical expertise and science advice to DFAT investments in the Pacific region, including integrating climate science into ...

Australia Pacific Climate Partnership Expert Panel
2022

Client: Wildlife Conservation Society

Project summary: C2O Pacific has developed a Community Marine Monitoring Toolkit to help communities monitor their marine environment so that they ...

Community Marine Monitoring Toolkit for Solomon Islands
2022-2023

Client: Agence Française de Développement (ADF)

Project summary: C2O Pacific has developed a Community Marine Monitoring Toolkit to help communities monitor their marine environment so that they ...

Community Marine Monitoring Toolkit for Pacific French Territories
2021-2022

Client: IUCN

Project summary: IUCN funding to design a GEF project to improve the resilience of ecosystems and communities in Kiribati to ...

Securing Kiribati’s Natural Heritage: Protected Areas for Community, Atoll and Island Climate Resilience (Securing Kiribati)
2020-2022

Client: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Project summary: Involved in the design of the Vanuatu Coastal Adaptation Project (VCAP) Phase 2 which is focused on biodiversity, ...

Vanuatu Coastal Adaptation Program Phase 2
2021-2022

Client: World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Project summary: Conduct a review of recent nature-based solutions in the Pacific region and provide recommendations on future needs and ...

Scoping nature-based solutions in the Pacific region
2020-2021

Client: Cook Islands National Environment Service

Project summary: Develop an Outlook report for the Marae Moana marine area of the Cook Islands

Marea Moana (Cook Islands) Outlook Report
2020-2021

Client: Save The Children

Project summary: Chief of Party to lead the design of the 8-year Green Climate Fund project including feasibility study and ...

Vanuatu community-based climate resilience
2019-2020

Client: Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority

Project summary: Developed a tailored Community Marine Monitoring Toolkit for the Marshall Islands. The Toolkit was delivered with comprehensive training ...

A Community Marine Monitoring Toolkit for the Marshall Islands
2015-2019

Clients: Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Fonds Française pour l'Environement Mondial (FFEM)

Project summary: Goal to increase the resilience of ecosystems and communities in north Efate to global changes. This included the ...

Vanuatu RESCCUE (restoration of ecosystem services and climate change adaptation)
2016-2018

Client: US Fish and Wildlife Service

Project summary: Supported improved marine managed area zoning in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea to enhance food security from ...

Biodiversity and fisheries-based livelihoods in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea
2016-2018

Client: USAID Pacific-American Climate Fund (PACAM)

Project summary: Integrated climate change science into government and community-based planning and adaptation to minimise exposure and reduce vulnerability in ...

Solomon Islands community-based climate change adaption
2014-2020

Client: Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Project summary: Delivered community-based sustainable resource management using an innovative ranger platform that can drive local actions for water and ...

Papua New Guinea Resilient Treaty Villages
2015

Client: Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)

Project summary: Assessed the vulnerability of 22 Pacific Island Countries and Territories to ocean acidification to inform a regional programme ...

Pacific Islands ocean acidification vulnerability assessment
2014

Client: Wallis and Futuna Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

Project summary: Member of expert symposium to provide input on fisheries and climate change to inform the development of a ...

Sustainable agriculture and fisheries in Wallis and Futuna
2012-2013

Clients: Secretariat of the Pacific Community & Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

Project summary: Partnered with managers and communities to provide expertise on climate change vulnerability to identify adaptations and policies at ...

Climate change adaptation in the Pacific region
2010

Client: Secretariat of the Pacific Community |  Project summary: Facilitated survey design, identification of monitoring indicators, and site selection.

Monitoring climate change impacts on Pacific coastal fisheries
2008-2012

Clients: Secretariat of the Pacific Community and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Project summary: An international initiative led by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community to assess the vulnerability of tropical Pacific ...

Vulnerability of Pacific habitats, fisheries and aquaculture to climate change

Australia Projects

2021-2024

Clients: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Environment and Energy and Queensland Government Department of Environment, Science and Innovation

Project summary: The 2022 Scientific Consensus Statement brings together the latest peer reviewed scientific evidence to understand how land-based activities ...

Scientific Consensus Statement
2021-2024

Client: Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Project summary: Coordinate a collaborative project that aims to address dissolved inorganic nitrogen in this sugarcane catchment, in partnership with ...

Russell-Mulgrave Reef Trust Partnership Water Quality Program
2020-2023

Client: Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Project summary: Coordinate the Great Barrier Reef crown-of-thorns starfish control program with operational partners - INLOC - and Program Manager ...

COTS Control Program
2022

Client: Queensland Government Office of the Great Barrier Reef

Project summary: The Ridge to Reef Alliance is a multi-disciplinary group of western scientists and Traditional Owners working together to ...

Koinmerburra Ridge to Reef
2019-2022

Client: Reef and Rainforest Research Centre under DAWE NESP Funding

Project summary: Project to bring together the key findings and management applications from all of the NESP Tropical Water Quality ...

NESP Synthesis Project
2021-2023

Client: Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Project summary: Develop a robust scientific consensus on the role of wetlands in nutrient (N) removal in the catchments of ...

Great Barrier Reef Wetland Synthesis
2016-2022

Client: NQ Dry Tropics

Project summary: Coordinated the design of a major integrated project for reducing sediment runoff from the Bowen Broken Bogie catchments ...

Burdekin Major Integrated Project: Landholders Driving Change
2018-current

Client: Great Barrier Reef Foundation

Project summary: 

Reef Trust Partnership Water Quality Program Advisor
2016-2017

Client: Australian Government National Environmental Science Programme

Project summary: Mapped values in the northeast Australian seascape and adjacent Pacific waters to characterise the processes and attributes that ...

Characterising the connectivity between marine values in the northeast Australian seascape and the Pacific region
2013-2016

Project summary: C2O Consulting responsible for overall coordination of the development and update of the Wet Tropics and Burdekin Water ...

Water Quality Improvements Plans for Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Catchments
2014

Client: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Project summary: Identify key climate change issues for marine protected area impact assessments and incorporate into assessment policies, guidelines and ...

Integrating climate change into marine environmental assessment policies
2013-2014

Client: Torres Strait Regional Authority

Project summary: Development of a five-year Torres Strait Climate Change Strategy (2014-2018) that includes a community adaptation and resilience plan; ...

Torres Strait climate change initiatives
2011-2014

Clients: Fisheries Research & Development Corporation and Commonwealth Department of Climate Change & Energy Efficiency

Project summary: Identification of potential impacts of climate change on northern Australian fisheries and adaptation for management.

Climate change impacts on fisheries resources of northern Australia
2011-2014

Client: Reef & Rainforest Research Centre

Project summary: Managed and facilitated the design, conduct and delivery of GBR water quality and Torres Strait research on behalf ...

Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait Research Coordination
2009-2010

Client: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 

Project summary: Informed resilience-based management of the Great Barrier Reef through mapping of coral reef resilience in the Keppel Bay ...

Great Barrier Reef resilience
2009-2010

Client: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Project summary: Developed a training package (curriculum) for ranger and community monitoring of coral reef health and impact surveys.

Coral reef health and impact survey training

Asia Projects

2021

Client: Market Development Facility (MDF)

Project summary: Supported the Market Development Facility (MDF) in Sri Lanka to workshop the implications of climate change for the ...

Climate change risks and opportunities for MDF programs and activities in Sri Lanka
2020-2023

Client: PEMSEA and UNDP

Project summary: Conducted a climate change vulnerability assessment for the large marine ecosystem of Arafura and Timor Seas, including habitats ...

Arafura & Timor Seas Ecosystem Action Phase II – regional climate change vulnerability assessment
2012-2013

Client: WorldFish

Project summary: A review of climate change impacts on aquatic agricultural systems in select countries to identify ways to integrate ...

Mainstreaming climate change into aquatic agricultural systems in the Asia-Pacific region

Europe Projects

2014-2016

Client: JPI Oceans

Project summary: Joint scientific intercalibration exercise for the EU Water Framework Directive coastal and transitional waters in the north-east Atlantic.

JPI Oceans Pilot Actions Program
2012-15

Client: Water Framework Directive

Project summary: Preparation and submission of Phytoplankton and Nutrient practitioner’s report detailing the Water Framework Directive tools for the UK.

Development and status of phytoplankton tools for ecological assessment of coastal and transitional waters, United Kingdom

Middle East Projects

2020-2021

Client: NEOM

Project summary: Conducted a semi-quantitative climate change situational analysis & vulnerability assessment for the NEOM region in the northern Red ...

NEOM climate change vulnerability assessment
2020-2021

Client: NEOM

Project summary: Developed the inaugural Outlook Report for the NEOM region in the northern Red Sea of Saudi Arabia.

NEOM Outlook Report 2020

Indian Ocean Projects

2022-2023

Client: World Bank

Summary: Prepare management plans and engage with stakeholders for three identified sustainable-use marine protected areas to enable a cost-effective and ...

Seychelles development of management plans for sustainable use areas (SWIOFish3)

Americas Projects

2012-13

Clients: AusAID and Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Project summary: Partnership with coral reef managers to facilitate knowledge exchange and build capacity to address climate change.

Supporting Caribbean coral reef management (CARICOM)

Global Projects

2019-2020

Client: Food & Agriculture Organisation of the UN

Project summary: Analyse practical experiences of fisheries management adaptation to climate change through global case studies, and identify examples of ...

Fisheries adaptation to climate change
2016-2017

Client: Coral Reef Unit, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Project summary: Synthesised science to develop a policy brief to inform international investment in coral reef activities to address pollution, ...

Coral reefs and pollution: Science-to-policy Brief and Technical Report
2016-17

Clients: Fisheries and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific

Project summary: Member of the Conference Scientific Committee, and Convenor of the Proceedings Sub-Committee in Bangkok, Thailand.

FishAdapt Global Conference on Climate Change Adaptation for Fisheries and Aquaculture