Selected Projects & Consultancies

● Assignment for the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (2024-now) – Role: Taxonomic studies of the macroalgal collection of the Museum expeditions to Madagascar.

● DIV-MACRO-NC (2023) - Preliminary feasibility study of macroalgae cultivation in tanks and coculture with rabbitfish in New Caledonia - The main aim of the project was to produce an initial local proof of concept of the technical feasibility of growing Caledonian macroalgae in tanks and in co-culture - Role: PI - Funding: program PROTEGE (Pacific Community) - Collaborations: L.Lag.Consulting & Centre Technique Aquacole de Boulouparis (ADECAL, New Caledonia).

● SouthPACIWEED (2022-2024) - A South Pacific Seaweed Working Group to address seaweed safety and propose common standards - SouthPACIWEED aims to assess the health risks associated with the consumption of macroalgae in the South Pacific and to make recommendations for sustainable and locally appropriate uses - Role: PI - Funding: Safe Seaweed Coalition - Collaborations: L. Lag. Consulting; Institut de Recherche et Développement (IRD); Direction des Services de l’Agriculture, de la Forêt et de la Pêche (DSA) Wallis & Futuna; Université de Polynésie française (UPF); Pacific Community (CPS); Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

● SafeNCweed (2022-2024) - Assessment of the potential of macroalgae as a new "blue resource" and nature-based solution for New Caledonia and the Pacific. - Role: co-PI - Funding: Fonds Pacifique - Collaborations: Institut de Recherche et Développement (IRD); L. Lag. Consulting; Université de Polynésie française (UPF); Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

● Macroalgal resources of Seychelles (2022-2024), diversity and sustainable uses –Role: consultant - Funding: SeyCCAT – Collaborations: Private/several local partners, Seychelles.

● Seaweed species photo-identifications of Seychelles & Mayotte - Indian Ocean First Descent, Nekton Mission (2020, 2021)

● Assessment of the seaweed industry sector in Australia, identification of opportunities, difficulties and needs, R&D project proposals for the valorisation and development of the industry (Business Case) – CSIRO, Australia (2018).

● Various seaweed monitoring (biomass & diversity) for CSIRO in Australia (2015-2018: Pilbara Marine Conservation Project, Ningaloo Outlook Project, Gippsland Project

● Various seaweed diversity assessments in the Indo-Pacific region (2006-2013: Vanuatu, French Polynesia, Maldives, Mayotte, Mauritius, Scattered Islands, Madagascar)