Who We Are
Meet the Missing Salmon Alliance Team
We are a committed and passionate group of scientists, conservationists and campaigners. We bring a wealth of experience and knowledge together to achieve our goal of improving the understanding of the importance of wild Atlantic salmon. With conservation at our core we will combine expertise, coordinate activities and advocate for change.
Colin Bull, Principal Investigator, Missing Salmon Alliance
My interests are in aquatic ecology and in particular salmonid biology and understanding mechanisms behind trends in salmon survival. Since completing my PhD in 1996 at the Glasgow University on salmon ecology under the supervision of Prof Neil Metcalfe Ive been involved in fisheries science and management with positions as fisheries biologist at the Argyll Fisheries Trust , Forth Fisheries Foundation and Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust, and as project manager on the EU-LIFE project :Conservation of Atlantic salmon in Scotland (CASS) I've also spent a few years in Chicago working on seahorse conservation for Project Seahorse . In 2005 I took a teaching fellow position at Stirling University lecturer in the Biological and Environmental Sciences department where I've been teaching various aspects of freshwater science and management involved in contract research. I took on the role of Principal Investigator for the MSA in September 2019 on a 5 year secondment form my academic position at Stirling .
Dylan Roberts, Head of Fisheries, The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust
Being a life-long salmon and sea trout angler in Wales, led Dylan to a 25 year career in freshwater and marine fisheries management and research. He worked for the National Rivers Authority and then the Environment Agency between 1994 and 1997 and joined GWCT fisheries in 1998 and became their Head of Fisheries in 2006. Since then, GWCT have set up their Salmon and Trout Research Centre on the river Frome and the team has grown from three staff to seven full time, three part time and three current PhD students who have published some 30 scientific papers in the last 5 years. Dylan’s early career focused on assessing the impacts of riparian restoration on the abundance of salmonids and trout stocking but since taking over as Head of Fisheries, he has focused on project management, policy and fundraising. He has raised over £10m for Trust’s fisheries research, including the EU funded MorFish and SAMARCH projects. Dylan is excited by the formation of the MSA and feels that working together is the only way we will stem the current decline of the wild Atlantic salmon.
Stuart Singleton-White, Head of Campaigns, The Angling Trust
Stuart has been the Head of Campaigns at the Angling Trust since January 2019. He covers all aspects of the Trust’s campaigning, focusing on work across government, the Environment Agency and Natural England, and through the media.
Stuart holds a BSc (Hons) (1st Class) in Environmental Studies and has worked in the conservation and sustainability world since joining WWF in 1991. Stuart brings experience from his work on climate change, forestry and agriculture as well as freshwater and marine. And has worked with government and government institutions at the local, national, EU and UN levels.
Alongside his campaigning and advocacy Stuart has had a parallel career in politics. He was a councillor at both the County and Borough level for 13 years and Chairman of Reading Buses for eight years. Stuart started his working life in the Royal Navy, which other than being shot at, he attributes his passion for the marine environment from having sailed from as far south as the Falklands to as far north as the Arctic.
As a kid he spent time fishing and swimming in the River Thames, developing a love of our rivers and the natural world.
Hannah Rudd, Campaigns Officer, The Angling Trust
New to the world of Atlantic salmon, Hannah Rudd is a marine scientist and science communicator with a specialism, in shark science and marine management. Through her first degree at Lancaster University, BSc (Hons) Natural Sciences, Hannah travelled to South Africa to study great white sharks and their socio-economic value to the global shark tourism industry. She then went to the University of York to study MSc Marine Environmental Management where she worked in the Maldives whilst studying whale sharks and then travelled back again to South Africa to continue studying their white shark population.
Communicating science through various media is another of Hannah's areas of interest, leading her to complete an internship with the Science Media Centre in London and be an organiser for the Pint of Science UK Festival. Through her science communication work, Hannah enjoys sharing conservation stories, particularly through visual media and believes media is one of the most powerful tools in our fight for a greener future. Hannah is also passionate about raising the profile of women in science and through this she became a Women in Shark Science scholar with the South African Shark Conservancy.
After graduating from the University of York with a distinction she joined the Angling Trust as their Campaigns Officer in January this year. Hannah sits on both the Technical Steering Group and the Communications Group for the Missing Salmon Alliance and is excited to work with the Alliance to reverse the decline of wild Atlantic salmon in the UK.
