List of participants

Carolyn Knight
Dr Carolyn Knight is a researcher in fish biology in the Wild Fish and Aquaculture group at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA). Her work encompasses many aspects of fish biology, but her main study area is in fish migration.

Carolyn joined NIVA 2.5 years ago from the UK where she was involved in work on fish migration and also fisheries engineering. In Norway Carolyn is involved in projects using telemetry to monitor whole salmon populations salmon as the juveniles migrate to sea and also to follow summer and winter movements and interactions of Arctic charr in a lake on an arctic island, Bear Island.

Carolyn is the Norwegian project coordinator and is responsible for Work Package 3 (WP3) in the Best Combat project

Oddmund OtterstadOddmund Otterstad is a senior researcher with social science as his specialty. He is currently working at NTNU samfunnsforskning (Social Research) AS and as associate professor II at Department of Sociology and political science at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

His specialities have mainly been within the fields of fisheries management and coastal development. Almost all the projects have been cross-disciplinary applied research with a practical aim of changing society. During the last ten years he has devoted much time to integrated coastal management and foresight analysis in the Balkan region and in the coastal areas in Mid-Norway. He has been the leading social scientist during the establishment of the cross-disciplinary group of marine and coastal development at NTNU.

Oddmund Otterstad is responsible for Work Package 2 (WP2) in BestCombat Project

Radu SiciuRadu Suciu is a senior researcher with fish genetics and sturgeon biology as his specialties.

Currently he is working at The Danube Delta National Institute (DDNI) of Tulcea as the head of the Sturgeon Research Group.

He is the CITES Scientific Authority for sturgeons of Romania ( http://www.indd.tim.ro/rosturgeons ) and a member of the Sturgeon Specialists Group (SSG) at IUCN ( http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/species ). During the last 16 years he has devoted much of his time and energy to unveiling the “secrets” of sturgeons living in the NW region of the Black Sea and the lower Danube River for both their conservation and sustainable use by local fishing communities in Romania. Being aware of the future importance of ecotourism for the region of the Danube delta, in 1992 he was, together with his wife Marieta, co-founder of the Tourism Research Group at DDNI and contributed for more than five years to the activities of this group.

Radu Suciu is responsible for Work Package 4 (WP4) in BestCombat Project.