Workpackage 1: Export Constraints, Externalities and
Opportunities
Researcher CVs
Dr.
Jim Chalmers
Dr. Chalmers has a background in agricultural research and practice. He joined Orkney College, UHI Millennium Institute in 1999 to lead the development in collaboration with ICIT of an undergraduate programme in sustainable development and environmental management. He delivers courses in renewable energy, waste minimisation, biotechnology and sustainable development to UHI programmes and his area of responsibility at the College includes Agronomy and Archaeology/Geophysics. He is also a member of the OREF Board.
Dr.
Gareth Davies
Dr. Davies is the current Chair of the Orkney Renewable Energy Forum (OREF). He has a PhD in marine biology, and has worked as an environmental consultant for most of his career. His work in the North of Scotland on renewable energy resources is well known and forms part of the 350 projects covering a wide range of environmental and operational energy studies he has completed.