MEET THE TEAM

Mick Baines was Sea Watch’s Database Manager from 2002 to 2011

He also worked on the refinement of the database structure, error checking and extraction procedures. Mick researched and monitored marine mammals in Wales for over a decade before moving to Spain. During that time he functioned as Sea Watch Foundation’s Welsh co-ordinator, collating sightings records and producing the Welsh newsletter, as well as co-authoring the first Atlas of Marine Mammals of Wales. In addition to his work on bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises around the UK, Mick carried out surveys of the grey seal population in Wales and on breeding seabirds following the Sea Empress oil spill. Following many years in a consultative role for Sea Watch, during which he was travelling the world as a professional Marine Mammal Observer, Mick became a trustee of the charity.