Russell, Shaun

Shaun Russell is an environmental scientist with 45 years of experience as a teacher and researcher in biodiversity conservation and protected-area management around the world. He held lecturing posts in Britain and South Africa and was formerly dean of the Science Faculty at the University of Namibia. He also worked for the British and South African Antarctic programs. Dr. Russell is currently the director of the Treborth Botanic Garden at Bangor University in Wales, and over the past 20 years he has applied his specialist knowledge of mosses and lichens to habitat conservation in the far south of Chile.