Katherine Ross

Katherine “Frin” Ross is a British marine biologist and conservationist who has worked extensively in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. She previously served as Marine and Fisheries Officer for the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Career As part of her doctoral research, Ross studied benthos and scallop aquaculture at the University of Liverpool's Port Erin Marine Laboratory on the Isle of Man. She subsequently worked on marine protected area policy for the Joint Nature Conservation Committee in Aberdeen, Scotland, and worked on salmon, sea trout, and shellfish stock assessment and habitat restoration in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, completing an important survey of cockle grounds in 2009 and 2010. Ross then served as Chief Scientist of the British Antarctic Survey's King Edward Point Research Station in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. She also worked at a freshwater fishery in the Falkland Islands, and her research has included work on conservation of native fish in the Falklands. Ross was appointed as South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands' Marine and Fisheries Officer in 2012. She held the post until 2015, when she left to become the Habitats Officer at Falklands Conservation.