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Professional experience
Professor Sink leads the marine component of the National Biodiversity Assessment and technical work to design and implement Marine Protected Areas. She is engaged in transdisciplinary work and supports spatial planning, governance, policy development and management in the marine environment. She holds an honorary professorship at the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research (CMR) at the Nelson Mandela University (NMU).
2006 – present: Marine Program Manager and Principal Scientist, South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Kirstenbosch, Cape Town. Key Areas of Work: Marine Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring, Foundational Marine Biodiversity Science, Identification and mapping of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems, Integrated Ocean
Management, Protected Area Planning, Provision of Scientific and Policy Advice, Identification of Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs), Marine Citizen Science, Project management, Financial management, Leadership & Capacity Building.
2003-2005 Co-ordinator: Marine Ecology, African Coelacanth Ecosystem Program, South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown.
