Kevin holds an honours degree in Biology from the University of Durban in South Africa, a Ph.D. in Botany from University College Dublin and a M.Sc. in GIS and Remote Sensing from the University of Ulster. Kevin is a policy and forest consultant on climate change, land use and forestry for the Irish Government, private companies and developing countries. He is responsible for design, modelling and implementation of the Irish national forest greenhouse gas inventory submissions to the UNFCCC and EU. Kevin is a forestry ecologist and remote sensing expert and has undertaken numerous projects and published papers on a wide range of topics such as forests and climate change, landscape mapping, focal species habitat network, species niche mapping, forest growth modelling, volume and carbon forecasting and economics, nursery production, forest silviculture, remote sensing forest inventories, soils and nutrition.