Dr Patricia Breen travelled to Belfast last week to attend a workshop for the MarPAMM (Marine Protected Area Management and Monitoring) project. Patricia presented work from her previous postdoc in University College Cork on modelling species distributions of cetaceans, seabirds and fish. She also spoke about her current work in NUIG on risk assessment within fisheries for the SEERAC (Spatially explicit ecological risk assessment framework for conservation planning of coastal waters) project.