Photo: Wind Farm
Key Executives
Karma Dunlop
VP Environment, Health and Safety
With over fifteen years international experience in environmental policy and management associated with fisheries, offshore construction and permitting, Karma began her career, following university, working as a fisheries biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service on commercial fishing vessels off Alaska. She was responsible for data collection and monitoring industry compliance. Karma then went to work for an internationally recognized fisheries consulting firm in Seattle where she took on increasing management responsibilities conducting environmental assessment studies for several subsea international telecommunications systems and the U.S. Navy. During this time, Karma became versed in Geographic Information Systems and remotely sensed satellite data, and routinely carried out resource and risk assessments most notably analysing the effect of fishing effort on the survivability of deployed submarine assets. Under a $1.5 million NASA-funded project to evaluate the uses of satellite data to fisheries and coastal resource management, Karma was a technical analyst as part of team to develop a state-of-the-art space-based vessel information system which later became a commercially successful venture marketed under the brand OCENS.
Karma’s involvement in the offshore wind industry began following her relocation to the UK where she was appointed Environmental Manager of an entrepreneurial offshore renewables company to compete for UK Round 2 offshore windfarm leases. She further held several independent contracts providing environmental consulting services to several UK offshore wind applications and developments including the flagship London Array Offshore Wind Farm. Karma is currently completing a Masters degree in Environmental Management.
