Lindsay Anne Murray is Director of the Environment and Ecosytems Division of Cefas (Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, an executive agency of the United Kingdom government. Department for Environmnet, Food and Rural Affairs – Defra). Some 150 staff in this Division conduct research undertake monitoring and advise on a range of issues relating to the marine environment. Lindsay Murray has a doctorate in Chemical Oceanography form the University of Liverpool, and 25 years experience in advising UK government departments and industry on issues relating to the environmental impacts of dredging, disposal at sea, marine aggregate extraction and marine construction activities. She is currently the Chair of a PIANC Working Group 14 on the uses of dredged material, and Vice Chair of CEDA Environment Commission.