Colin is the Principal investigator for the Missing Salmon Alliance: a group of UK conservation focused organisations working together to drive action and save wild Atlantic salmon. Colin is on secondment to the MSA from his position as a lecturer at Stirling University, where he teaches environmental science, aquatic ecology and river management. His current role is to deliver the Likely Suspects Framework programme for the Missing Salmon Alliance. He has previously worked as fishery biologist and manager for a number of river and fishery trusts in Scotland and for Nature Scotland as a project manager for an Atlantic salmon conservation programme.