Meet The team

Peter is a founding Director of Partrac. With over twenty years of experience in the marine survey sector, he has developed and directs all our company operations and health and safety procedures.

Peter completed an MSc in Marine Science at Plymouth University in 2001. Following a brief period of work with Fugro GEOS, he established Partrac with Sam Athey and Dr Kevin Black in 2003. Peter has been at the forefront of developing Partrac’s metocean survey capabilities. He has masterminded and directed multi-scale metocean projects, from single waverider and ADCP deployments through to large scale multi-unit deployments, including floating Lidar systems. He is also one of the world’s leading oceanographers, experienced in the acquisition of data in tidal races for the renewable energy sector.

Working with Peter, you will benefit from his unrivalled success in acquiring high quality metocean data at project sites in Europe and the USA. Peter has been directly involved in more than 500 oceanographic deployments, with a track record for 100% data return.

Kevin is a founding Director of Partrac. With over twenty years of experience in the marine survey sector, he is our Technical & Business Development Director.

Kevin oversees several functions including commercial strategy, business development, project direction, provision of technical advice, and the development of our data quality frameworks and data management systems.

Completing his doctorate in Geological Oceanography at the University of Wales (Swansea) in 1990, Kevin is a leading technical specialist in coastal processes and flow-sediment-structure interaction. Kevin has been instrumental in establishing Partrac’s consultancy services and has built a team of highly skilled, motivated staff. He has also led the continuous improvement of our data quality, developing our internal data quality management framework.

Kevin is proactive and client-centred and enjoys being involved with exciting infrastructure and energy projects which are technically challenging.

Sam is Partrac’s Managing Director . He is responsible for the direction of Partrac. Sam has developed the company structure, building a resilient team that focuses on serving the growing offshore renewables industry.

Sam has developed Partrac’s capability to safely deliver oceanographic and wind resource measurement campaigns. He has led numerous measurement projects for the offshore wind sector, including floating offshore wind and real-time metocean monitoring for offshore construction. Over the past six years, Sam has also led floating LiDAR projects, delivering high-quality wind resource data that has underpinned the viability of offshore wind investment decisions.

Sam’s extensive metocean and offshore wind experience, combined with his client-first approach to project delivery, has underpinned Partrac’s success in the offshore renewables sector.

Associate Director, Dr Matt Wright is a coastal and marine geologist and geomorphologist with extensive (25+ years) experience in research and consultancy. He has worked on a wide range of projects in the estuarine, coastal, and offshore realms, both in the UK and worldwide.

Matt is responsible for leading and managing Partrac’s team of consultants who provide a range of specialist services in addition to his business development role. Over the course of his career, Matt has provided expert advice on projects involving the assessment of marine and coastal processes, geomorphology, water and sediment quality, geology and geophysics, sedimentology, and sea-level change. He also has valuable experience liaising with statutory regulators and successfully bidding significant long term contracts.

Jack is Partrac’s Principal Consultant, specialising in hydro-sedimentary processes within coastal, estuarine, and marine environments. With over nine years’ experience in research and consultancy, working on, and leading, a wide range of projects throughout the UK and worldwide, Jack has a proven track record of successful project delivery. With a focus on the offshore wind sector, Jack is responsible for leading and project managing various pre-consent (environmental) and post-consent (engineering) consultancy projects.

Jack advises on critical aspects of engineering and project design, environmental assessment, and regulatory compliance. He has helped numerous engineering teams optimise and de-risk across high-profile projects, drawing on his knowledge of the key environmental issues in coastal and marine environments, and the institutional and legal systems relating to environmental assessment, regulation, and management.

Ross is Partrac’s Principal Metocean Engineer and health and safety manager on site. Having worked with us for more than seven years, he ensures that our offshore operations run smoothly and manages our survey teams on site.

Specialising in metocean monitoring operations, Ross has extensive experience in survey design, operational methods, equipment selection, and instrument programming, boasting hundreds of successful deployments of bottom-mounted acoustic monitoring devices and metocean monitoring buoy deployments. Ross is one of the world’s leading authorities on the deployment, servicing, and recovery of floating LiDAR systems.

Ross has IOSH-accredited qualifications regarding health and safety and is currently working towards NEBOSH certification.

Kevin is Partrac’s Senior Project Manager, with more than 12 years of experience in the metocean industry. He holds two master’s degrees, these being in coastal management and exploration geophysics.

Kevin joined Partrac in 2013, following a 5-year period managing the marine operations for the compliance monitoring aspect of the multi-billion-pound DP World London Gateway project. He now project manages our major metocean survey and marine monitoring projects in the renewables, ports, and utility sectors, with specialist knowledge of the offshore wind sector. He has expertise in the deployment of floating Lidar buoy systems in the UK and Europe, particularly associated with the logistics surrounding these major metocean monitoring campaigns.

Kevin’s extensive experience in the project lifecycle, from planning and licensing through to logistics, survey operations and reporting, allows us to provide clients with an efficient and reliable service, tailored to the project location.

John is Partrac’s Senior Metocean Data Analyst. He is responsible for delivering survey results and maintaining our data QA/QC procedures.

John has a PhD in Coastal Morphodynamics and Numerical modelling. His experience includes offshore and onshore survey work, large scale field experiments, model development, and data collection, analysis and management.

In previous roles, John led a data analysis team and managed metocean field data collection and analysis. He also developed and implemented marine energy resource assessment techniques for offshore marine energy sources, maintaining the group’s accredited status as a testing/calibration laboratory under ISO 17025.

As a modeller John has developed area resource models and local forecast models to provide operational windows for marine operations.

Long joined Partrac as a Coastal Modeller. With a PhD in Coastal Dynamics from the University of Nottingham, he is an expert in the field of meteorology and oceanography (metocean). Long’s main interest lies in morphodynamics (the dynamics of a fluid interacting with an erodible surface), in particular in the coastal environment and shallow waters.

After six years working with Nottingham Coastal Research Group, Long joined Partrac where he was tasked with developing hydrodynamic and wave models, along with other analytical methods to establish optimal metocean design criteria for coastal and offshore engineering applications.

Long is focusing on implementing accepted industry standards and bespoke solutions, using state-of-the-art numerical models to obtain high quality and reliable metocean information.

Mohammed is a key member of our consulting team. An experienced Coastal Engineer, Mohammed holds a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from the University of Khartoum and a Master’s degree in Hydroinformatics and Water Management.

Mohammed’s extensive understanding of water and sediment interactions, combined with his comprehensive numerical modelling, GIS and data analysis skills, contributes to Partrac’s delivery of high-quality, seabed level and seabed variability assessments.

As a Coastal Process Scientist, Mohammed provides essential information in support of offshore construction and installation activities, foundation design, dredging activities, export and array cable burial risk, and planning for structural scour.

Matt is one of Partrac’s more experienced project oceanographers, working on a variety of oceanographic equipment, vessels, and environments, and covering several of Partrac’s major projects across the UK and in Europe.

Matt studied Oceanography at the Universities of Plymouth and Southampton, graduating with an MSc in 2016. He then took a job as a Coastal Processes Scientist at Plymouth Coastal Observatory, gaining practical experience in topographic survey.

Matt has a strong understanding of the need to ensure all oceanographic survey equipment is tested, prepared, and deployed correctly to return the best data. Our clients benefit from his thorough approach and eagerness to complete projects to the highest standards.

Mike is Partrac’s Equipment and Facilities Maintenance Technician based in Devon, responsible for preparing moorings and instrumentation for deployment, in addition to taking charge of our premises and vehicles.

Mike has a varied background including outdoor pursuits instruction, skippering commercial vessels, and managing a marine chandlery and boatyard. He also brings experience of assisting on Antarctic research projects, undertaking data analysis and lab-based sampling, and so fully appreciates the needs of our survey teams.

Many years of experience on and in the water has given him an understanding of how mooring equipment will behave in various environments and he has a good knowledge of marine equipment servicing and preventative maintenance. This is vital for ensuring our mooring and instrument systems can provide reliable data for the duration of their deployment.

Lucy is Partrac’s Business Systems and Finance Coordinator. She is responsible for financial administration, human resources, ISO compliance and our internal audits.

An experienced administrator with a varied background, Lucy holds degrees in Finance and Psychology, along with bookkeeping qualifications. Her previous experience includes project management, facilities management, and quality management within the insurance industry. She has also worked in education administration and SME business administration.

Lucy keeps the whole of the Partrac team focused on quality and compliance and ensures that our management targets are strictly monitored and met.

Vicki is our Finance and Business Systems Administrator. Vicki’s role is to support the entire team by carrying out the day-to-day administration of the company’s financial accounting, monitoring, and reporting systems.

Having worked as an administrator for 10 years before joining Partrac, Vicki has a wealth of experience. She also holds a degree in Classical Studies from the Open University.