Tony Bowron

President & CEO, CBWES Inc.

Tony is a founding Director, President and Coastal Wetland Ecologist with CBWES. He has been working on coastal wetland monitoring and restoration projects in Nova Scotia since 1998 and is an internationally recognized tidal wetland restoration and monitoring practitioner. His education and employment experience has focused on coastal ecology, biology and the environment, with emphasis on the monitoring and restoration of coastal and wetland habitats. He has worked for both governmental and non-governmental organizations on the issue of coastal habitat protection and restoration; chaired the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership’s Salt Marsh and Restricted Tidal Systems Working Group; is a member of the Gulf of Maine Council's Subcommittee on Habitat Restoration, and of the former Global Program of Action Coalition for the Gulf of Maine; and is an adjunct professor in the Environmental Science Program at Saint Mary’s University. Tony’s work on tidal wetland restoration projects throughout Nova Scotia has encompassed all aspects of project development and management through to implementation and long-term ecological monitoring. He has collaborated on a number of academic, NGO and community-based stewardship initiatives relating to coastal wetland research, education and restoration, as well as living shorelines and climate change adaptation.