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On 4 January 2010 the Secretariat of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) appointed Dr Wiesława Misiak as its first Science Officer on a fixed-term contract for four years.  This brings the full-time staff of the Secretariat up to two, following the appointment in May 2009 of Warren Papworth as the Agreement's first Executive Secretary.

Dr Misiak was appointed following a careful procedure which included advertising the position and the reviewing of applications by the Executive Secretary, the Chair of ACAP's Advisory Committee, Dr Marco Favero and the Convenor of the ACAP Status and Trends Working Group, Dr Rosemary Gales.

Wiesława has been working at the ACAP Secretariat's offices in Hobart, Australia in a temporary capacity since August 2007, where among other tasks she has been responsible for seeing the suite of ACAP Species Assessments drafted, reviewed, edited and published on the web site (click here).

Wiesława says she is delighted with her appointment and looks forward to continuing to work with the many people with whom she has already been in contact - and to meet and correspond with many more towards the conservation of albatrosses and petrels in the years ahead.

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 2 February 2010