Carmen Elrick

Senior Consultant, BSc (Hons)


Carmen has extensive experience across a whole spectrum of projects, from site-specific research to nation-wide climate change risk assessments. Her unique approach to structuring risk assessments ensures outcomes can be mainstreamed into operational programs, which is a major asset for clients. Her dedication to capacity building together with the rapport she creates with everyone she works with is much admired by colleagues and clients alike.

At a glance

  • Carmen is a social and environmental scientist with over 6 years comprehensive experience in the research and consulting industry.
  • As lead trainer in climate change risk assessment and adaptation planning for CZM, Carmen's clients include UNEP in SE Asia, the World Bank in the Pacific, and AusAID, both in Australia and in the Pacific.
  • Extensive skills and experience in community and stakeholder consultation, policy analysis and planning, institutional analysis and reform, and climate change risk assessment and adaptation planning.
  • Carmen trains and mentors representatives from national and local governments in approaches to climate change risk assessment and adaptation planning. She has developed handbooks, training manuals and audio-visual tools to support capacity building programs. Carmen's experience in mentoring and capacity building includes one-on-one training, group mentoring (workshops) and seminar presentations.
  • An experienced project manager for international, state and local clients. Carmen applies a custom Quality Management System that combines elements of the ISO 9000 series with the PRINCE2 Project Management methodology.
  • Core skills in climate change vulnerability assessment, institutional analysis, coastal impact assessment, socio-economic analysis, community consultation, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
  • Academic writing with over 15 published reports.

Little known fact

Carmen has travelled to 16 countries and studied coastal zones in 5 countries, including Australia. During her professional career, she has developed techniques to enable use of GIS information for non-technical audiences, in the process enabling informed coastal management decision-making.

 

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Clients Say...

Robert's excellent video presentation was a highlight of the day for many in attendance. My colleagues of EPA was also impressed that CZM were so professional, flexible and innovative in their approach and their thoughts and experience will be very helpful to form the future strategies to adapt to coastal climate change impacts in Taiwan.

Dr. Wen-Yan Chiau
Deputy Minister
Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration

Did You Know?


July 2010

CZM staff played a number of roles at the recent Climate Adaptation Futures Conference last month at the Gold Coast Convention Centre. The first in a new series of international conferences, the event attracted nearly 1000 participants from across the globe...more

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