My Fellowship was awarded when I was Head of the Field Studies Council's Oil Pollution Research Unit (OPRU) near the oil port of Milford Haven. I travelled to the USA and Canada, visiting university laboratories and industrial facilities, and had valuable discussions and field trips with environmental scientists. Long-term contacts were established, to OPRU's benefit, and our work expanded, including a variety of co-operative international projects.

Over many years, our findings on coastal and marine ecology together with the effects of different types of oil pollution and remedial measures were published in various ways, including academic journals, introductory booklets, and delivered as courses and talks for industrialists. I eventually moved to the Field Studies Council head office near Shrewsbury, with a widened remit as Research Director for the whole organisation.

And so I came to live in the Shropshire village of Ruyton-XI-Towns where I contributed to village life as a primary school governor and non-stipendiary priest. In 2017 I moved to a Church of England retirement community in Devon, where I've been helping to plant trees and establish a wildflower area.