Environmental Consultancy and
Environmental Management Services

Scott Cawley Staff

A e b h í n   C a w l e y

Aebhín Cawley is the founding co-Director of Scott Cawley Ltd.  She holds an honours degree in Zoology and a postgraduate diploma in Physical Planning, both from Trinity College Dublin.  Aebhín is a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) with the Society for the Environment (Soc Env), an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) and a Full Member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (IEEM).  She is on the Steering Group for the IEMA in Ireland.  Aebhin is a member of the Heritage Council’s panel of bat surveyors and is also on the National Parks and Wildlife Service’s panel of approved ecologists. 

Aebhín specialises in environmental project management, particularly with respect to EIA, ecology & socio-economic impact studies, and public consultation.  She project manages environmental projects for a range of sensitive developments including pharmaceutical facilities, port developments and road schemes.  Aebhín regularly conducts flora and fauna impact assessments for inclusion within EISs.  She has extensive ecological expertise which covers habitat assessments as well as specialist mammal (including all bat species) and avifauna surveying.  Aebhín has developed habitat restoration plans as well as ecology masterplans and has been called on for on-site ecological monitoring during construction works.

P a u l   S c o t t

Paul Scott is co-Director with Scott Cawley Ltd.  He holds a first class honours degree in Environmental Biology from the University of Liverpool and a Masters in Pollution and Environmental Control from the University of Manchester.  Paul is a Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) with the Society for the Environment (Soc Env) and a Full Member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (IEEM).  He is Treasurer for the Irish Geographic Section of IEEM.  He is a member of the International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA) and a visiting lecturer at University College Dublin.  Paul is also an approved member of the Heritage Council’s panel of bat surveyors. 

Paul is an experienced environmental consultant, specialising in impact assessment and ecology.  He has experience in a wide variety of environmental assessment and management projects, particularly in the preparation and coordination of EIA studies and in specialist ecology inputs.   Paul regularly carries out flora and fauna impact assessments, specialist habitat and fauna surveys and preliminary ecological surveys to identify ecological constraints to proposed developments. 

Paul has undertaken research into a range of contemporary environmental issues and has published in international journals and contributed to international guidelines and books.  He has carried out research on EIA and SEA and has prepared guidance on SEA and EIA to UK and Irish central government and local authorities. 

Robert Fennelly

Robert Fennelly holds an honours degree in Botany from Trinity College Dublin, and received a Dean’s commendation for his Masters Degree thesis in Biodiversity & Conservation from the University of Exeter in Cornwall. Specializing in ornithological impact assessment, Robert is an experienced ecological consultant with broad experience in both public and private sector developments across the island of Ireland including roads, railway, windfarm, WasteWater Treatment Works, underground gas storage, petrol filling station and Landfill projects. He has extensive experience of bird, habitat, mammal, and amphibian survey from Ecological Impact Assessment and Appropriate Assessments across the island of Ireland. He has also undertaken BREEAM assessments, and on-site ecological monitoring involving plant translocation and mammal fencing/nesting bird checks. Robert is an Associate member of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. Robert has several publications on both botany and ornithology, and several protected species survey licences for Smooth Newt across Ireland. He is an active bird ringer, and a member of a large number of ecological groups and associations including the British Trust for Ornithology, and the Irish Raptor Study Group

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