Production of ecosystem services, how does human impact change service provision

Dry land ecosystem analysis, working with on coastal marine management with UCSB scientists, Fishery management and general equilibrium

Spatial management PPF (or efficiency frontier) involving economic benefits vs. preserving ecological diversity

US based mostly, working with intersection between sociology and ecology

Social impact in communities, forest service (ski lifts at steamboat), DOE and setting of hazardous waste facilities, natural resource organizations

Oregon sea grant, coastal communities, human and community capital

Bring to he group, social structure and social institution knowledge, social modeling, help strengthen relationship between coastal management and communities

Marine estuary work, relationship between community structure and strength of interaction between species, trying to figure out which species are important and for what reasons

Salt marsh work in New England for PhD, looked at interspecies relationships

Looking into aquaculture, oyster farming and eel grass habitats (non-native Japanese oysters brought invasive flora)

Bruwine shrimp, bioengineered, live with oysters and thought of as pests

Rocky intertidal systems in New Zealand, Cal and Oregon coast, looking at how upwelling (nutrient) influences community structure

Dune grass and sand dunes in Oregon, positive vs. negative impacts of introduction of dune preserving grass

Chemical engineering

Empirical experience, applied game theory and behavioral economics

Interdisciplinary experience

20 years in Europe, interest in development and economic resources

How poor countries utilize scarce resources

Coastal land interests recently, mangrove issues

Linkages between mangrove forests and coral reefs, energy flow between (panama, belize)

Effects of watershed disturbance on marine systems in Oregon

socio-economic factor effects on conservation success of coral reefs - Comoros islands

Specialty - mangrove coral reef connectivity, stable isotope analysis - nutrient flows, and disturbance ecology, connection between systems, coming from community conservation education

Interests in working group - develop framework for assessing value of coastal habitats, utilize coastal habitats as a foundation for ecosystem-based management

provide tools for managers, engage stakeholders by providing a value on ecosystem services

Species dynamics over life cycle

Marine reserve theory and design, how different areas perform (mostly synthetic and theoretical, some empirics)

Community ecology and dynamic changes to such

Global threat assessment for marine ecosystems, ranking and mapping anthropogenic effects on marine communities, eventually have a map showing how humans are impacting

Tied to Micheli and Rosenberg working group (Science Frameworks for EBM), develop a scientific framework for implementation of EBM in coastal marine systems

Models of species interaction to integrate into EBM, produce rules of thumb for managers (fisheries, coastal farmers)

Empirics - Statistical models of human activities and links to ecosystem characteristics, more micro based looking at tradeoffs rather than a lump sum valuation

Ecosystem boundary delineation via spatial analysis, anthropogenic factors

Interdisciplinary work - Bahamas Biocomplexity project; EPA funded work on investigating climate change and impacts on coral reefs

GIS multicriteria analysis - land suitability, vaunerability and resistance, homogeneous regions

Conservation planning methods - reserve selection, prioritization, ecosystem services

Use logical modeling tools to create filters in order to classify land

Biology, MIT; Public Policy, Minnesota

Grad work in conservation biology

worked in environmental consulting and community development

Maximizing ecological return on investments, land use planning, modeling incentive based policies

CV, Travel Cost, Hedonics valuation methods, programming experience

Economics and ecological conservation

Ethno history, archeology, human ecology

Solomon Islands - local knowledge, indigenous knowledge and integration into management plans, creates hybrid methodology between hard and social sciences, tradeoffs involved

Created network of marine protected areas in the Solomons

Development work, 13 projects building clinics, schools, etc

Cultural sensitivity analysis, microeconomic analysis, spatial analysis, nutritional and medical anthropology

Use local knowledge in conjunction with EBM

Asian aquaculture research (80-90% of all)

Environmental and socioeconomic implications of shrimp farming on mangroves, loss of mangroves due to production

Integrated mangrove aquaculture systems in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc.

Difficult to implement, long term benefits

Mangrove education projects involving students (high school and university), Instructional modules

Using local governance to conserve and rehabilitate mangroves