A5029834679- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
University of Washington
2007-2024
The Nature Conservancy
2017-2024
The White House
2024
Office of Science and Technology Policy
2024
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
2009-2022
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Fisheries Science Center
2009-2022
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2009-2022
Seattle University
2001-2022
Vital Strategies
2019
The University of Queensland
2013
Background: At a time of increasing disconnectedness from nature, scientific interest in the potential health benefits nature contact has grown. Research recent decades yielded substantial evidence, but large gaps remain our understanding. Objectives: We propose research agenda on and health, identifying principal domains key questions that, if answered, would provide basis for evidence-based public interventions. Discussion: identify seven domains: a) mechanistic biomedical studies; b)...
Integrated ecosystem assessments challenge the broader scientific community to move beyond important task of tallying insults marine ecosystems developing quantitative tools that can support decisions national and regional resource managers must make.
Globally, environmental disasters impact billions of people and cost trillions dollars in damage, their impacts are often felt most acutely by minority poor communities. Wildfires the U.S. have similarly outsized on vulnerable communities, though ethnic geographic distribution those communities may be different than for other hazards. Here, we develop a social-ecological approach characterizing fire vulnerability apply it to >70,000 census tracts across United States. Our incorporates both...
Social indicators, both mature and emerging, are underused
Abstract As climatic changes and human uses intensify, resource managers other decision makers are taking actions to either avoid or respond ecosystem tipping points, dramatic shifts in structure function that often costly hard reverse. Evidence indicates explicitly addressing points leads improved management outcomes. Drawing on theory examples from marine systems, we distill a set of seven principles guide effective ecosystems with derived the best available science. These based...
Ecological interactions among invading species are common and may often be important in facilitating invasions. Indeed, the presence of one nonindigenous can act as an agent disturbance that facilitates invasion a second species. However, most studies anecdotal do not provide substantive evidence have any community-level effects. Here, using combination field experiments observations we examine introduced New England kelp forests ask whether these altered paradigms describing subtidal...
Hatchery programmes for supplementing depleted populations of fish are undergoing a worldwide expansion and have provoked concern about their ramifications wild fish. In particular, Pacific salmon artificially propagated in enormous numbers order to compensate numerous human insults populations, yet the ecological impacts this massive hatchery effort poorly understood. Here we test hypothesis that hatchery-raised chinook reduce marine survival Snake River spring chinook, threatened species...
Abstract Environments are complex socioecological systems demanding interdisciplinary research and conservation. Despite significant progress in characterizing complexity, including important inroads for measuring human wellbeing through ecosystem services approaches, cultural interactions with ecosystems remain poorly understood. Inadequate knowledge of dimensions challenges the ability conservation professionals to include these considerations their programs. Ecosystem‐based without is not...
One of the greatest obstacles to moving ecosystem-based management (EBM) from concept practice is lack a systematic approach defining ecosystem-level decision criteria, or reference points that trigger action.To assist resource managers and policymakers in developing EBM we introduce quantitative, transferable method for identifying utility thresholds. A threshold level human-induced pressure (e.g., pollution) at which small changes produce substantial improvements toward goal protecting an...
Many of the world's most vulnerable and rapidly changing ecosystems are also among data-poor, leading to an increased interest in use local ecological knowledge (LEK) document long-term environmental change. The integration multiple sources for assessing species abundance distribution has gained traction over past decade as a growing number case studies show concordance between LEK scientific data. This study advances quantitative approaches synthesizing by presenting novel application...
Over 1.3 billion people live on tropical coasts, primarily in developing countries. Many depend adjacent coastal seas for food, and livelihoods. We show how trends demography several local global anthropogenic stressors are progressively degrading capacity of waters to sustain these people. Far more effective approaches environmental management needed if the loss provision ecosystem goods services is be stemmed. propose expanded use marine spatial planning as a framework effective, pragmatic...
Abstract Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has emerged as a basic approach for managing human activities in marine ecosystems, with the aim of recovering and conserving ecosystems services they deliver. Integrated ecosystem assessments (IEAs) further transition EBM from principle to practice by providing an efficient, transparent means summarizing status components, screening prioritizing potential risks, evaluating alternative strategies against backdrop environmental variability. In this...
Regime shifts have been observed in marine ecosystems around the globe. These phenomena can result dramatic changes provision of ecosystem services to coastal communities. Accounting for regime management clearly requires integrative, ecosystem-based (EBM) approaches. EBM has emerged as an accepted paradigm ocean worldwide, yet, despite rapid and intense development theory, implementation languished, many implemented or proposed schemes largely ignore special characteristics shifts. Here, we...
Ecological data sets rarely extend back more than a few decades, limiting our understanding of environmental change and its drivers. Marine historical ecology has played critical role in filling these gaps by illuminating the magnitude rate ongoing changes marine ecosystems. Yet despite growing body knowledge, insights are explicitly incorporated mainstream conservation management efforts. Failing to consider can have major implications for conservation, such as ratcheting down expectations...
Abstract The appetite for ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) approaches has grown, but the perception persists that implementation is slow. Here, we synthesize progress toward implementing EBFM in United States through one potential avenue: expanding fish stock assessments to include ecosystem considerations and interactions between species, fleets, sectors. We reviewed over 200 assessed how assessment reports included information about system influences on stock. Our goals were...
Abstract Borne out of a collective movement towards ecosystem-based management (EBM), multispecies and multi-sector scientific assessments the ocean are emerging around world. In USA, integrated ecosystem (IEAs) were formally defined 5 years ago to serve as foundation for marine EBM. As outlined by US National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration in 2008, an IEA is cyclical process consisting setting goals targets, defining indicators, analysing status, trends, risk, evaluating alternative...
Abstract Resource managers and policy makers have long recognized the importance of considering fisheries in context ecosystems; yet, movement towards widespread Ecosystem‐based Fisheries Management (EBFM) has been slow. A conceptual reframing management is occurring globally, which envisions as systems with interacting biophysical human subsystems. This broader view, along a process for decision making, can facilitate implementation EBFM. pathway to achieve these broadened objectives EBFM...
Abstract Climate change is exacerbating the need for urban greening and associated environmental human well-being benefits. Trees can help mitigate heat, but more detailed understanding of cooling effects green infrastructure are needed to guide management decisions deploy trees as effective equitable climate adaptation infrastructure. We investigated how affect summer air temperature along sidewalks within a neighborhood Tacoma, Washington, USA, what extent reduce risks high temperatures...