Research Themes:
Marine Protected Areas
Marine Aquaculture
Tradeoff Analysis for Spatial Planning
Coupled Natural - Human Systems
Fishery Assessment and Sustainability
Marine Biogeography
Current Funded Projects:
Tools to Assess and Respond to Climate Impacts on Bonaire National Marine Park (Collaboration with STINAPA Bonaire; Funded by Pew Charitable Trust’s Lenfest Oceans Program)
State Marine Aquaculture Policy (Collaboration with the Sea Grant Law Center at the University of Mississippi; Funded by Builders Initiative)
Blue Prosperity Coalition (Collaboration with EmLab-UCSB and the Waitt Institute; Funded by the Waitt Foundation).
Recently Completed Projects:
A multidisciplinary analysis of the spatial patterns of marine aquaculture development (Funded by the NSF GSS program).
Assessing policy barriers for mariculture in the United States while accounting for fisheries context (Collaboration with Froehlich Lab-UCSB; Funded by NOAA Sea Grant).
Multiscale dynamics of coral reef fisheries: feedbacks between fishing practices, livelihood strategies, and shifting dominance of coral and algae (Collaboration with Rassweiler Lab-FSU, UC Santa Barbara, and San Diego State University; Funded by the NSF CNH program).
Developing an integrated monitoring and assessment framework for evaluating ecosystem service outcomes from seagrass restoration in the Gulf of Mexico (Collaboration with Rassweiler Lab-FSU; Funded by the NASEM Gulf Research Program).