SMEA faculty and students have been out and about this fall quarter!

During the last week of October, SMEA Director Terrie Klinger, Professor Eddie Allison, Post-doctoral Researcher Nina Bednaršek and SMEA Graduate Student Hannah Bassett attended the IMBIZO IV conference in Trieste, Italy. The theme of IMBIZO IV was Marine and Human Systems: Addressing multiple scales and multiple stressors. Bassett presented a talk entitled “A Framework of Frameworks: Assessing existing tools for implementation of Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM)”. Allison and Bednaršek presented talks on societal response to long-term changes in highly variable systems and use of pteropods (microscopic zooplankton) as indicators for ocean acidification across different upwelling regimes, respectively. Workshops aimed “to showcase the current state of knowledge in marine and human systems and their governance” and were interspersed with plenary discussions for the larger group to “synthesize current knowledge and identify key questions to be addressed by the IMBER research community”.

In November Professor Marc Miller and Graduate Student Kayla Boyes attended the International Coastal and Marine Tourism Society (ICMTS) Congress in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.

Boyes presented a poster titled “Applying Wildlife Conservation Tourism to Marine Endangered Species Conservation.” During the closing ceremonies Professor Miller was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding and continued service to the International Coastal and Marine Tourism Society. Miller is a co-founder of the society congress, and has been attending since the first congress in 1990.