Congratulations to Professor Eddie Allison, Post-Doc Nathan Bennett, Professor Nives Dolsak, Assistant Professor Ryan Kelly, SMEA Alumna Natalie Lowell, Post-Doc Jimmy O’Donnell and SMEA Alumni Jesse Port on their publications that have come out winter quarter covering a variety of topics in marine and environmental affairs.

EDDIE ALLISON

Christophe Bene, Robert Arthur, Hannah Norbury, Edward H. Allison, Malcolm Beveridge, Simon Bush, Liam Campling, Will Leschen, David Little, Dale Squires, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Max Troell, and Meryl Williams. 2016. Contribution of Fisheries and Aquaculture to Food Security and Poverty Reduction: Assessing the Current Evidence. World Development 79 177-196 doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.11.007

D. Belhabib, Sea Around Us Project, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, D. Hellebrandt Da Silva, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, E.H. Allison, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, D. Zeller & D. Pauly. 2016. Filling a blank on the map: 60 years of fisheries in Equatorial Guinea. Fisheries Management and Ecology DOI: 10.1111/fme.12161

NATHAN BENNETT

Nathan James Bennett. 2016. Using perceptions as evidence to improve conservation and environmental management. Marine Policy on line DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12681

Bennett, N., Kadfak, A. & Dearden, P. 2015. Community-based scenario planning: A process for vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning to social-ecological change in coastal communities. Environment, Development and Sustainability. online. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10668-015-9707-1

Bennett, N. Blythe, J., Tyler, S., Ban, N. 2015. Communities and Change in the Anthropocene: Understanding Social-Ecological Vulnerability and Planning Adaptations to Multiple Interacting Exposures. Regional Environmental Change. online. http://link.springer.com/article/10.[1007%2Fs10113-015-0839-5

NIVES DOLSAK 

Dolsak, Nives. Prakash, Aseem. “NGOs are great at demanding transparency. They’re not so hot at providing it.” The Washington Post 22 February 2016: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/02/22/ngos-are-great-at-demanding-transparency-theyre-not-so-hot-at-providing-it/

NATALIE LOWELL, RYAN KELLY

Natalie Lowell, Ryan Kelly. 2016. Evaluating agency use of “best available science” under the United States Endangered Species Act. Biological Conservation doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.02.003

JIMMY O’DONNELL, RYAN KELLY, NATALIE LOWELL, JESSE PORT

James L. O’Donnell, Ryan P. Kelly, Natalie C. Lowell, Jesse A. Port. 2016. Indexed PCR Primers Induce Template-Specific Bias in Large-Scale DNA Sequencing Studies. PLOS DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148698

JESSE PORT, JIMMY O’DONNELL, RYAN KELLY

Jesse A. Port, * James L. O’Donnell, Ofelia C. Romero-Maraccini, *Paul R. Leary, Steven Y. Litvin, Kerry J. Nickols, Kevan M. Yamahara and Ryan P.Kelly. 2015. Assessing vertebrate biodiversity in a kelp forest ecosystem using environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology DOI: 10.1111/mec.13481