The School of Marine and Environmental Affairs is continuing to make their quarterly Speakers Series available virtually to create easier access for students, alumni, and friends to participate in the presentations and discussions.

This quarter’s lineup features four speakers offering a wide variety of topics:

Thursday, April 14, 12-1 pm: Eréndira Aceves Bueno, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs will present “Overcoming barriers to coastal governance in Mexico”. Artisanal fisheries are the foundation of healthy livelihoods in coastal communities globally. In Mexico, as in other parts of the world, they play a key role in food security. However, artisanal fisheries often operate under open access, which can lead to overfishing and increase the vulnerability of coastal systems to different sources of stress, such as climate change. In this talk, I will share the important role that Mexican fishing cooperatives have on preventing these outcomes. I will particularly focus on a portfolio of current efforts to improve and expand the role of fishing concessions and cooperatives in the country. Finally, I will highlight some of the most important challenges for Mexican small-scale fisheries and potential paths to solving them, as well as lessons for other fisheries globally.

Thursday, April 28, 12-1 pm: Katrina Hoffman ’07, President and CEO, Prince William Sound Science Center will offer “Reflections from the edge of the world’s richest waters”.

Thursday, May 12, 12-1 pm: Josh Nowlis, President and Bioeconomic Analyst, Bridge Environment is presenting “Using psychology to make science credible, relevant, and valued in environmental policy debates”. Despite the outsized influence of uncertainty in policy debates, we are usually clumsy in our treatment of uncertainty. This presentation will describe the psychology of decision-making under uncertainty; propose a conceptual system for how to make science and its uncertainty credible, relevant, and valued; and provide examples of applications ranging from fisheries to climate.

Thursday, May 19, 12-1 pm: Lala Ma, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, Department of Economics will discuss “Environmental Justice: Causes and consequences of inequitable pollution exposure”. The environmental justice literature has found that the poor and people of color are disproportionately exposed to pollution. This talk discusses the research documenting correlations between pollution and demographics and the potential causes of these correlations from an economics perspective, including policies or regulations that may unintentionally exacerbate existing inequities. Understanding the sources of inequitable pollution burdens has implications for crafting effective policy going forward.

Video link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92079340874

Meeting ID: 920 7934 0874

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Meeting ID: 920 7934 0874