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)”.  

SMEA Professor Eddie Allison and graduate student Hannah Bassett co-authored a paper titled “Climate change in the oceans: Human impacts and responses” that was recently published in Science. The paper was part of a special issue of Science dedicated to informing the upcoming COP21 meeting in Paris. As an article from UW Today explains, the paper “looks at scientific understanding of changes to the world’s oceans and how people around the world are responding to those changes. 

On November 6 the UW School of Law brought together many of the world’s leading experts on ocean acidification in its first-annual Environmental Law Symposium. The symposium had a large turnout of 250+ attendees and included speakers such as Jay Manning of Cascadia Law Group PLLC and Dennis McLerran of EPA Region 10. SMEA Director Terrie Klinger and Affiliate Assistant Professor Jan Newton kicked off the morning science panel talking about the latest research and findings on ocean acidification. 

Congratulations to Nives Dolsak on her recent promotion from Associate Professor to Professor! We are also pleased to announce Professor Dolsak will join SMEA on a full-time basis this autumn quarter. Previously Professor Dolsak taught at both the Seattle and Bothell UW campuses. She has been recognized time and again for her outstanding teaching, most recently winning the Outstanding Teaching Faculty award from the College of the Environment, University of Washington in 2013.  

Assistant Professor Lekelia (Kiki) Jenkins will soon be embarking on an exciting new venture at Arizona State University. Professor Jenkins began as a Research Associate with SMEA in 2009 and was hired on as an Assistant Professor in 2011. From her research seeking creative solutions to problems in marine systems, as well as ways to promote sustainable resource use, to her thought-provoking and informative instruction, Professor Jenkins has been a pleasure to work with and she will be missed. 

Congratulations to SMEA professors Eddie Allison, Patrick Christie and Ryan Kelly who all have papers that were recently published.
In June, Professor Eddie Allison’s paper, “Changes in adaptive capacity of Kenyan fishing communities” was published in Nature Climate Change. Professor Patrick Christie co-authored the article, “Scientific Frontiers in the Management of Coral Reefs” which was published in Frontiers in Marine Science. 

SMEA Assistant Professor Ryan Kelly was part of an international team of scientists and policy experts that collaborated on a report titled, “Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios” recently published in the journal Science.
“This work brings together all of the best available science on the effects of global change for the world’s ocean, and clearly sets out how our environmental policy decisions today lead to very different future scenarios. 

Professor Eddie Allison’s latest paper, “Changes in adaptive capacity of Kenyan fishing communities” has been published in Nature Climate Change.
The research conducted by Professor Allison and his colleagues shows how indicators of adaptive capacity within a particular livelihood group are socially differentiated by age, migrant status and participation, and whether they changed amongst the sampled population over time. The results suggest that community-level interventions such as provision of infrastructure or services such as credit facilities may help to increase aspects of adaptive capacity over time. 

Professor Eddie Allison participated in research to evaluate the effectiveness of fishery improvement projects in his Science publication titled, “Secure sustainable seafood from developing countries.” 

Assistant Professor Ryan Kelly’s latest article, “Will More Better, Cheaper, and Faster Monitoring Improve Environmental Management?” has been published in Environmental Law Review, the law journal from Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, OR (Volume 44, Number 4, 2014. pp. 1111-1147.)
In this article, Dr. Kelly addresses how the use of new technologies for genetic analysis allow for more powerful and more cost-effective environmental data collection, and the impacts that data will have on management decisions and practices.