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)”.  

The School of Marine and Environmental Affairs was recently represented at the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE) & United States Society for Ecological Economics (USSEE) 2015 Joint Biennial Conference by Research Associate Dr. Stacia Dreyer and 2nd year graduate student Hilary Polis. The conference, themed, Pathways for Change: Toward a Just and Sustainable Economy, was held in Vancouver, BC, Canada October 1-4. 

SMEA would like to welcome its newest post-doc and Fulbright Visiting Scholar Dr. Nathan Bennett. Nathan will be working with Professor Patrick Christie conducting research on the human dimensions of marine conservation and management. He recently published his first article associated with his new affiliation at UW titled “Communities and change in the anthropocene: Understanding social-ecological vulnerability and planning adaptations to multiple interacting exposures”. 

SMEA Research Associate Stacia Dreyer led a study looking at views towards a carbon pricing policy before and after the 2013 federal election in Australia, which was the first nation to repeal an existing carbon pricing policy.
The report, “Australians’ views on carbon pricing before and after the 2013 federal election,” was published in Nature Climate Change. The study found policy acceptance was higher than support at both times, and acceptance did not always lead to support, highlighting the need to measure acceptance and support separately.