Coastal Zone, Ecosystem, and Resource Management
Faculty active in these research areas:
- Professor Patrick Christie
- Professor Emeritus Marc Miller
- Professor of Practice Phil Levin
- Associate Professor Anne Beaudreau
- Associate Professor Emeritus David Fluharty
- Assistant Professor Erendira Aceves Bueno
- Assistant Professor Sunny Jardine
- Assistant Professor Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
Please see individual faculty web pages for more about their work in this area.
Related SMEA courses:
- SMEA 476: Introduction to Environmental Law and Processes
- SMEA 502: Decision Making and Action Taking in Marine Affairs
- SMEA 509: Integrated Coastal Management
- SMEA 515: US Ocean and Coastal Law
- SMEA 538: Economics of Living Marine Resources
- SMEA 539: US Fisheries Management and Policy
- SMEA 581: Case Study Method: Living Marine Resource Management
Examples of what MMA students do in these research areas:
- learn how and why integrated coastal management is practiced in the US and internationally
- learn the laws that govern living marine resources and analyze interactions with other marine laws and management regimes
- explore conservation issues such as bycatch, habitat protection, and the role of marine protected areas in fisheries
- consider emerging management trends such as ecosystem based management and coastal and marine spatial planning.
- conduct multidisciplinary analyses and formal and informal evaluation and decision-making
- explore the role of living marine resources in human livelihoods and well-being
- examine international issues such as transboundary and highly migratory species and illegal and unreported high-seas fishing.
Examples of related MMA student theses:
- Sifrit, Allie. 2017. Perceptions of compliance in co-managed marine protected areas from three stakeholder groups in 2 MPAs in Maluku, Indonesia.
- Sayre, Colin. 2017. Catch Shares and Job Satisfaction in the West Coast Groundfish Trawl Fishery.
- Stote, Alex. 2019. Nitrogen accumulation in eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) varies significantly across the Delaware Inland Bays.
- Kennedy, Thomas. 2020. Risk of Ship Strike and Noise to Cetaceans in the Bering Strait.
Examples of related MMA student capstones:
- Hanna, Ian; Cleland, Valerie. 2018. Capstone: Oil Exports: New Shipping Patterns and Changing Risks of Spills.
- Moran, Angela; Forristall, Lou. 2020. Capstone: The Implications of Uncertainty in Bycatch Estimates for Pacific Halibut and Sablefish.