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.