Environmental Protection and Restoration
Faculty active in this research area:
- Professor Patrick Christie
- Professor Terrie Klinger
- 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 500: Human Dimensions of Global Change
- SMEA 510: Topics in Marine Ecology
- SMEA 514: Marine Pollution Management and Policy
- Other relevant courses are offered through the College of the Environment certificate programs for Environmental Management and Restoration Ecology
Examples of what MMA students do in this research area:
- learn theory and practice of coastal and environmental restoration
- connect with restoration practice in Puget Sound and the Pacific Northwest
- understand how science and society interconnect through restoration policy and planning
- learn how scientific communities communicate about restoration
Examples of related MMA student theses:
- Freeman, Rachel. 2017. Drinking Water Qulaity in Seatlle Public Schools: A Case of Environmental Equity.
- Blair, Kathryn. 2017. Creating a harmful algal bloom community impact index from secondary sources.
- Bagley, Ashley. 2019. Evaluating temperature buffering capacity of floodplain side channels to promote refugia for salmonoids in the Stillaguamish River Basin.
- Farquhar, Samantha. 2019. Implications of ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’ for marine conservation.
- Otsuka, Karin. 2020. Are we obligated to care about the ocean? The dichotomous perceptions of marine debris in Miyako, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.