Kiva Oken, Assistant Professor of the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology shared her research on management of marine fisheries. Diversification of fishing portfolios of individuals, vessels, and communities can stabilize interannual variability of income at each level of organization. This portfolio effect is stronger ...
Kaiwen Wang shared his research on regulations for trawl fisheries in China. Despite strong evidence of over-fishing, China’s fisheries have maintained a steady rate of growth for decades and become one of the largest producers in the world seafood market. On the other side, most of the marine ...
Jack Buckner presented his research on kelp forest restoration in California. Kelp forests large stands of macro-algae that grow in near shore temperate ecosystems around the world...
François Castonguay presented his research on ecological interventions. Ecological interventions that prevent and manage environmentally transmitted diseases are receiving increasing interest by both researchers and practitioners...
Mark Agerton presented his research on oil production. Oil production in West Texas’ Permian Basin has exploded over the last decade, and so has production of associated natural gas ...
François Castonguay presented his research on vaccine preventable diseases. Vaccine hesitancy—the delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite ...
Pierce Donovan presented his research on shadow value viability and bycatch management in fishery. The benefits from avoiding [irreversible] extinction events are often not well-known, which makes an expected net benefits approach to conservation problems difficult to justify...
Jesus Arellano Gonzalez presented his research on climate change and agriculture. This paper demonstrates that the impact of climate change is different for rainfed and irrigated agriculture...
Emily McGlynn presented her research on forests and climate change. Forests are considered a primary tool for addressing climate change. Expanding global forest area ...
Jack Buckner presented his research on fish population dynamics. Human activities have large impacts on the population and community dynamics of marine fish ...
Matthew Gammans presented his research on agriculture adaptation to climate change. This work is a collaboration with Pierre Mérel and Ariel Ortiz Bobea. Growing evidence indicates that climate change will reduce the yields of key crops in the United States...
François Castonguay presented his research on treatment policies against environmentally transmitted diseases (ETDs). This work is a collaboration with Jim Sanchirico. This paper investigates trade-offs between ...
Paul Mwebaze presented his research on biosecurity inspections in Australia. This work is a collaboration with Michael Springborn. This International shipping is recognised as a major pathway for transporting invasive species between countries ...
