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Introductions Steve Polasky – Minnesota, Environmental and Resource Economics Production of ecosystem services, how does human impact change service provision Dry land ecosystem analysis, working with on coastal marine management with UCSB scientists, Fishery management and general equilibrium Spatial management PPF (or efficiency frontier) involving economic benefits vs. preserving ecological diversity Lori Cramer – OSU, Sociology US based mostly, working with intersection between sociology and ecology Social impact in communities, forest service (ski lifts at steamboat), DOE and setting of hazardous waste facilities, natural resource organizations Oregon sea grant, coastal communities, human and community capital Bring to he group, social structure and social institution knowledge, social modeling, help strengthen relationship between coastal management and communities Sally Hacker – OSU, Marine Community Ecologist, Zoology dept Marine estuary work, relationship between community structure and strength of interaction between species, trying to figure out which species are important and for what reasons Salt marsh work in New England for PhD, looked at interspecies relationships Looking into aquaculture, oyster farming and eel grass habitats (nonnative Japanese oysters brought invasive flora) Bruwine shrimp, bioengineered, live with oysters and thought of as pests Rocky intertidal systems in New Zealand, Cal and Oregon coast, looking at how upwelling (nutrient) influences community structure Dune grass and sand dunes in Oregon, positive vs. negative impacts of introduction of dune preserving grass Chris Kennedy – Wyoming, Economics grad student Chemical engineering Empirical experience, applied game theory and behavioral economics Interdisciplinary experience Ed Barbier – Wyoming, Economics 20 years in Europe, interest in development and economic resources How poor countries utilize scarce resources Coastal land interests recently, mangrove issues Elise Granek – Portland State Linkages between mangrove forests and coral reefs, energy flow between (panama, belize) Effects of watershed disturbance on marine systems in Oregon socio-economic factor effects on conservation success of coral reefs – Comoros islands Specialty – mangrove coral reef connectivity, stable isotope analysis – nutrient flows, and disturbance ecology, connection between systems, coming from community conservation education Interests in working group – develop framework for assessing value of coastal habitats, utilize coastal habitats as a foundation for ecosystembased management provide tools for managers, engage stakeholders by providing a value on ecosystem services Ben Halpern – NCEAS, Evolutionary biology, ecology Species dynamics over life cycle Marine reserve theory and design, how different areas perform (mostly synthetic and theoretical, some empirics) Community ecology and dynamic changes to such Global threat assessment for marine ecosystems, ranking and mapping anthropogenic effects on marine communities, eventually have a map showing how humans are impacting Carrie Kappel – NCEAS, Postdoc Marine EBM Program Tied to Micheli and Rosenberg working group (Science Frameworks for EBM), develop a scientific framework for implementation of EBM in coastal marine systems o Develop integrated models to investigate management action and different tradeoffs o Develop empirical valuation approaches to support both model development and management Models of species interaction to integrate into EBM, produce rules of thumb for managers (fisheries, coastal farmers) Empirics – Statistical models of human activities and links to ecosystem characteristics, more micro based looking at tradeoffs rather than a lump sum valuation Ecosystem boundary delineation via spatial analysis, anthropogenic factors Interdisciplinary work – Bahamas Biocomplexity project; EPA funded work on investigating climate change and impacts on coral reefs David Stoms – UCSB, Geographer at Bren School GIS multicriteria analysis – land suitability, vaunerability and resistance, homogeneous regions Conservation planning methods – reserve selection, prioritization, ecosystem services Use logical modeling tools to create filters in order to classify land David Bael – Minnesota, Applied economics grad student Biology, MIT; Public Policy, Minnesota Grad work in conservation biology worked in environmental consulting and community development Maximizing ecological return on investments, land use planning, modeling incentive based policies CV, Travel Cost, Hedonics valuation methods, programming experience Economics and ecological conservation Shankar Aswani – UCSB, Anthropology, Ecology Ethno history, archeology, human ecology Solomon Islands - local knowledge, indigenous knowledge and integration into management plans, creates hybrid methodology between hard and social sciences, tradeoffs involved Created network of marine protected areas in the Solomons Development work, 13 projects building clinics, schools, etc Cultural sensitivity analysis, microeconomic analysis, spatial analysis, nutritional and medical anthropology Use local knowledge in conjunction with EBM Jurgenne Primavera – Mindanao State University, Phillipines Asian aquaculture research (80-90% of all) Environmental and socioeconomic implications of shrimp farming on mangroves, loss of mangroves due to production Integrated mangrove aquaculture systems in Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc. Difficult to implement, long term benefits Mangrove education projects involving students (high school and university), Instructional modules Using local governance to conserve and rehabilitate mangroves o establish nurseries, educational campaigns community management Evamaria Koch – Maryland, Center for Environmental Science Seagrasses – flowering, sub-tidal marine plants, important for all the services they provide, considered one of the most valuable ecosystems on the planet Global changes and seagrasses – monitoring (seagrassNet), sea level rises (shoreline retreat) and global warming affects on seagrass, hurricanes and hydrodynamics, seagrass habitat requirements, wave exposure Designing coastal protection programs, breakwalls aren’t always the best, sandbars better, working with US Army Corps of Engineers Want to develop consistent valuation process of services provided by grasses