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SPRING 2018 E-NEWS
 
Welcome 
 
As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions, we are excited about the opportunities to help create innovations that sustain the resilience of the oceans and the people who depend on them. These opportunities are built on partnerships. We are forging new collaborations with colleagues here at Stanford – across ocean sciences, computer science, design, and business – and at other universities. We are also building collaborations with partners, like the World Economic Forum and the Ocean Conservancy, who can help shape solutions and translate them into impact.  
 
Some early steps in these collaborations are reflected in this update – including work with the Ocean Conservancy and Arctic experts to look at how we can understand and manage the many interacting stressors in that region; and a workshop with marine biologists, economists, and Palauan leaders to explore the challenge of fisheries and food security in that country.  

We look forward to sharing more updates with you in the near future and continuing to work together to address today’s most pressing ocean challenges.    
 
Best wishes,
Fio Micheli and Jim Leape
Co-Directors
Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions


NEWS


Arctic Forum

In January, the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions hosted a lunch forum with the Woods Institute for the Environment, focused on "Challenges in the Arctic: Managing an Expanding Ocean Frontier." Arctic policy experts came together to better understand and address the potential impacts of multiple stressors in the region.
 
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Fran Ulmer Q&A

Fran Ulmer, the Cox Visiting Professor at Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, spoke recently about the Arctic and its under-appreciated connections to the lives of people around the world. Read on to learn about the region's growing importance for global climate, trade and geopolitics.

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Stanford event on April 4th>



Managing Palau’s Fisheries

The Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions (COS) co-hosted a workshop earlier this month alongside the Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC). The workshop aimed to identify risks, interventions and critical research needs relating to Palau's marine resources, fisheries and food security. This collaboration builds upon the existing relationship between key Palauan leaders and Stanford University.

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Ocean Sciences Meeting 2018

In the middle of February, Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions fellows, affiliates, students, and researchers joined scientists from across the nation and the world at the biannual Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland. The OSM is an important venue for scientific exchange across broad marine science disciplines.
 
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New Coastal Adaptation Webpage

A collection of new resources is now available to help advance sustainable, strategic coastal adaptation planning move toward successful implementation - protecting people and property now and for the future.
 
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Policy Briefs>
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FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

Stanford d.school Teaching Fellowship
The Stanford d.school and Center for Ocean Solutions are co-hosting a teaching fellowship. This is a 13-month program aimed at creating a cohort of designer and ocean experts who will work together to develop new content, courses, and opportunities at the intersection of design and the oceans to tackle critical challenges. Learn more >

André Hoffmann Fellow: Ocean Innovations
The World Economic Forum and Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions seek a Hoffmann Fellow for a two-year joint appointment. The Fellow will be based jointly in the Forum’s Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (“C4IR”) in San Francisco, California, which is dedicated to addressing the possibilities and challenges posed by the explosion of technological innovation – from AI to biotechnology, and Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions. Learn more >
 
Monterey Office moves to Stanford Hopkins Marine Station
The Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions has staff members in Monterey and at Stanford's main campus. As we continue to align ourselves as a Stanford-based center we have moved our Monterey office to the Stanford Hopkins Marine Station.

Our new address:

120 Ocean View Blvd.
Agassiz Building, Room 21
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Phone: 831-333-2077 
 


 

STAFF SPOTLIGHT 

 
Stephanie Green, Early Career Science Fellow

 

Stephanie Green is an Early Career Science Fellow at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions where she leads research on the effects of climate change on ocean food webs. Stephanie is a Canadian native who grew up gaining an interest in the marine field by discovering intertidal creatures at low tide. Read on to learn why we have been so fortunate to have Stephanie on our team and why we will miss her greatly as she transitions into her new chapter. 
 
IN THE NEWS

Stanford law and water quality experts discuss possible expansion of offshore oil drilling operations

Before reefs become deserts: Keeping coral healthy in Hawaii
 
Stanford researchers use satellites to map global fishing footprint
 
Q&A with Stanford’s Larry Crowder and Elena Finkbeiner on climate change and small-scale fisheries in the Pacific
 
Learning through fieldwork on Pacific coral reefs

 

PUBLICATIONS

Finkbeiner E.M., F. Micheli, A. Saenz-Arroyo, L. Vazquez-Vera, C.A. Perafan, J.C. Cárdenas (January 2018) Local response to global uncertainty: Insights from experimental economics in small-scale fisheries. Global Environmental Change 48: 151-157. 

Cornu E.L., Doerr A.N., Finkbeiner E.M., Gourlie D., Crowder L.B. (February 2018) Spatial management in small-scale fisheries: A potential approach for climate change adaptation in Pacific Islands. Marine Policy 88: 350-358. 

Wedding L.M., Lecky J., Gove J.M., Walecka H.R., Donovan M.K., Williams G.J., Jouffray J., Crowder L.B., Erickson A., Falinski K., Friedlander A.M., Kappel C.V., Kittinger J.N., McCoy K., Norstrom A., Nystrom M., Oleson K.L.L., Stamoulis K.A., White C., Selkoe K.A. (March 2018) Advancing the integration of spatial data to map human and natural drivers on coral reefs. PLoS One 13(3): e0189792. 

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