Pew Marine Fellows 2010

2010 Pew Marine Fellows

Pew Marine Fellows
The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation provides fellowships to outstanding scientists and other individuals across the globe to support innovative, applied projects aimed at developing and implementing solutions to critical challenges facing the world’s oceans.
Each year, five individuals or, occasionally, teams are selected by a prominent international panel of experts to receive the prestigious Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation. Each Pew Fellow is awarded a $150,000 grant, allocated over three years, to complete an original, research-based marine conservation project. Fellowships applications are by nomination only.

Daniel J. Conley

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Daniel J Conley
Daniel Conley is a Professor at Lund University’s GeoBiosphere Science Centre in Sweden, where he researches environmental pathways of nutrients such as nitrogen and the linkages between land and aquatic ecosystems. His scientific activities focus on conservation of coastal marine ecosystems and providing policy makers and managers with a sound scientific basis for decision making. His Pew Fellowship project is designed to address the problems of excessive algal growth and reduced oxygen levels in the Baltic Sea, where the low oxygen area is five times larger than similarly affected waters in the Gulf of Mexico. He will evaluate various potential engineering-based remediation projects, such as advanced sewage treatment plants and harvesting algae for feeds. He will then compare these projects with more traditional land-based measures to reduce nutrient inputs to coastal waters. Dr. Conley will evaluate the effectiveness, relative costs and ecosystem consequences associated with remediation measures and communicate the results to the public, policy makers, managers and stakeholders. Conley received his Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography from the University of Michigan, USA.

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Omar Defeo

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Omar Defeo
Omar Defeo is a Professor in the Marine Science Unit at the Universidad de la República in Uruguay. Defeo is among a select group of ecologists worldwide working on sandy beach ecosystems and how they are threatened by sea level rise due to climate change. His long-term research efforts focus on the conservation of biodiversity and management of fisheries, with special emphasis on artisanal, or traditional small scale, coastal shellfisheries. His Pew Fellowship project seeks to improve shellfish management and conservation in Latin America through three sets of activities: evaluating and comparing different shellfish “co-management” systems; analyzing the potential long-term effects of climate change on selected shellfisheries and identifying opportunities for adaptation; and developing a network of shellfish conservationists and both mitigation and adaptive strategies in anticipation of climate change effects. Defeo holds a Doctor in Sciences from the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Mexico.

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Beth Fulton

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Beth Fulton
Beth Fulton is a Science Fellow and Senior Research Scientist for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia. She leads a marine ecosystem modeling team based at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research in Hobart, Tasmania. For the past ten years, Fulton has been the sole developer of the Atlantis ecosystem modeling framework. Her Pew Fellowship project is aimed at supporting sustainable marine management in the tropics and poles by developing better biodiversity models. She will then use these models to examine how the stressors on marine and coastal ecosystems, such as climate change and pollution, impact biodiversity and ecosystem function. This project will improve understanding of the dynamics of biodiversity in the tropics and poles, offer explicit guidance on the potential impacts of global climate change on the biodiversity of Antarctic ecosystems and strategically prioritize the threats to marine biodiversity in Indonesia. Fulton received her Ph.D. from the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia.

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Peter Mumby

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Peter Mumby
Peter Mumby is a Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Mumby’s Pew Fellowship will focus on ‘managing reefs for resilience’ by demonstrating how the resilience of ecosystems can be modeled across seascapes and then integrated into a marine reserve network in the Bahamas. Mumby will work closely with conservation practitioners, policy makers and stakeholders to improve the adaptation of reef management in response to climate change while at the same time strengthening associated fisheries management. Mumby recently accepted a position at the University of Queensland, Australia, which will commence in April 2010 and will benefit his Pew Fellowship by affording him more time, resources and opportunities to collaborate with other prominent scientists. Mumby holds a Ph.D. in coral reef and seagrass remote sensing from the University of Sheffield in the UK.

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Ben Sullivan

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Ben Sullivan
Ben Sullivan is the Coordinator of the BirdLife International Global Seabird Programme for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (UK). Sullivan’s work aims to find practical solutions to seabird bycatch and have them incorporated into national and international policies to deliver concrete conservation outcomes. His Pew Fellowship project will focus on improving the conservation status of several species of albatrosses and petrels and reducing the detrimental impacts of pelagic tuna and swordfish fisheries on seabirds by executing an at-sea experimental program to test bycatch reduction measures. Sullivan will present best practices for bycatch reduction in pelagic longline and trawl fisheries to targeted organizations with the goal of effectively reducing seabird bycatch in key Southern Hemisphere coastal states. Sullivan received a Ph.D. from the University of Queensland in Australia.

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