CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. Sustainable Poverty Alleviation for Coastal Ecosystem Services (SPACES) – as the ecological post-doctoral researcher in the SPACES project I am responsible for the collation of ecological data on fisheries and coral reef processes, and provide a bridge between the ecological data and the social science team.
2. Reefbudget – I am currently extending the Reefbudget (Perry et al. 2010) methodology of estimating coral reef carbonate production and bioerosion budgets from the Caribbean to the Indo-Pacific basin.
3. The effects of periodically harvested closures – I am part of a multi-institution working group led by Dr. Stacy Jupiter of the Wildlife Conservation Society investigating the role of periodically harvested closures in conservation and management. My main role in this working group is as joint lead (with Dr. Rene Abesamis) on a project to integrate estimates of fisheries vulnerability of coral reef fish with behaviour, gear and management.
2. Reefbudget – I am currently extending the Reefbudget (Perry et al. 2010) methodology of estimating coral reef carbonate production and bioerosion budgets from the Caribbean to the Indo-Pacific basin.
3. The effects of periodically harvested closures – I am part of a multi-institution working group led by Dr. Stacy Jupiter of the Wildlife Conservation Society investigating the role of periodically harvested closures in conservation and management. My main role in this working group is as joint lead (with Dr. Rene Abesamis) on a project to integrate estimates of fisheries vulnerability of coral reef fish with behaviour, gear and management.