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John, who is co-advised by Ellen Pikitch and Anthony Dvarskas, blends a finance and economics background with marine science and conservation, with a particular focus on the economics and financing of marine protected areas. He uses both remote and case study-based research toward developing a replicable tool to analyze financial risk and potential alternative strategies for marine protected areas, the majority of which have insufficient funds to be effectively managed and enforced. He is also working on a project assessing marine protected areas in China and evaluating other ecosystem services such as shellfish abundance in Long Island Sound.

Congratulations, Dr. Sara Cernadas-Martin, on the successful defense of her dissertation, entitled: Multidisciplinary ecological characterization of summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) in Shinnecock Bay, New York. Read the dissertation here.

Read the Marine Policy paper entitled, "Categorizing global MPAs: A cluster analysis approach" From the Abstract: Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a widely used and flexible policy tool to help preserve marine biodiversity. They range in size and governance complexity from small communally managed MPAs, to massive MPAs on the High Seas managed by multinational organizations. As of August 2018, the Atlas of Marine Protection (MPAtlas.org) had catalogued information on over 12,000 Marine Protected Areas. We analyzed this global database to determine groups of MPAs whose characteristics best distinguished the diversity of MPA attributes globally, based upon our comprehensive sample. Read the article here.

-by John Bohorquez, Anthony Dvarskas, and Ellen Pikitch Read the full article in Frontiers in Marine Science here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00045/full