Graduates

Since August 2001, 23 students received the Master of Marine Affairs degree. This brings the total number of SMA graduates since 1980 to 357. This year, student thesis topics have addressed environmental education (3), ports and transportation (4), fisheries and marine mammals (4), climate variability (1), wetlands, rivers, estuaries, MPAs (5), marine policy (3), environmental contamination (2) and business planning (1).

Table 1. SMA Masters Theses, 2001 - 2002 Academic Year*
Name	Title
Asplen, Lisa	Ecological Restoration in Theory and Practice: The Discourse of Salmon Habitat Policy in the Cedar River
Alvarado, Angelita	The Role of Environmental Education in Marine Protected Areas in Bohol and Negros, Philippines: A Freirean Assessment
Bag, Jang-Ho (James)	Considerations for Compensating Environmental Damage by Oil Spills In Korea: A Review of the International and USA's Oil Pollution Compensation System
Barger, Cindy	Evaluating Special Area Management Plans: Application of the Corps Watershed Study Success Criteria to the Anchorage Wetlands Management Plan
Davis, John	Business Plan for MARE, a Nonprofit Corporation
Director, Rustin	The Spiny Dogfish Fishery of Puget Sound and the Pacific Northwest Coast: Management Options and Recommendations
Eckstein, Amy	Communicating Marine Environmental Issues to Children: A Ranger Rick Children's Nature Magazine Example
Engoltz, Tali	Potential Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Water Quality in South Puget Sound: A Management Perspective
Ferriss, Bridget	Environmental Indicators for Estuaries: Perceptions of Practitioners in Coastal Estuaries
Havard, Chris	A Feasibility Study for Processing Contaminated Marine Sediment in Portland Cement Kilns
Krewson, Jennifer	A Vision for U.S. Ocean Policy in the 21st Century
Larese, Jason	Ocean Carbon Sequestration and U.S. Energy Policy
Lee, Dong Hyon	Developing Marketing Strategy for the Port of Busan
Lee, Kyung-Koo	Issues and Options in Designing ITQ Programs in Korea
Matthews, Evan	Evaluating the International Regime for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments
MacWilliams, Sarah	Coastal Estuary Management in the Pacific Northwest: Institutions and Community Involvement in Dredging and Water Quality Issues
Mendez, Shelby	An Evaluation of the Role of the Hanford Natural Resource Trustees Council in Protecting and Enhancing the Natural Resources of the Hanford Nuclear Weapons Site and Columbia River
Murphy, Jennifer	Sound Stewardship and National Security: A Case Study of Coastal Resources Management in the Philippines
Nanda, Sunita	Urban Coastlines of Washington State: Considering Endangered Fish in Project Design and Mitigation
Rusin, Jeremy	Management of the Western Alaska Steller Sea Lion, Eumetopias jobatus, Under the Endangered Species Act: Evolution of Interagency Consultation and Impacts on Alaska Ground Fisheries
Smukler, Katherine	Laying Groundwork in the Nearshore to Achieve a Scientifically-based Regions System of Marine Protected Areas in the Northwest Straits (WA)
Taso, Chih-Fan	Process Evaluation of Marine Environmental Education in the San Juan Islands
Wood, Kevin	Antarctic Shipping and the Marine Environment: the Uncertain Fate of the Madrid Protocol on Environmental Protection at Sea

* See Appendix A for a compilation of thesis abstracts and committee members.

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