Faculty Accomplishment, 2002-2003

Marc J. Hershman, Professor

Professor Hershman has for the past two years been a member of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, a group appointed by the Congress and the President. He is the commission's only academic member from the field of marine affairs, and he has been especially active in the ocean and coastal governance area of the commission's work. His work has been assisted by SMA students and faculty through SMA's Project on Ocean Governance, established two years ago. Prof. Hershman has also launched a research and education project on the linkages between natural science, policy and law in the management of the living marine resources of the North Pacific, funded by NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle. This funding supported the hiring of Research Associate Beth Bryant, a graduate of both SMA and the UW School of Law. Prof. Hershman participated along with several other UW faculty members and students in the Inha University (Incheon, South Korea) "Pentaport" seminar, April 2003, where he and MMA Candidate Katie Chamberlin presented the paper "Port City Change and Growth: Examples from the Pacific Northwest". Prof. Hershman stepped down after nearly a decade as SMA's director in July 2003. One of his last acts as director was to lead the SMA faculty through the development of a non-thesis option for completing the MMA program.

A toast to Prof. Marc Hershman (left) and his term as Director, led by Prof. Tom Leschine at the SMA year-end celebration at Prof. Vlad Kaczynski's house.

Thomas M. Leschine, Professor and Director

Professor Leschine became the 5th Director of the School of Marine Affairs in July 2003. He stepped down as Director of the Public Policy Center of Expertise for CRESP, a multi-university research consortium dedicated to research on the management of long-lived hazards in the Department of Energy complex. His work with PNCERS, the NOAA-funded Pacific Northwest Coastal Ecosystems Regional Study, culminated in the paper "Challenges and Strategies for Better Use of Scientific Information in the Management of Coastal Estuaries", co-authored with four recent SMA graduates and two other researchers affiliated with SMA, and forthcoming in Estuaries. His work on a multi-investigator STAR grant from EPA's Watersheds Program centered on the sampling of attitudes on restoration in King County's Cedar River watershed, in collaboration with SMA graduate Melissa Montgomery and others. He was at work on several manuscripts on the project's results at year's end. One, "Multi-scale Prioritization of Riparian Habitats for Restoration and Preservation", primary author a Ph.D. student from SAFS, is to appear in Environmental Management. The paper "Beliefs, Values and Technical Assessment in Environmental Management: Contaminated Sediments in Puget Sound, co-authored with an SMA graduate and a student from UW's Quantitative Ecology Program, appeared in Coastal Management.

Edward L. Miles, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Marine Studies and Public Affairs

This year was marked by the extraordinary accomplishment of Professor Miles' election to the National Academy of Sciences. His work of the past eight years as head of the University's Climate Impacts Group (CIG), a research group dedicated to integrated assessment of impacts and responses to climate change in the Pacific Northwest, was instrumental in his selection for this high honor. In addition, he and colleagues from academic institutions in both the U.S. and Europe saw publication of a major book long in preparation. Environmental Regime Effectiveness: Confronting Theory with Evidence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) features a model approach for evaluating international environmental regime effectiveness followed by a series of case study evaluations. Prof. Miles traveled extensively during the year and lectured widely. Among presentations of note were "Policy Design Challenges for Climate Change at the Regional Level: Salmonids and the Coastal Zone in the Pacific Northwest," presented as part of the Curtis and Edith Munson Distinguished Lecture Series at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Management, and "How Environmental Problems are Defined and 'Solved' in Science vs. Policy Process: What Can We Expect of the Biodiversity Convention?" presented as the keynote address at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation's December 2002 Conference on Marine Biodiversity in the Present: Known, Unknown, and Unknowable.

Prof. Edward Miles, SMA, surrounded by his peers during the Law of the Sea Institute Conference on Multilateralism and International Ocean-Resources Law, University of California, Berkeley, February 21, 2003

Marc L. Miller, Professor

Two conference proceedings whose lead editor was Professor Marc Miller were published during AY 2002-2003, Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Coastal and Marine Tourism: Balancing Tourism and Conservation and Proceedings of the 1998 Pacific Island Gamefish Symposium: Facing the Challenges of Resource Conservation, Sustainable Development, and the Sportfishing Ethic. He also co-authored with SMA graduate Nina Hadley the "Tourism and Coastal Development" section of the soon-to-appear Encyclopedia of Coastal Science. He contributed "Utilization of Social Science in Federal Management of U.S. Marine Fisheries: Strong Commitment to Research Will Improve Management Outcomes" to the Proceedings of the Pew Ocean Commission Workshop on Marine Fishery Management, and "Comments on the Human Dimensions of Marine Fishery and Ecosystem Management in the North Pacific" to a workshop of the National Research Council for A Science Plan for the North Pacific Research Board, held in Anchorage in March 2003. Prof. Miller was the Distinguished Speaker in the 2002 Distinguished Conservation Scholars Public Lecture Series, Integrated Marine Conservation Program at Duke Marine Laboratory, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences; Special University Lecturer at Silliman University in the Philippines on the subject of "Coastal Recreation and Tourism Management and Development"; and Distinguished Speaker in the Program in Marine Policy at the University of Delaware in May 2003, where he spoke on "Tourism, Romanticism and the Social History of the Beach".

David L. Fluharty, Associate Professor

Professor Fluharty stepped down this past July after nine years service (the maximum permitted) as a member of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. Prof. Fluharty contributed significantly to the Council's ability to bring an ecosystem perspective to fisheries management in the North Pacific. He intends to continue to analyze fishery policy development and implementation in the North Pacific and elsewhere. Prof. Fluharty's research activity remains focused on the human dimensions of climate change through the Climate Impacts Group. He is completing work on a four-year study of the historical and institutional roots of habitat change in the Cedar River watershed and how they affect restoration of salmonids. In the spring of 2003, he took the SMA lead to develop a National Science Foundation Workshop in conjunction with colleagues at Inha University, Korea. This initiative is intended to develop into a broader study of a new concept for regional port analysis and comparative study of the Ports of the Puget Sound region and Incheon Port. Prof. Fluharty also continues his work on implementation of principles of ecosystem management in marine environmental management. He presented "Implementing Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management" at the Alaska Oceans and Watersheds Conference in July 2002 and gave the keynote address on "Ecosystem-Based Watershed Management" at EPA Region 10's Watershed Symposium held in Seattle (September 2002). Prof. Fluharty is a member of the "Practical Design of MPAs " Working Group at the National Center for Ecosystem Analysis and Synthesis [NCEAS] and is an advisor to the Ecosystem Management Working Group as well.

Daniel D. Huppert, Associate Professor

Professor Huppert was on sabbatical leave for most of the 2002-2003 academic year. In collaboration with Prof. Leschine, he worked to complete research on the PNCERS project. As part of this effort he submitted two co-authored papers. "Willingness to Pay for Local Coho Salmon Enhancement in Coastal Communities" was done with collaborators Kathleen Bell of the University of Maine and Rebecca Johnson of Oregon State University, and is to appear in Marine Resource Economics. He also led a larger group of co-investigators in production of the synthesis paper "Connections between Human Communities and Estuaries in the Pacific Northwest", soon to appear in Estuaries. Other work on two NOAA Fisheries funded projects, "Bioeconomic Models of the Pacific Whiting Fishery to Focus on Mean-Variance Tradeoffs in Harvest Strategies" and "Using Behavioral Models to Assess Alternative Management Approaches for Reducing Local Ecological Impact of Alaska Pollock and Cod Fisheries", the latter with co-investigator Prof. David Layton of the UW Evans School of Public Affairs, neared completion during this period. The second project led to the convening of the "Workshop on Spatial Fishing Models", which brought 15 economists and fishery biologists together at the UW Center for Urban Horticulture in June 2003. Two new projects, "Columbia River Initiative Economic Analysis" and "The Study of Supply Effects on Sablefish Market Price" were funded.

Vlad M. Kaczynski, Associate Professor

Professor Kaczynski continues to be very active in international work. He obtained funding from USAID for the Joint University of Washington - University of Port Elizabeth (South Africa) Partnership Project on Establishment of the Marine Studies and Outreach Programs in UPE, Republic of South Africa. Two SMA students will be spending Autumn Quarter 2003 in South Africa on this project, and SMA faculty members Marc Miller and Patrick Christie will be conducting short courses at UPE in late summer, 2003. An additional grant from NOAA's Office of Global Programs is supporting work on "Capacity Building and Adaptation of Coastal Communities to Climate and Marine Environmental Conditions in the Republic of South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique". A project funded by the MacArthur Foundation, "Effects of Population Growth and Consumption Patterns on Marine Fisheries in the Zhoushan Province, PRC" conducted with the University of Peking (Beijing) and Ningbo University, ended, with submission to Ambio (a Journal of the Human Environment) of an article on the project's results. An edited book (with Prof. David Fluharty) on Impacts of Population and Markets on the Sustainability of the Ocean and Coastal Resources of the Pacific Rim is nearing completion, with planned submission of the manuscript in Fall 2003 to the University of Washington Press.

Patrick J. Christie, Assistant Professor

Professor Patrick Christie continues to be very active in work on community-based marine protected areas, particularly in the Philippines and Indonesia. His co-authored paper (with Alan White and E. Deguit), "Starting point or solution? Community-based marine protected areas in the Philippines", was published in the Journal of Environmental Management. Another co-authored book chapter whose production he led, "The Challenges and Rewards of Community-Based Coastal Resources Management: San Salvador Island, Philippines" appeared in the edited volume Contested Nature: Power, Protected Areas and the Dispossessed�Promoting International Biodiversity Conservation with Social Justice in the 21st Century (SUNY Press, Albany). He completed four other manuscripts during the past year, including "MPAs as biological successes and social failures in Southeast Asia," Proceedings of the Aquatic Protected Areas as Fishery Management Tools Symposium, American Fisheries Society. He is the principal investigator of the Integrated Coastal Management Sustainability Research Project, supported by the National Science Foundation and Packard Foundation. A paper co-authored with Indonesian researchers has recently been published in an Indonesian journal. A major effort of Prof. Christie in teaching led to the launching of a new 400-level course entitled "Root causes of environmental degradation in the tropics" joint listed SMA, JSIS and PoE. This course was instrumental in the collaboration between SMA and UW's Jackson School of International Studies that has led to Prof. Christie's joint appointment to the faculty of both units in 2002.

Terrie Klinger, Assistant Professor

Professor Terrie Klinger currently has a number of funded research projects that deal with issues of biodiversity and conservation of intertidal marine organisms in Washington's San Juan Archipelago, and the creation of marine protected areas there. The project Biological Invasion of Marine Reserves by Aquatic Nuisance Species was funded through a special competition conducted by the National Sea Grant College Program. She has also obtained funding from UW's Royalty Research Fund for the study Detecting Variability in Inertial Temperature and Thermal Stress in Washington State. Other funding comes from Washington State and NOAA's Office of Response and Restoration. She authored the chapter, "Biosafety approaches to transgenic crop plant gene flow" for the Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science. Other co-authored papers appeared in Marine Ecology Progress Series and in the Journal of Phycology. She contributed the paper "Patterns of Larval Settlement are not Predictable from Coarse Measures of Surface Circulation" to the 2003 Puget Sound Research Conference, to appear in the conference proceedings. In addition to teaching marine science courses at SMA, Prof. Klinger teaches in the COFS undergraduate Honors Program in Marine Biology. She was nominated for the UW Outstanding Teaching Award, 2002-2003.

Beth Bryant, Research Associate

Research Associate Beth Bryant is in a new role at SMA this year�that of faculty member (she graduated from SMA's masters program in 1994 and completed a law degree at UW in 1999). Funding for her position as researcher and lecturer comes from a cooperative agreement with NOAA Fisheries (see discussion under Prof. Marc Hershman above.) In addition to guiding two students who are working with NMFS scientists in Seattle and Juneau to produce legally compliant NEPA documents, she and Prof. Hershman have developed a new course entitled "Introduction to Environmental Law." This course, to be offered Autumn Quarter 2003, will prepare students to address issues arising at the interface of science and law, with emphasis on living marine resource management. She has also recently completed a first draft of a working paper entitled "The Role of Fishery Scientists in the NMFS Litigation Crisis: A Literature Review and Proposals for Future Research."

Warren S. Wooster, Professor Emeritus

Professor Wooster, who was the founding chairman 12 years ago of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), continued his work with historian Sara Tjossem to develop a history of PICES. He has obtained a grant from the National Science Foundation to support this work. PICES is an intergovernmental organization whose members are Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States, and the discussions that led to its formation began at the Institute for Marine Studies, predecessor organization to SMA, in 1978. PICES 12th Annual Meeting is to be held in Seoul this coming October, and Dr. Tjossem's history is expected to be completed by the end of 2003.

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