Prof. John W. McManus
RSMAS/MBF
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149
Telephone: 305.421.4814
Fax: 305.421.4910
jmcmanus@rsmas.miami.edu

I lead NCORE's efforts to develop programs such as the CARRUS Alliance (Comparative Analysis of Reef Resilience Under Stress), a global program of long-term, interdisciplinary research on coral reef systems focused on the development of Dynamic Decsion Support Systems to guide improved reef management. This includes the development of interdisciplinary (social, economic, biological and physical) multi-level agent-based scenario-testing models of coral reefs and adjacent human societies, in which I am directly involved. I have worked on benthos, fish and fisheries from the multivariate, ecological community perspective, and am developing ways to analyze ecological change in terms of dynamics in species hyperspace. In about 20 years working in Southeast Asia, I was involved in coastal management and research at the biophysical-socioeconomic interface.