SEMINAR: Dr. Elliott Norse - Tomorrow @ RSMAS (10:30 am) & Abess Center (2:00 pm)

[Neil Hammerschlag <NHammerschlag@rsmas.miami.edu>]

Friday November 11

RJ Dunlap Marine Conservation Program Presents:

Dr. Elliott Norse

Director of the Marine Conservation Institute

MAF Seminar Series:

 “Can deep-sea fisheries be sustainable?  

Synthesis of the biology, economics and policy”

Location: SLAB Seminar room, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science

Time:  10:30 am

Ecosystem Science & Policy Seminar Series:

“The evolution of marine protected areas”

Location: Ungar Building, Room 230 C, Abess Center for Ecosystem Science & Policy

Time: 2:00 pm

 

About: Dr. Norse has worked at the conservation science-policy interface for his entire career. After earning his B.S. in Biology from Brooklyn College, he studied the ecology of blue crabs in the Caribbean for his Ph.D. at University of Southern California and his Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Iowa. Starting in 1978 he worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency, White House Council on Environmental Quality (where he defined biological diversity as conservation’s overarching goal), Ecological Society of America, Wilderness Society and Ocean Conservancy before founding Marine Conservation Institute in 1996. Dr. Norse’s 150+ publications include 4 books. He is a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation and Adjunct Professor of Marine Conservation Science and Policy at Duke University Marine Laboratory, served as President of the Society for Conservation Biology’s Marine Section, and received the Nancy Foster Award for Habitat Conservation from the National Marine Fisheries Service.