Areas:
- Environmental History, Historical Marine Ecology, Marine Conservation
I am an interdisciplinary scholar engaged with ocean history, historical ecology, and marine conservation. My research integrates natural science, social science, and humanities to quantify and describe ecological change and human drivers over centuries and across large areas.
Research:
- Historical marine ecology
- Marine fisheries conservation
- Environmental history
Her research has spanned historical ecology, environmental history and marine conservation.
Based in the Department of History and School of Environmental Studies, our group is engaged in projects within the areas historical marine ecology, environmental history, and marine conservation. Collectively this work spans and integrates natural science, social science, and humanities, with primary approaches including archival and interview-based methods. Key areas of interest are quantifying and contextualizing long-term ecological changes to coastal seas and human perceptions of change, with most emphasis placed on work that has direct application to conservation and management. Ongoing projects are focused on the Caribbean, the Pacific Northwest, and coastal Maine.
She is deeply concerned with long-term human impacts on marine species and ecosystems, and in her research, she works to (1) assess and quantify changes in the distribution and abundance of marine species over century-long time scales and (2) determine links between social history and changing marine environments.
Subject areas:
- History and Environmental Studies
