Our research increases understanding of human impacts and informs conservation decisions under four main themes: sustainable food production (particularly seafood), conservation planning, land-sea interactions, and achieving conservation targets. Our work is largely centered on how we can best conserve the world’s oceans while considering the needs of the growing human population.

Publications, code and media

Click on projects below to find links to publications, code/data and media coverage.

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I strongly believe in open, reproducible science. I strive to make all data and code from our projects publicly available, where possible. You can find all available materials hosted on github and linked below.

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Publications, code and media

Multiple-use protected areas are critical to equitable and effective conservation

Biological life history and farming scenarios of marine aquaculture help reduce wild marine fishing pressure

Integrated watershed management solutions for healthy coastal ecosystems and people

Sedimentation sifted out of pollution priorities

Feed drives land-sea overlap of the global cumulative environmental pressure of farmed chicken and salmon

The environmental footprint of global food production

Rights and representation support justice across aquatic food systems

Global fishing between jurisdictions with unequal fisheries management

Demystifying ecological connectivity for actional spatial conservation planning

The impact of excessive protein consumption on human wastewater nitrogen loading of US waters

Mapping the spatial distribution of global mariculture production

Assessing the status of existing and tentative marine World Heritage areas reveals opportunities to better achieve World Heritage convention goals

Global rarity of intact coastal regions

Identifying management opportunities to combat climate, land, and marine threats across less climate exposed coral reefs

Predicted protected area downsizing impedes conservation progress across terrestrial ecoregions in the tropics and subtropics

Multinational coordination required for conservation of over 90% of marine species

Global forest restoration opportunities to foster coral reef conservation

An informed thought experiment exploring the potential for a paradigm shift in aquatic food production

Time to rethink tropic levels in aquaculture policy

Scheduling incremental actions to build a comprehensive national protected area network for Papua New Guinea

Integrating life cycle and impact assessments to map food’s cumulative environmental footprint

To achieve big wins for terrestrial conservation, prioritize protection of ecoregions clostest to meeting targets

Evidence-based guidelines for prioritizing investments to meet international conservation objectives

Operationalizing ecological connectivity in spatial conservation planning with Marxan Connect

Putting all foods on the same table: Achieving sustainable food systems requires full accounting

Quantifying biases in marine protected area placement relative to abatable threats

Metrics for evaluating representation target achievement in protected area networks

The location and protection status of Earth’s diminishing marine wilderness

Bigger or better: The relative benefits of protected area network expansion and enforcement for the conservation of an exploited species

Herbivore community determines the magnitude and mechanism of nutrient effects on subtropical and tropical seagrasses

Methods for calculating Protection Equality for conservation planning

The emergent role of small-bodied herbivores in pre-empting phase shifts on degraded coral reefs

Equitable representation of ecoregions is slowly improving despite strategic planning shortfalls

The resilience of reef invertebrate biodiversity to coral mortality