Research focusing on institutions, people and tradeoffs when it comes to ocean policy has earned Patrick Christie, 91探花assistant professor of marine affairs and international studies, one of five Pew Fellowships in Marine Conservation awarded by the Pew Institute for Ocean Sciences. Each fellow will receive $150,000 to conduct a three-year conservation project.
Christie will be designing a network of marine preserves 鈥� with all-important and often ignored community input 鈥� to restore severely degraded ocean habitats in the Philippines. Working in collaboration with a non-government conservation and education foundation there, he will conduct a multi-stakeholder process to design and implement such a network.
A second just-named Pew fellow is Duke University’s David Hyrenbach, who is currently a visiting scientist at the 91探花School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. He’ll be evaluating the feasibility of establishing protected areas for highly mobile marine animals, such as birds and turtles, in the Mediterranean.