15 Oct
Anne Guerry
Lead Scientist, Marine Initiative, Natural Capital Project
The Marine Initiative of the Natural Capital Project: Connecting the Dots for Marine Spatial Planning
Video (QuickTime)
Abstract
Marine ecosystems produce a wide range of ecosystem services, including the provision of seafood from natural populations, beautiful places for tourism and recreation, shoreline protection, climate regulation, and cultural benefits. Ensuring the sustainability of the delivery of this broad suite of ecosystem services is central to the vision of ecosystem-based management (EBM) of coastal and marine systems. Making ecosystem services a useful concept to EBM on the ground and in the water requires basic research on how services vary across a region and how they might be affected by alternative management schemes. I will introduce InVEST—an ecosystem services scenario assessment tool—that is being used around the globe to inform decision-making in terrestrial systems. I will then discuss the development of a similar tool for marine and coastal systems. In the new tool, we focus on food from fisheries and aquaculture, coastal protection, energy generation, and recreation and examine the ways in which the provision of these services is likely to change under different scenarios of marine and coastal use.
Bio
Anne Guerry is the Lead Scientist of the Marine Initiative of the Natural Capital Project, a joint venture among The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and The Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Prior to joining “NatCap,” she was a National Research Council post-doctoral research associate at the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Seattle. She received her PhD in Zoology from Oregon State University, an MS in Wildlife Ecology from the University of Maine, and a BA in Environmental Studies and English from Yale University.
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