by John Davis | May 17, 2018
By Carlos A. Espinosa
The colors and warmth of the tropics make Central America unforgettable. These rich, vibrant coastal landscapes have inspired marine scientists, foreign visitors, and local inhabitants alike in their efforts to protect and conserve the most pristine marine zones throughout the region, on both the Pacific and Caribbean sides.
by John Davis | May 17, 2018
These recent articles or preprints on MPA-related science and policy are all free to access. Article: Davies, T. E. et al. “Assessing trade-offs in large marine protected areas.” PLOS ONE 13, e0195760 (2018) Finding: Although the ideal for MPAs is that they provide...
by John Davis | May 17, 2018
Study: Due to global warming, today’s MPAs could be uninhabitable to most of their current species by year 2100 A new study provides a grim forecast of what could happen to ecosystems and species inside current MPAs as a result of global warming. Assuming the global...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | May 8, 2018
“Most of us grew up in a world where data were rare and expensive to collect. In contrast, culturomics is firmly situated in the 21st-century world of abundant, ‘messy’ data, produced from the interactions between humans and the digital world.”...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | May 7, 2018
MEAM and you, an infographic