by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Mar 24, 2021
Editor’s note: Climate change is the greatest threat to the health of marine ecosystems worldwide, and the COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to alter the world’s climate change trajectory, for better or for worse. Numerous, diverse relationships between the two...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Mar 24, 2021
New marine planning and management trainings added to Skimmer database More than 50 countries commit to protecting 30% of land and oceans by 2030 Japan and Russia take measures to reduce sale of IUU catch Ten largest seafood companies commit to eliminating IUU from...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Mar 24, 2021
Editor’s Note: From the Archives calls attention to past Skimmer/MEAM articles whose perspectives and insight remain relevant. As professionals in the marine conservation and management field, Skimmer readers are hyperaware of large scale and global changes to marine...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 13, 2020
It has been a long four years for those in the environmental field here in the US – four years filled with rampant attempts by the Trump administration to remove, weaken, or circumvent environmental protections; promotion of climate science denialism; and obstruction...
by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | Dec 13, 2020
In 2017, MEAM (now The Skimmer on Marine Ecosystems and Management) interviewed 17 social science and interdisciplinary researchers from around the world to learn how their work could improve marine conservation and management practice. We updated this coverage in our...
