Knowlton/Jackson Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Rashid Sumaila, Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries & School for Policy and Global Studies, University of British Columbia.

Dr. Sumaila will be presenting: Interdisciplinary collaborative ocean economics research with examples from the ‘ocean trenches’

Abstract: A crucial question still facing humanity is how to successfully manage theocean toensure longtermsustainability while meeting the needs of people from same. Here, I explore this question couched around three key issues, i.e., how we tackle global warming and climate change; how we implement public policies such as the provision of government subsidies to the fisheries sector; and how we manage thehighseas.

Additionally, CMBC Alumni Speaker: Dr. Sheila Walsh Reddy, Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives, Chief Strategy Office, The Nature Conservancy

Sheila is leading an initiative to transform how we measure conservation impact using remote sensing and artificial intelligence. She also supports strategy development by ensuring strategy teams have the science they need, especially sciences newer to conservation such as economics and other behavioral sciences.

Friday, January 11, 2019
3:00pm –5:00pm
Reception to follow

Robert Paine Scripps Forum for Science, Society and the Environment

Registration: https://cmbc-2019-sumaila.eventbrite.com

Inquiries call: 858-822-2790