[All-postdocs] Reminder: Steinbach Scholar Seminar this Thursday

[Margot Mcklveen]

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*H. Burr Steinbach Visiting Scholar Virtual Seminar*

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Sponsored by the WHOI Academic Programs Office

Thursday, August 5 at Noon

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://whoi-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYscOurqjgqH9X4tcY-mOQrDILq466zX8Zu 
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Dr. Stephanie Moore

Research Oceanographer, NOAA Fisheries

WHOI Steinbach Visiting Scholar


Harmful algal blooms, fisheries, and fishing communities on the U.S West 
Coast

Abstract: The ocean provides a range of tangible and intangible benefits 
to human communities, including the provision of food, economic benefits 
from tourism and fisheries, and a sense of place and cultural identity. 
Harmful algal blooms put these social-ecological connections at risk, 
with sharp consequences for people who depend on impacted resources. 
This talk will explore the effects of the unprecedented 2015 bloom of 
Pseudo-nitzschia on fisheries and fishing communities on the U.S. West 
Coast using a social-ecological systems framework. This approach reveals 
mechanisms that can amplify or dampen the societal impacts of HABs and 
the ability of human communities to respond to and recover from them. 
The results provide a foundation for preparing communities for future 
HABs, which are expected to worsen along the West Coast as a result of 
climate change.


Bio: Stephanie Moore obtained her PhD from the University of New South 
Wales, Australia, in 2005. She joined the NOAA Northwest Fisheries 
Science Center in 2017 where she currently works as a Research 
Oceanographer. Growing up in Australia and surrounded by water, Steph 
understood the intimate and inextricable connection between the oceans 
and human wellbeing. Just as the oceans can nourish and sustain, they 
can also harbor rising threats made worse by climate change. Stephanie’s 
research focuses on the complex and dynamic social and ecological 
interactions of harmful algal blooms in marine ecosystems. The use of 
robotic technologies is fundamental to her work to develop a mechanistic 
understanding of bloom formation, monitor blooms in near real-time, and 
inform societal response efforts now and into the future.

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