Almost no social and behavioral scientists working at NOAA, compared to the many physical and biological scientists, and even economists (Talk by Danika Kleiber)

With full acknowledgement that I’m currently wearing a fleece from a predecessor school: this is what happens when you rename the earth sciences (i.e. petroleum engineering & co) school the sustainability school

Just in! FCP director Eric Palkovacs & PhD student Brook recently received award funds from the @UCSC Center for Coastal Climate Resilience to research restoring Chinook salmon to the Klamath River! The research will connect genetic science & traditional knowledge 🎣

Our new open-access Global Change Biology paper led by Joshua G. Smith shows that California’s marine protected areas (MPAs) failed to confer resilience to the impacts of the world's largest marine heatwave on community structure across multiple habitats (1/5): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Unbelievably grim scene from my old stomping grounds on Maui.

Big thanks to a terrific team for their contributions and patience in supporting this pandemic adjacent descent into the world of ecological modeling and big ocean data NOAA Fisheries Fisheries @ UCSC Hopkins Marine Station Stanford University Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) San Diego State University UC Davis

The whole thing has become a human tragedy and is the fault of all of us. And something I learn is that you don’t fix a problem by pointing fingers at others. If you and your country use inequality to increase profits, you are guilty,and that includes me. franciscoblaha.info/blog/2023/10/1…

✨ NEW & #OpenAccess | Catch as catch can: Markets, availability, and fishery closures drive distinct responses among the U.S. West Coast Coastal Pelagic Species fleet segments buff.ly/45ThZNs 🎣 by Felipe Javier Quezada UC Santa Cruz NOAA Fisheries et al.

Dynamic human, oceanographic, and ecological factors mediate transboundary fishery overlap across the Pacific high seas onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fa…

Absolutely incredible to see the Klamath River revealing itself at former Lake Copco and Iron Gate Reservoir sites earlier today

🎣Frawley et al show that self-governance shapes vulnerability and adaptive response in small-scale #fisheries. 🌍Read more about this exciting research #OpenAccess in GEC: doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe…

Thankful to the University of Maine communications staff for putting together this plain language summary of our recent Global Environmental Change paper, touching upon some of the similarities between fisheries in Northwest Mexico and those in my home system and state. umaine.edu/news/blog/2024…

I just returned from almost a week working on a trawler in the Guinea-Bissau EEZ. It was a deeply humbling experience and one of the most rewarding fishing trips I have ever had from a human perspective. franciscoblaha.info/blog/2024/6/9/…