Emily Klein Email & Phone Number

As part of the Conservation Science team, I work with my colleagues to provide technical and strategic scientific support to Pew’s Environment and Strategy teams. This includes highlighting emerging and best available science, expanding networks of partners, and considering evidence and knowledge gaps during project exploration and strategic planning.

Greater Boston Area

There are several avenues of work I am pursuing at the Pardee Center. First, I am working to understand where and when complex and chaotic dynamics occur in coupled human-natural systems over space and time, how are they coupled and entangled within and across those systems, and the implications of these dynamics for theory and policy. We aim to leverage.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Managed team of BU researchers alongside partners with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary to strategize sustainable sand mining that considers ecosystem outcomes and other sectors on the water. The work also included using an ecosystem model to consider trade-offs and potential conflict, translating.

La Jolla & Petaluma CA

This work used ecosystem models to understand trade-offs between krill-dependent predators (penguins, seals, whales, and fish) and the international krill fishery in the Antarctic, and to explore how these will be altered by evolving fishing effort, climate change, and management action. In terms of management, we investigated how different approaches.

Princeton, NJ

Research at Princeton was part of a large, international collaboration to better understand human behavior and values among common pool resource users - focusing on fishermen. On this project, I conducted informal interviews in 11 fishing communities along the US west coast to better understand fishermen motivations for or against information sharing and.

Durham, New Hampshire

My doctoral research explored spatially-explicit long-term fisheries and ecosystem dynamics within the Gulf of Maine (specifically the Bay of Fundy) from the 1800s forward. For this work, I combined qualitative narratives and novel empirical dynamics modeling (EDM), techniques developed by George Sugihara at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, with.

Thesis title: "Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) as a case study for time series analysis and historical data."

Durham, NH

Assembled information and literature on the herring fishery from the past 150 years from various sources. Information was integrated into GIS maps of herring abundance and distribution over the past century. Developed contacts within the scientific and fishery community.

Whitehouse, Jamaica

Field research addressed the impact of mangrove loss on the fitness and survival of American redstarts (Setophaga ruticilla). Performed mist netting of forest birds, target netted and banded redstarts, re-sighted American redstarts and mapped territories on an often-daily basis. Photographed canopy cover for future analyses of mangrove and logwood habitat.

Kentucky

I worked for two projects while employed with the University of Kentucky: 1. Investigated river otter (Lutra canadensis) presence in western Kentucky via tracking surveys in various waterways. Performed laboratory preparation and maintenance.2. Explored the success of fire as a management tool for forest ecosystems by documenting soil type, leaf litter.

Volcanoes National Park

Performed field research for a study looking at the spread of avian disease on native Hawaiian bird species. Mist-netted, banded, and measured physical characteristics of forest birds, and carried out blood work in the field. Conducted extensive phenology studies of ohi’a (Metrosideros polymorhpa) trees. Observed behavior and used radio-telemetry to study.

Yellowstone National Park

Determined Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) presence via hair snare bait stations. Investigated evidence of snowshoe hare presence by performing pellet plot surveys. Used GPS systems on a daily basis to find hair snare stations in wilderness locations inaccessible by trail or road.

Brisbane, Australia

Designed and executed several group and independent research projects in both marine biology and terrestrial ecology which included measurements in the field and in the lab, collection of species from the field, manipulation in the lab, in addition to observations in the field.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Natural Resources & Earth Systems Science (Fisheries, Marine Ecology), 4.0

Activities and Societies: UNH President’s Commission on Inclusive Excellence (2012-2013) • University Graduate Council (2010-2013) • UNH.

Master Of Science - Ms, Natural Resources - Environmental Conservation, 4.0

Activities and Societies: • UNH Graduate Student Senate • UNH Graduate Women in Science • Stonewall Grads (UNH Graduate Student LGBTQ+.

Bsc, Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution, 3.5

Minor in Photography