Press Releases & News Coverage

• Coverage of Froehlich et al. (2021). Securing a sustainable future for US seafood in the wake of a global crisis. Marine Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104328

  • UCSB press release: Seafood strategies - Researchers offer approaches for the sustainable expansion of the U.S. seafood industry.

• Coverage of Lester, et al. (2020). Caribbean reefs of the Anthropocene: variance in ecosystem metrics indicate bright spots on coral depauperate reefs. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15253

  • FSU press release: Bright spots could be key to securing the future of declining coral reefs.

  • Radio story

  • Sarah's post on FSU's College of Social Sciences and Public Policy blog: Finding bright spots of hope for Caribbean coral reefs.

• Coverage of Gentry et al. (2019). Temporal patterns of adoption of mariculture innovation globally. Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0395-y

  • FSU press release: The makeup of mariculture: FSU researchers examine global trends in seafood farming.

  • Behind the Paper blog: A sustainability transition in global food systems? Trajectories of marine aquaculture development.

• Coverage of McHenry et al. (2019). Projecting marine species range shifts from only temperature can mask climate vulnerability. Global Change Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14828

  • FSU press release: FSU researchers: Multifactor models reveal worse picture of climate change impact on marine life.

  • Radio story

• Coverage of Siegel et al. (2019) Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2365

  • UC Berkeley press release: How coral bleaching threatens Caribbean communities.

• Coverage of Thomas et al. (2019) The ecological and economic potential for offshore mariculture in the Caribbean. Nature Sustainability. 2: 62-70

  • UCSB press release: Fish Farmers of the Caribbean.

  • FSU’s College of Social Sciences and Public Policy news post: Researchers see wealth of potential for aquaculture in the Caribbean.

• Coverage of Lester et. al. (2018) Marine spatial planning makes room for offshore aquaculture in crowded coastal waters. Nature Communications. 9: 945:

  • FSU press release: Advanced spatial planning models could promise new era of sustainable ocean development.

  • Oceans Deeply: Report: Offshore fish farms could thrive in California.

  • Sarah's post on FSU's College of Social Sciences and Public Policy blog: Sustainable ocean development: It's all about location, location, location.

  • Sarah's related opinion piece in PNAS: Offshore aquaculture in the United States: Untapped potential in need of smart policy.

• The Lester Lab in collaboration with the Rassweiler Lab (Biological Sciences, FSU) is pleased to announce funding from the National Academy of Sciences Gulf Research Program to develop an integrated monitoring and assessment framework for evaluating the recovery of important ecosystem services in Florida's seagrass ecosystems following restoration.

  • See coverage from the NASEM Gulf Research Program press release for more details.

• FSU press release about Gill et. al. (2017) Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally. Nature. 543: 665-669: Inadequate resources diminish benefits of marine protected areas

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