by Melissa Poe | Jul 30, 2020 | Clam Garden, Indigenous, Marine Management
Washington Sea Grant (WSG) recently highlighted some of the ways that the coronavirus pandemic is impacting research efforts in Washington state. The impacts are also felt by our social science teams, in particular as many of the activities in a social scientist’s...
by Melissa Poe | Apr 20, 2020 | Guest, Marine Management, Salish Sea, social-ecological systems, Uncategorized
Guest post written by Brandon McWilliams, WSG Science Communication Fellow The human dimension of ecosystem work is often limited to the image of researchers in waders taking samples, or examining data tables back in the lab. This view is flawed, though, as it ignores...
by Melissa Poe | Apr 16, 2019 | Fisheries, seafood, SfAA, subsistence
Every Spring, an active group of applied social scientists gathers for the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) meeting. The SfAA has a mighty cohort of salty researchers ––so mighty that there is now a Fisheries and Coastal Topical Interest Group, voluntarily led...
by Melissa Poe | Feb 25, 2019 | Human well-being, IEA, Marine Management, social indicators
Understanding human–sea interactions is crucial to developing equitable and sustainable management strategies. In recent years, resource managers and ecosystem scientists have sought to incorporate measures of socioeconomic conditions into their evaluation of coastal...
by Melissa Poe | Jan 2, 2019 | AFS, Meetings
Case studies in building resilient fishing communities, social science at the American Fisheries Society meeting Washington Sea Grant social scientist Melissa Poe and graduate fellow Lauren Drakopulos organized a symposium for the 2018 American Fisheries Society...
