Jason Flower
I am a Project Researcher at the Environmental Market Solutions Lab (emLab) at the University of California, Santa Barbara working on marine spatial planning and coastal and fisheries management on islands in the Caribbean, Pacific, and Western Indian Ocean. I work with emLab’s partners at the Waitt Institute on their work with the Blue Prosperity Coalition. My work has helped guide marine spatial planning in Montserrat, Bermuda, and the Federated States of Micronesia, and inform fisheries management in Barbuda, Curacao, the Maldives, and Montserrat.
Sessions
Protection of the oceans needs to grow rapidly to reach the global target of 30% by 2030. I will demonstrate a reproducible workflow that uses the R coding language and freely available data and is being applied to small island nations deciding which ocean areas to protect