Postdoc Emily Klein Gives Invited Talk on Southern Ocean Management at Pew Charitable Trusts

Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, was recently invited by the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Protecting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean Campaign to give an organization-wide talk on her work on Southern Ocean management conducted over the past three years.

In this work, Klein and her collaborators at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center furthered scientific understanding and provided decision support for international management in the Southern Ocean. In Antarctica’s Scotia Sea and off the Antarctic Peninsula, krill support a wide variety of predators, as well as an international fishery, so it is critical that the best available science is used to make decisions for ecological conservation and sustainable use. The work Klein presented at Pew used an ecosystem model to explore how ocean warming, fishing, and alternative management strategies — including marine protected areas — may affect Antarctic krill, their predators, and the fishery in the Scotia Sea. The results advanced scientific knowledge and were directly used to meet international policy needs as they developed, thus linking cutting-edge science and on-the-ground management strategies.

Learn more about this research in a 2018 PLOS ONE study led by Klein.