COASTAL MARINE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT Faculty Advisor: Chris Costello (1st-yrs) & Hunter Lenihan (2-yrs) Specialization Definition The Coastal Marine Resources Management specialization (CMRM) trains MESM students to address interdisciplinary questions related to marine coastal ecosystems. Coastal marine ecosystems provide a plethora of essential goods and services, including fisheries, navigation space, geochemical products and recycling, disposal space for anthropogenic wastes, and recreation. Managing these goods and services requires an understanding of natural and social sciences, economics, decision-making, behavior, law and institutions, and ethics. Worldwide, societies are faced with the serious challenge of developing and implementing new strategies for managing at-risk coastal resources and communities that rely on them. CMRM students will be trained to meet this challenge through an interdisciplinary education in marine ecology, oceanography, marine policy and law, economics, and various forms of quantitative modeling. Students from the CMRM specialization will find employment in both the public (federal agencies; state and local governments; universities) and private (consulting firms; industry) sectors.
The University of California, Santa Barbara provides a unique academic setting for the CMRM specialization. Major breakthroughs in basic and applied marine science and related disciplines in policy, economics and sociology have been made by researchers from the Bren School, the Departments of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology (EEMB), Environmental Science (ES), Geology (GEOL), and Geography (GEOG), and the Marine Science Institute (MSI). Marine-related research by UCSB biologists, engineers, economists, anthropologists, and political scientists is conducted both locally in the Santa Barbara Channel and worldwide in a diversity of marine ecosystems including coral reefs, deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and polar seas. CMRM students will be encouraged to interact with faculty, students, and staff from other departments and programs on campus that conduct coastal marine science and management.
Course Work MESM students have a wide variety of backgrounds, interests, and educational goals. Each CMRM student will tailor an individualized Program of Study (POS) with help from the CMRM specialization leader and other Bren faculty. CMRM students should take the following courses:
Understanding the complex nature of coastal marine ecological processes as well as most policy and economic issues, requires knowledge of oceanographic processes. There is a rich supply of oceanography curriculum in other departments. The Bren School has deliberately avoided developing courses similar to those in other departments on campus and has focused on creating courses that will enhance the overall University curriculum. It is expected that CMRM students will participate in course offerings across the campus.
The full menu of marine-focused offerings in other departments can be found at the following web sites: http://www.marinegp.ucsb.edu/courses/undergraduate/undergraduate.php http://www.marinegp.ucsb.edu/courses/graduate/graduate.php CMRM students are encouraged to enhance their marketability by taking a course in modeling, such as:
The following variable topic courses may also provide curriculum opportunities of value for CMRM students:
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Sample Programs of Study
Example I Example II
| • Applied Marine Ecology | • Applied Marine Ecology |
| • Natural Resource Economics and Policy | • Coastal Marine Policy |
| • Applied Population Ecology | • Environmental Policy Analysis |
| • Coastal Marine Ecoystem Processes | • Cost Benefit Analysis and Non Market Valuation |
| • Biological Oceanography | • Introduction to Physical Oceanography |
| • Conservation Planning | • Coastal Marine Ecosystem Processes |
| • Modeling Environmental and Ecological Change | • Seminar in Marine Resources Management |
| • Restoration Ecology | • Advanced Topics in Environmental Science |
Example III Example IV
• Applied Marine Ecology |
• Applied Marine Ecology |
• Chemical Oceanography |
• Natural Resource Economics and Policy |
• Coastal Marine Ecosystem Processes |
• Environmental Negotiation |
• Coastal Marine Policy |
• Governance for Sustainable Development |
| • Microbial Processes in the Environment | • Remote Sensing of the Oceans |
| • Fate and Transport of Pollutants | • Biology and Geology of Coral Reefs |
| • Watershed Analysis | • Coastal Marine Ecosystem Processes |
| • Environmental Modeling | • Coastal Marine Policy |
• GIS |
• Advanced Topics in Environmental Law |
Career Opportunities
| Public Agencies | Private Companies | Non-Governmental Organizations |
International UNEP Federal National Marine Fisheries Service NOAA/National Marine Sanctuaries National Park Service US Fish and Wildlife Sea Grant Regional Fishery Councils State Coastal Commissions, EPAs, Transportation Depts, Fish and Game, Regional Water Quality Control Boards, State Conservancies, Public Utilities County and Local Planning and Development Departments |
Environmental consulting firms specializing in marine impact assessment, risk assessment, regional assessment, site conservation and restoration planning, watershed use planning Coastal Developers Oil and Gas Companies Energy Companies Timber companies |
The Nature Conservancy World Wildlife Fund International Coral Reef Conservation National Resource Defense Council Defenders of Wildlife Center for Marine Conservation Industry-Based Fishery Councils Greenpeace |
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