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Details of Rick MacPherson
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PERSONAL DATA
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Gender
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Job title
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Director of Conservation Programs |
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Department
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Conservation Programs |
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417 Montgomery St., Suite 205
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ODINWESTPAC
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415-834-0900 x302 |
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415-834-0999 |
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http://www.coral.org |
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PROFESSIONAL DATA
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Degree
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MSci |
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Teaching/Education
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Natural Resource Management
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Operational Support (technical)
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Decision Making & Policy
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Technical Advice & Consulting
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Research Area(s)
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Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
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Policy, Law, Economics, Management
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Biological Oceanography, Marine Ecology
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Policy, Law, Economics, Management
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Research Activities
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Rick MacPherson coordinates all of CORAL’s conservation projects and the development and implementation of strategies and tools that increase the capacity of marine recreation providers, marine protected area managers, and local reef communities to work collaboratively towards coral reef conservation. Rick is particularly interested in the use of indirect indicators of ecosystem health that can serve as accurate proxies for direct biophysical monitoring. This interest has led to several funded projects that are now exploring the use and value of such indicators in assessing marine conservation effectiveness.
Recent projects exploring the role of marine tourism in conservation, sustainable financing strategies for marine protected area management, and community benefits derived from conservation have allowed Rick to investigate alternative paradigms of conservation such as community-based conservation, the effectiveness, affordability, and role of marine recreation standards as conservation tools, and planning, funding, implementing, and evaluating conservation initiatives from an ecosystem services perspective.
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Research Region
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Caribbean Basin, Pacific Ocean, Indo-Pacific
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Skills/Expertise
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Tropical Marine Ecology, Early Evolution of the Metazoans, Macroevolutionary Theory, Marine Protected Area Management, Informal Science Education and Pedagogy
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PUBLICATIONS (as reported by Rick MACPHERSON)
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| | MacPherson, R., Wilson, R. 2007 The Mesoamerican Barrier Reef: A case study in managing environmental impacts in the marine recreation sector, (In Press) 13pp. | | | Flumerfelt, S., MacPherson, R. 2006 Tourism Fees and Marine Protected Area Effectiveness: Narrowing a Financial Gap, (In Press) 26 pp. | | | MacPherson, R. 2005 The Ecology and Economy of Coral Reefs, Tulum +8 Conference Proceedings, p. 18. | | | MacPherson, R., et al, 1996 Benchmarks On the Way to Environmental Literacy K-12, Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth Publication 1996-24-3, p.213. | | | MacPherson, R., Strang, C. 2003 Keeping Ocean Science Afloat in Our Schools: Reflections on Sustainability, Current-The Journal of Marine Education, 19 (3) p.32-35. |
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