education and training Ph.D. in Marine Science, University of South Florida , College of Marine Science, The Influence of Disturbance and Management on Coral Reef Community Structure in Belize 1996 - 2001
investigator on Healthy Reefs for Healthy People awarded by The Summit Foundation Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative 2016 awarded by The Oak Hill Fund MAR Fund: Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative (#504783) awarded by MAR Fund
selected publications article Broadly defining "working lands". Science. 363:1046-1047. 2020 Development of a reef fish biological condition gradient model with quantitative decision rules for the protection and restoration of coral reef ecosystems. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 159:111387. 2020 Three decades of heat stress exposure in Caribbean coral reefs: a new regional delineation to enhance conservation. Scientific Reports. 9:11013. 2020 An update of the Worldwide Integrated Assessment (WIA) on systemic insecticides. Part 2: impacts on organisms and ecosystems. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2017 Establishment of marine protected areas alone does not restore coral reef communities in Belize. Marine Ecology - Progress Series. 563:65-79. 2017 Rapidly increasing macroalgal cover not related to herbivorous fishes on Mesoamerican reefs. PeerJ. 4:e2084. 2016 Invasive lionfish preying on critically endangered reef fish - Springer. Coral Reefs. 34:803-806. 2015 How much time can herbivore protection buy for coral reefs under realistic regimes of hurricanes and coral bleaching?. Global Change Biology. 17:2033-2048. 2011 Century-scale records of coral growth rates indicate that local stressors reduce coral thermal tolerance threshold. Global Change Biology. 16:1247-1257. 2010 chapter Collaborative, adaptive management of the Mesoamerican Reef. 201-220. 2017
