Marine Protected Area Monitoring and Management

Catalog description

An interdisciplinary course that addresses concepts, issues, and approaches relevant to marine protected areas (MPAs) and their impacts on marine ecosystems and coastal people. Course will address key topics on MPA design, implementation, management, monitoring, and evaluation. Attention will be given to sensitive marine ecosystems (e.g. coral reefs) and resource-dependent fishing and tourism communities. Using real world case studies, students will apply introduced concepts and quantitative approaches to questions on MPA monitoring and evaluating their impacts. Students will engage with the course material primarily through group discussions, problem sets, and lectures. Taught in Beaufort at Duke Marine Lab.