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Gill, David

David H. Smith Post-doctoral Fellow, Conservation International/George Mason University

dgill@conservation.org

410-919-4810

David’s research focuses on identifying linkages between marine protected area (MPA) governance, human well-being, and ecosystem health. The SESYNC Pursuit with which he is affiliated, Solving the Mystery of MPA Performance, brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers and data from MPAs from around the world to identify key trends between MPAs and their social and ecological impacts. This work, spearheaded by the World Wildlife Fund, aims to inform marine conservation policy and strengthen a culture of evaluation in the conservation sector.

David recently completed his PhD titled “The economic value of reef fishes to the fishing and dive tourism industries in the Caribbean.” This research was part of the Future of Reefs (FORCE) project, which involved an international team of researchers from over 20 institutions in the Caribbean, Europe, USA, and Australia. David worked within the social science team, gathering data on the dependency of Caribbean coastal communities on coral reef resources and the constraints to effective reef management. David completed his MSc in Natural Resource Management at the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), University of the West Indies in Barbados and BSc at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

David is also a joint SESYNC/Luc Hoffmann Institute post-doctoral fellow.

CV: 

David Gill CV.pdf

Associated Projects: 

Evaluating relationships among human health & welfare, ecological condition & natural resource governance

Solving the Mystery of Marine Protected Area (MPA) Performance

Resources
Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus	Sep 19, 2018 Article published in Ecology and Society.
Making the most of data-poor fisheries: Low cost mapping of small island fisheries to inform policy	Nov 10, 2017 Article published in Marine Policy.
A novel framework for analyzing conservation impacts: Evaluation, theory, and marine protected areas	Jul 18, 2017 Article published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
An appeal for a code of conduct for marine conservation	May 15, 2017 Article published in Marine Policy.
Marine Socio-Environmental Covariates: queryable global layers of environmental and anthropogenic variables for marine ecosystem studies	Apr 24, 2017 Article published in Ecology.
Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally	Mar 22, 2017 Article published in Nature as part of the Solving the Mystery of Marine Protected Area (MPA) Performance Project.
Calculate Fetch and Wave Energy	Jan 15, 2017 R package to calculate fetch length and wave energy
Recreational diver preferences for reef fish attributes: Economic implications of future change	Jan 28, 2015 Article published in Ecological Economics.

Research Interest: 

My research interests are in marine resource management, particularly focusing on areas such as marine protected areas, resource economics, small-scale (reef) fisheries and coral reef ecology.