Research is a SeaTrust Institute core activity. From climate change to characteristics and habitats of marine fauna, to indigenous knowledge and tourism, our projects engage interdisciplinary teams in exploring complex environmental issues.
Global and International
Research Consortium on Climate Change and Population Health – an interdisciplinary research group convened to explore new approaches to climate change and health issues.
Coalition on Health and Environment: Climate Change Initiative - the UNFCCC-based collaborative designed to put health is the heart of climate change considerations
Capacity Building for African Nurses on Climate& Health Science, Disease Surveillance and Policy - an innovative North-South partnership between SeaTrust Institute and the African NGO Nurses Across the Borders builds nurses’ capacity to lead process and decisions about adaptation to climate change and climate related diseases, engages nurses with disease surveillance, and helps forge the link between climate science, health research and policy-making.
Regional
Ongoing coastal and marine research studies link with our educational projects as we both study and teach about the linked scientific and social forces that shape the Pacific Northwest. A key component to this research is information and knowledge-building in collaboration with experts, the public and policy makers.
This year newest project is a nature-based Marine Tourism / Indigenous Interpretation project. Our visiting scholar and researcher from Murdoch University in Perth, Australia will be leading that initiative in 2011.
Our staff continues to coordinate regional biological, ecosystem, health and social scientific research on issues of interest to the SeaTrust Institute community. If you are a researcher who has contributed to coastal ecology, environmental policy, climate and health, or ecological tourism globally or along the Pacific Northwest coast, we would like to include your work in our database, please click here.
(Top image: SeaTrust Institute and Nurses Across the Borders Lead UNFCCC Side Event, COP16 in Cancun, MX 2010)
(Bottom image: Sunflower Star in Puget Sound, Washington State USA)