Pledge About

Mark RIchardson

Special Assistant to the Executive Director, Marine Mammal Commission

Presentation: Enforcing Remote Marine Protected Areas - The unique challenges of protecting US Marine National Monuments in the Pacific

Biography:

Mark joined Marine Conservation Institute in 2010, after working for several years with the HHS Office of Inspector General on performance evaluations of federal public health emergency preparedness efforts. As a Conservation Scientist with MCI, Mark coordinated the organization’s program on marine protected area law enforcement and led its campaign to conserve and protect endangered Hawaiian monk seals. He was the principle investigator on a study on illegal fishing threats to US marine national monuments in the western and central Pacific Ocean and helped organize and lead federal stakeholder workshops to identify solutions for law enforcement in the Pacific Islands region. Mark recently joined the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, where he now leads a number of scientific and policy management initiatives, including a global assessment of fisheries bycatch and other threats to marine mammal populations. Mark holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, and a Master’s in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland. As part of his graduate work at UMD, Mark helped develop a monitoring tool for use in a cohort of no-take marine areas throughout the Coral Triangle region.

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