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Summer Martin
Climate Change:Multiplying Threats to National Security
16 page report prepared by IGERT Fellows seeks to raise awareness among the national’s political leaders about the threats that climate change poses to national security. It reviews what the Department of Defense... More »
About Me
I graduated from U.C. San Diego with degrees in Ecology and Economics and worked in both the public and private sectors before beginning graduate school at Scripps. At NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center, my research focused on the recovery of Pacific dolphin populations that were historically killed as bycatch in the tuna industry. As a Senior Associate with a San Francisco financial consulting firm, I managed project teams that worked to improve revenues and operations for hospitals.
Since coming back to science and conservation at Scripps, I have worked on a variety of marine ecology and conservation problems. These include work in Latin America on three different projects: 1) blue-footed booby seabird ecology on Isla Isabel, Mexico with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2) artisanal fisheries bycatch of loggerhead turtles with Proyecto Caguama and Grupo Tortuguero in Baja Sur, Mexico, and 3) olive ridley turtle nesting populations and egg harvest in Ostional, Costa Rica. Additionally, I have worked on zooplankton populations in Antarctica, squid in the California Current and Hawaii, and marine mammals around the Hawaiian Islands. My dissertation is focused on ecosystem-based management in the oceanic eastern tropical Pacific.
