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 My research interests focus on the relationship between seamounts and other large bathymetric features and the migratory and foraging patterns of large pelagic animals, such as seals, seabirds and whales. I am working with the Tagging of Pacific Pelagics (www.toppcensus.org) program to explore the oceanography surrounding seamounts and the way seamounts and other features create areas of increased productivity, and how this will affect the conservation efforts of both seamount ecosystems and the animals that use them. The science of conservation biology became my focus during my undergraduate career at the University of Florida where I majored in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (http://www.wec.ufl.edu/). My major focused on the concepts of conservation biology from a terrestrial perspective but I broadened my scope by spending several summers at the Duke University Marine Laboratory (http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/marinelab/) taking marine related classes and working as a research and teaching assistant. I also spent a semester as an intern with the veterinary staff at Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium (http://www.mote.org/) in Sarasota FL. After finishing my undergraduate degree and prior to coming to UCSC, I spent four years working for Marine Conservation Biology Institute (http://www.mcbi.org/), a non-profit organization located near Seattle WA which is dedicated to promoting conservation through science. There I focused on a number of conservation related issues, including bycatch and habitat issues surrounding commercial fishing gear, marine protected areas and the conservation of deep-water sponge and coral communities.
Maxwell, S., H. Ehrlich, L. Speer and W. Chandler (2005). Medicines from the deep: the importance of protecting the high seas from bottom trawling. Natural Resources Defense Council, New York. 14 pp. Morgan, L.E., S. Maxwell, C.-F. Tsao, T. Wilkinson and P. Etnoyer (2005). Priority Conservation Areas: Baja California to the Bering Sea. Final Report of Marine Conservation Biology Institute and the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Montreal, Canada, 132 pp. Tsao, C.-F., L.E. Morgan, and S. Maxwell (2005). The Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Region Selected as a Priority Conservation Area in the Baja California to Bering Sea Initiative. Proceedings of the 2005 Puget Sound Georgia Basin Research Conference, Puget Sound Action Team, Olympia, WA. Chuenpagdee, R., L.E. Morgan, S. Maxwell, E.A. Norse and D. Pauly (2003). Shifting gears: Assessing collateral impacts of fishing methods in the U.S. waters. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(10): 517-524. |
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