Leslie Reeder-Myers
Temple University, PA·Social Science
Small-scale coastal fisheries feed many communities, but they face rising seas, changing land use and swings in fish stocks. How do such fisheries survive these changes, and why do they sometimes collapse?
- Fields
Social Science
Ecology & Evolution
Earth & Environmental Science
- Topics
archaeology
small-scale fisheries
coastal fisheries
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Feb 2027
What they work on
- Test whether sharp drops in an ancient mangrove fishery's productivity were driven by lagoon ecology, political organization or nearby farming, using excavations and sediment cores across two millennia.
- Track ecological change in the coastal wetland using crustacean remains, pollen and plant remains, dated with radiocarbon.
- Reconstruct changing fish harvests through zooarchaeological analysis of middens, and track social and agricultural change through ceramics and stone tools, alongside observations of modern fishing.
More about the research
This project looks for answers in the past. It studies a mangrove wetland fishery over the past two thousand years to understand what shapes fishing behavior and catches over long periods.
Why it matters
A two-thousand-year record of how a mangrove fishery responded to ecological, political and land-use changes could inform the management of today's small-scale coastal fisheries. Fishing communities and fishery managers facing sea-level rise, land-use change and fluctuating fish stocks could benefit. A planned workshop focuses on sustainable management of the studied fishery.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
Temple University: 22 labs on PI Pages, $315M a year on research, 238 research doctorates a year.
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