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Rob Brumbaugh
Rob Brumbaugh
Lead Scientist, Global Marine Team
Contact Information
E-mail: rbrumbaugh@tnc.org
Brief Biography
Dr. Rob Brumbaugh is lead scientist for The Nature Conservancy's Global Marine Team, for which he serves as the restoration program director. In that capacity, he works to facilitate the restoration and long-term conservation of critically imperiled marine and estuarine habitats and ecosystems in marine ecoregions that the Conservancy has identified as priorities for marine conservation.
The Global Marine Team’s Restoration Program provides technical guidance to the Conservancy's state, regional and country programs to facilitate the implementation of restoration and conservation projects ranging focused on riparian buffers and tidal wetlands, submerged sea grass meadows, oyster reefs, mangroves and coral reefs. The Global Marine Team leverages the Conservancy's site-based conservation work through partnerships with national and multilateral agencies that help to take restoration and conservation to ecologically meaningful scales. Examples include an ongoing national partnership between the Conservancy and NOAA’s Community-based Restoration Program that provides funding and technical support for habitat restoration, and a partnership with NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program that is designed to increase the effectiveness of reef conservation in all U.S. jurisdictions where NOAA and the Conservancy work.
Rob has more than 16 years of experience working to advance marine policy and implementation of conservation and restoration activities at various scales with a diversity of partners including local, state and federal agencies, and has worked for the Conservancy since 2004. He holds a doctorate in biological oceanography with an emphasis on population biology and recruitment dynamics of fish and invertebrate populations.
Recent Publications
Beck, M.W., R.D. Brumbaugh, L. Airoldi, A. Carranza, L.D. Coen, C. Crawford, O. Defeo, G.Edgar, B. Hancock, M. Kay, H. Lenihan, M. Luckenbach, C. Toropova, G. Zhang and X. Guo. 2011. Oyster reefs at risk and recommendations for conservation, restoration and management. Bioscience 61(2): 107-116.
Brumbaugh, R.D., Beck, M.W., Hancock, B., Meadows, A.W., Spalding, M., and P. zu Ermgassen. 2010. Changing a management paradigm and rescuing a globally imperiled habitat. National Wetlands Newsletter 32(6):16-20.
Brumbaugh, R.D. and L.D. Coen. 2009. Contemporary approaches for small-scale oyster reef restoration to address substrate versus recruitment limitation: A review and comments relevant for the Olympia oyster,
Ostrea lurida (Carpenter, 1864). J. Shellfish Res. 28:1-15.
Brumbaugh, R.D. and C. Toropova. 2008. Economic valuation of ecosystem services: A new impetus for shellfish restoration? Basins and Coasts News 2(2):8-15. USAID/IMCAFS
Coen, L.D., R.D. Brumbaugh, D. Bushek, R. Grizzle, M.W. Luckenbach, M.H. Posey, S.P. Powers and S.G. Tolley. 2007. Ecosystem services related to oyster restoration. Marine Ecology Progress Series 341:303-
307.
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