My name is Jason and I'm a Project Researcher at the Environmental Market Solutions Lab (emLab) at the University of California, Santa Barbara working on marine spatial planning and coastal and fisheries management on islands in the Caribbean, Pacific, and Western Indian Ocean. I work with emLab’s partners at the Waitt Institute on their work with the Blue Prosperity Coalition. My work has helped guide marine spatial planning in Montserrat and Bermuda, and inform fisheries management in Barbuda, Curacao, the Maldives, and Montserrat.
I am also a Research Assistant for the Foundation for Environmental Conservation and co-organised the Foundation’s 7th International Conference on Environmental Future: Humans and Island Environments in 2018.
Prior to starting at emLab in 2016, I worked on the EU funded Future of Reefs in a Changing Environment project in the Marine Spatial Ecology Lab at the University of Queensland, Australia, where I developed a coral reef managers’ handbook, "Towards reef resilience and sustainable livelihoods: a handbook for Caribbean reef managers". I have worked for marine conservation NGOs in Honduras, Bonaire, Tobago and the Seychelles, doing reef surveys and restoration, teaching tropical marine conservation, and collaborating with and training local partners to aid conservation efforts. I have an MSc in Tropical Coastal Management from Newcastle University in the UK, and a BSc in Chemistry and Molecular Physics from the University of Nottingham, UK.
- 💬 Ask me about marine spatial analysis in R and fisheries management
- 📫 Contact me: jflower@ucsb.edu
- 😄 Pronouns: He/ Him/ His
- 📓 Publications: Google scholar page
- 📸 My photos website, hosted on Github, with Mediterranean and Caribbean marine life ID guides
- Flower et al. 2021. An experimental evaluation of the effect of escape gaps on the quantity, diversity, and size of fish caught in traps in Montserrat. PLOS ONE. Code and data repo
- Flower et al. 2020 Marine spatial planning on the Caribbean island of Montserrat: Lessons for data-limited small islands. Conservation Science and Practice. Code and data repo
