Jorge Brenner

Jorge Brenner
Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System

Ph.D.

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Introduction
Environmental Strategic Planning ◦ Geospatial Data Science ◦ Technology Innovation ◦ Climate Risk Assessment
Additional affiliations
July 2010 - June 2020
The Nature Conservancy
Position
  • Managing Director
July 2007 - June 2010
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Position
  • PostDoc Position
September 2002 - May 2007
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Position
  • PhD Student

Publications

Publications (55)
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Prevention of non-native species introductions and establishment is essential to avoid adverse impacts of invasive species in marine environments. To identify potential new invasive species and inform non-native species management options for the northern Gulf of Mexico (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas), 138 marine species were risk screened...
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Prevention of non-native species introductions and establishment is essential to avoid adverse impacts of invasive species in marine environments. To identify potential new invasive species and inform non-native species management options for the northern Gulf of Mexico (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas), 138 marine species were risk screened...
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In recent decades, gobies have dispersed or introduced from the Ponto-Caspian region of eastern Europe in a westerly direction to North American and western European waters. By contrast, the naked goby, Gobiosoma bosc, is the only known gobiid species to have been introduced in an easterly direction from North American to western Europe. The potent...
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Marine protected areas (MPAs) are important tools for the conservation of marine species and ocean ecosystems. They are most often designed to protect and restore declining marine communities and their habitats, but they can also be established to sustain human relationships with the ocean. Incorporating an understanding of ecological connections i...
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Based on a case study (the Anegada de Adentro Reef, Veracruz Reef System National Park, southwestern Gulf of Mexico), a method that allows quantifying a negative impact on hermatypic corals is proposed. Two photo transects of 100m length at a constant depth (to avoid differences in a coral community caused by depth) were followed. Both transects ha...
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The importance of coral reefs (CR) within marine ecosystems has become widely recognized. Although shallow CR are not as abundant in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) as in other areas such as the Caribbean, their uniqueness, singularity, isolation, and conservation status make their conservation highly important. Corals and CR, both shallow and deep, are m...
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The distributions of migratory species in the ocean span local, national and international jurisdictions. Across these ecologically interconnected regions, migratory marine species interact with anthropogenic stressors throughout their lives. Migratory connectivity, the geographical linking of individuals and populations throughout their migratory...
Technical Report
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Este reporte presenta una línea base del estado de diversidad y salud de los arrecifes de coral cercanos a la zona de construcción del nuevo puerto usando el protocolo AGRRA. El análisis incluye resultados de los muestreos realizados durante 2017 y 2018 por la Universidad Veracruzana, Sea&Reef y The Nature Conservancy en los arrecifes que se consid...
Technical Report
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A new publication about tuna distributions and important areas introducing a toolkit for fisheries managers and policy-makers in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Coastal protection of communities and property using “green infrastructure” approaches is gaining popularity as the science and practice improve. Guidance is limited for decision makers interested in taking action to protect shorelines. Here, we offer practical guidance for decision makers interested in moving beyond generalities for coastal protec...
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Se encontraron diferencias en los patrones espaciales para los seis grupos, siendo las estaciones de verano e invierno en las que las agrupaciones de observaciones están más aglomeradas, probablemente debido a que la primavera y el otoño son periodos de transición de las condiciones ambientales, así como de migración de algunas especies. Casi todos...
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Businesses may be missing opportunities to account for ecosystem services in their decisions because they do not have methods to quantify and value ecosystem services. We developed a method to quantify and value coastal protection and other ecosystem services in the context of a cost-benefit analysis of hurricane risk mitigation options for a busin...
Technical Report
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The Texas Coastal Bend Regional Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment identified potential changes caused by a changing climate and environment in the Coastal Bend area. It assessed how current changes in climate stability could have future effects on sea level, storms, hydrology, geomorphology, natural habitats and species, land use, economy, hu...
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To investigate effects of watershed nutrient loadings on estuarine responses, we analyzed historical data from the Lower San Antonio and Guadalupe River Watersheds, Texas, USA, and developed a generic ecosystem model. Twenty-one years (1976 - 1997) of historical water quality data were obtained from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TC...
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We integrated coral reef connectivity data for the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico into a conservation decision-making framework for designing a regional scale marine protected area (MPA) network that provides insight into ecological and political contexts. We used an ocean circulation model and regional coral reef data to simulate eight spawning even...
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The Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) was applied at six major estuaries along Florida's Gulf Coast (Pensacola Bay, St. Andrews/Choctawhatchee Bays, Apalachicola Bay, Southern Big Bend, Tampa Bay and Charlotte Harbor) to provide quantitative and spatial information on how coastal ecosystems may change with sea level rise (SLR) and to identi...
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Over the last few decades, Mediterranean coastal areas have experienced profound land-use changes due mainly to urban sprawl and reforestation at the expense of former traditional agrarian mosaics and natural resources, such as beach areas or freshwaters streams. These changes have had severe negative consequences on the biodiversity and ecological...
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Coral reefs provide coastal populations with valuable ecosystem services but few studies explore the spatial context in which those services are provided. This study presents a spatial modeling approach to assess ecosystem services provided by coral reefs. Our approach integrates spatial analysis tools and multi-criteria evaluation techniques to de...
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As the Gulf of Mexico recovers from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, natural resource managers face the challenge of understanding the impacts of the spill and setting priorities for restoration work. The full value of losses resulting from the spill cannot be captured, however, without consideration of changes in ecosystem services--the benefits d...
Conference Paper
Background/Question/Methods Coastal habitats are important local public goods because they provide natural hazard mitigation services to various members of coastal communities, among other services. Despite increasing evidence of the value of these services, coastal habitats continue to be degraded. Three major factors that may be causing underin...
Technical Report
Informing conservation planning using sea-level rise and storm surge impact estimates in Saint Andrew and Choctawhatchee Bays, Florida
Technical Report
Sea-level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM) Runs and Conservation Planning Data Platform Development – For Three Focal Areas in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Galveston Bay and Southern Jefferson County in Texas, and Grand Bay NERR/NWR in Mississippi
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The Texas coast is likely to experience severe climate change impacts because of a synergy between the regional climate regime and the coastal geology. Lying between about 26 and 30 degrees N latitude, the Texas coast is already in a relatively warm climate zone and subject to very high rates of evaporation (Larkin and Bomar 1983). Thus, potential...
Technical Report
Assessing the Potential Impact of Sea-Level Rise and Climatic Hazards on Ecological and Human Communities within the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Technical Report
Informing conservation planning using sea-level rise and storm surge impact estimates in the Galveston Bay and Jefferson County
Technical Report
Informing conservation planning using sea-level rise and storm surge impact estimates in the Grand Bay NERR/ NWR area in Mississippi
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A spatial value transfer analysis was performed to generate baseline estimates of the value of ecosystem services in the coastal zone of Catalonia, Spain. The study used the best available conceptual frameworks, data sources, and analytical techniques to generate non-market monetary value estimates that can be used to identify scarce ecosystem serv...
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Recientemente concluyó el inventario de todas las especies marinas del Golfo de México. El estudio fue patrocinado por el Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies de la Universidad Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. El proyecto duró cuatro años en los que participaron 140 taxónomos de 80 instituciones en 15 países. El resultado fue una publicació...
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This chapter describes the environmental indicators GIS of the Catalan coast, Spain. The spatial data model is based on vector and raster layers with three main modules: the biodiversity, the general biophysical and the socioeconomic. Presently, the database has a number of pressure and impact indicators that have been used to model the components...
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Estuarine nutrient enrichment is thought to be controlled by land use patterns in coastal watersheds. Hence, the objective of this work was to conduct a watershed analysis in two adjacent river basins with different land use characteristics to determine their influence on estuarine ecosystem response in the Guadalupe Estuary, Texas, U.S.A. All data...
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This study departs from the hypothesis that ecosystem services are becoming scarce by experiencing serious degradation in regard to their capability to provide services efficiently in the Catalan coast, Spain. It constitutes a contribution to the analysis of non-market natural capital in the Catalan coastal zone from an efficient allocation perspec...
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In the past decades the Catalonian coastal area (Mediterranean Sea) has been subject to an intense human pressure due to the high concentration of activities and settlements. Although some of the impacts are evident others are not, or have not been studied in detail in this region. In the present study we evaluate the environmental quality of the c...
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Geographical areas constitute the basic implementation locus for integrated coastal zone management strategies and activities. Because the definition of territorial planning objectives may be affected by socioeconomic and environmental characteristics, one of the main steps in the process involves dividing the coast into homogeneous environmental m...
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Is fish diversity a useful indicator of the ecological resilience of the coastal zone? This is a first attempt to assess the characteristics of fishes that help to build resilience at the ecosystem level.
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Water body characterization begins defining its structure and function. Bathymetric estimation using remote sensing technology is well known for its continuum representation of bottom and considerable reduction of traditional soundings. The objective of the present work was to determine the potential of the Landsat - Thematic Mapper (TM) Sensor for...
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Marine biodiversity and ecosystems are under heavy and increasing environmental pressure from multiple sources for utilization of ecosystem goods and services. Past experience of coastal and marine resource management illustrates how the discontinuity on the limits of ecosystem and human subsystems can lead to serious ecological, social and economi...

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