Katharine F. Wellman

Ocean acidification is a global, long-term problem whose ultimate solution requires carbon dioxide reduction at a scope and scale that will take decades to accomplish successfully. Until that is achieved, feasible and locally relevant adaptation and mitigation measures are needed. To help to prioritize societal responses to ocean acidification, we...

Planning for and monitoring human wellbeing (HWB) as a component of ecosystem recovery is a growing trend in environmental management. Within the Puget Sound specifically, organizations at the watershed and basin scale have been developing recovery action plans with placeholders for HWB or quality of life indicators. While the actual incorporation...

In this article we attempt to illustrate the potential benefits to Alaskan commercial fisheries expected from enhancements to the Alaska Ocean Observing System (AOOS) through changes in fishery management strategies. In particular we show how the use of improved AOOS data in research, stock assessment, and ultimately fisheries management has the po...

We develop a methodology to estimate the potential economic benefits from new investments in regional coastal ocean observing systems in US waters, and apply this methodology to generate preliminary estimates of such benefits. The approach focuses on potential economic benefits from coastal ocean observing information within ten geographic regions...

This paper discusses a methodology for joining deliberation and analysis, using the case-study example of a National Estuary Program planning effort in Tillamook Bay, OR, USA. We describe the development of a community-based evaluation tool that links actions proposed by technical experts (e.g. biologists, ecologists, engineers) to restore function...

Historically, about half the oil transported through the global marine environment has come through the Arabian Gulf and the annual input of oil to the gulf's marine environment is skewed toward sources connected with marine transport. As a case study, we assess the damages from an oil spill caused by a collision between the crude oil tankers Baynu...

The purpose of this report is to provide a systematic approach to planning, implementing, and interpreting monitoring programs for restoration projects. The objective of the report is to show how a monitoring program proceeds from identification of restoration project goals, through selecting monitoring methods, and finally to interpretation and di...

This article describes a community‐based approach to salmon restoration and management in Willapa Bay, Washington. Willapa Bay is an area rich in natural resources, historically oriented toward extraction activities, and with increasing threats to its fishery resource. Members of the community have rejected the traditional blend of agency and indus...

This report was prepared under the Engineering Environmental Investments: Formulating Inputs and Monitoring Effectiveness Work Unit of the Evaluation of Environmental Investments Research Program. This interim report is part of a series of reports to help build into the "Prototype Information Tree for Environmental Restoration Plan Formulation and...

The main objective is to address the limitations of past US fish demand research through the development of a variation of the almost ideal demand system model for disaggregate fish products at the retail level. Price and expenditure elasticities, as well as elasticities of substitution between fish products and other protein commodities, determine...

Natural resource valuation has always had a fundamental role in the practice of cost-benefit analysis of health, safety, and environmental issues. Today, this role is becoming all the more apparent in the conduct of natural resource damage assessments (NRDA) and cost-benefit analyses of environmental restoration (ER) and waste management (WM) activ...

Natural resource valuation has always had a fundamental role in the practice of cost-benefit analysis of health, safety, and environmental issues. The authors provide an objective overview of resource valuation techniques and describe their potential role in environmental restoration/waste management (ER/WM) activities at federal facilities. This h...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1990. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [213]-225).