Postdoc Emily Klein Co-Chairs Meeting on Long-Term Change in Marine and Fisheries Systems

Emily Klein, a senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, co-chaired the International Council for Exploration of the Seas Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries (ICES WGHIST) annual meeting at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom last week.

The ICES WGHIST brings together interdisciplinary researchers around issues related to social and ecological changes in marine and fisheries systems over multidecadal to centennial timescales. The WGHIST explores these changes from different geographic regions, as well as different thematic areas and disciplines, in an effort to clarify the value and use of historical perspectives and research for contemporary management.

The WGHIST meeting kicked off with a mini-symposium on marine historical ecology and maritime history research across a range of disciplines. During the meeting, Klein and co-chair Ruth Thurstan (who gave a talk on marine historical ecology at the Pardee Center in January) led the WGHIST on advancing work for ICES and the broader scientific community, including expanding available digital products and contributions to ICES Ecosystem Overviews and Fisheries Overviews, as well as producing papers for peer review on the importance of long-term perspectives and on lessons from interdisciplinary conversations for early career scientists.

More information about WGHIST can be found on the ICES website, and on social media using the hashtag #WGHIST.