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Dana Grieco is a doctoral candidate in Marine Science and Conservation at the Duke University Marine Lab, where she studies how climate change impacts small-scale, data-poor coral reef fisheries, and identifies how conservation can be leveraged as a tool to mitigate these impacts. She is also a 2024-2025 von der Heyden Fellow. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dana investigates reef fisheries by looking holistically at both the reef fish and dependent communities. The aims of this work are to 1) generate evidence-based insights on how conservation interventions can lead to sustainable outcomes for tropical fishery systems in the face of climate change, 2) advance research methods in coral-reef fishery assessments, and 3) inform fisheries practice.
During the spring semester of 2025, Grieco spoke at the John Hope Franklin Center’s ‘Wednesdays at the Center’ series with her lecture ‘Using systems thinking to understand how climate change and conservation impact data-poor coral reef fisheries'. In this talk, Grieco shared findings from her dissertation regarding how anthropogenic climate change impacts coral reef social-ecological systems, and what we can do to potentially mitigate the impacts of climate change. The event was sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center and von der Heyden Fellowship Program.
Website: https://jhfc.duke.edu
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/duke-university-john-hope-franklin-center
Instagram: instagram.com/jhfc_duke
Facebook: facebook.com/jhfcduke
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Dana Grieco is a doctoral candidate in Marine Science and Conservation at the Duke University Marine Lab, where she studies how climate change impacts small-scale, data-poor coral reef fisheries, and identifies how conservation can be leveraged as a tool to mitigate these impacts. She is also a 2024-2025 von der Heyden Fellow. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dana investigates reef fisheries by looking holistically at both the reef fish and dependent communities. The aims of this work are to 1) generate evidence-based insights on how conservation interventions can lead to sustainable outcomes for tropical fishery systems in the face of climate change, 2) advance research methods in coral-reef fishery assessments, and 3) inform fisheries practice.
During the spring semester of 2025, Grieco spoke at the John Hope Franklin Center’s ‘Wednesdays at the Center’ series with her lecture ‘Using systems thinking to understand how climate change and conservation impact data-poor coral reef fisheries'. In this talk, Grieco shared findings from her dissertation regarding how anthropogenic climate change impacts coral reef social-ecological systems, and what we can do to potentially mitigate the impacts of climate change. The event was sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Center and von der Heyden Fellowship Program.
Website: https://jhfc.duke.edu
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/duke-university-john-hope-franklin-center
Instagram: instagram.com/jhfc_duke
Facebook: facebook.com/jhfcduke
X (Twitter): twitter.com/jhfcduke
