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Liam M. Carr
Liam M. Carr, PhD
Lecturer, Discipline of Geography
MSc Coordinator, Coastal & Marine Environments: Physical Processes, Policy & Practice
Geography Room 104
Arts & Science Building
NUI Galway
University Road
Galway, Ireland
EDUCATION
PhD - Geography, Texas A&M University (2012)
Reducing uncertainty in fisheries management: the time for fishers’ ecological knowledge.
Advisor: William D. Heyman, PhD
Cert. - Secondary Education, Mathematics, Connecticut Department of Education (2003)
MFS - Forestry and Environmental Studies, Resource Economics, Yale University (2002)
Valuing coral reefs: a travel cost analysis of the Great Barrier Reef.
Advisor: Robert Mendelsohn, PhD
BS - Biological Sciences, Marine Biology, University of Southern California (1999)
BA - Environmental Studies, Social Sciences, University of Southern California (1999)
Fate of petroleum hydrocarbons in Catalina Harbor, Catalina Island, CA.
Advisor: Jennifer Wolch, PhD
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2016- Coordinator, MSc in Coastal and Marine Environments, NUI Galway.
2016- Lecturer, Discipline of Geography, NUI Galway.
2015-16 Fulbright US Scholar and Visiting Lecturer, NUI Galway.
2015 Resident Lecturer, School for Field Studies, South Caicos, TCI.
2014- Founder and President, St. Croix Science & Conservation, St. Croix, VI.
2013-14 Senior Policy Associate, US Southeast and Caribbean Fisheries, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Charleston, SC.
2012-13 Senior Advisor to the Director, NOAA Office of Communications and External Affairs, Washington, DC.
2011-12 Graduate Lecturer, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
2010 Virgin Islands EPSCoR Fellow, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix, VI.
2008-09 Researcher, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
2006-07 Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
2004-06 Research Analyst, Marine Advisory Service, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix, VI.
CURRENT COURSES
2017- Graduate Dissertation, MSc Coastal and Marine Environments (TI 6109, Dissertation Advisor) – NUI Galway, Discipline of Geography, Galway, Ireland.
2017- Marine Spatial Planning (TI 2104, Lecturer) – NUI Galway, Discipline of Geography, Galway, Ireland.
2016- Research Project Design and Development (TI 335/350, Dissertation Advisor) – NUI Galway, Discipline of Geography, Galway, Ireland.
2016- Marine Spatial Planning and Policy (TI 6102, Lecturer) – NUI Galway, Discipline of Geography, Galway, Ireland.
A critical environmental geographer examining marine spatial planning and management, with a focus on how policy decisions impact communities and economies dependent upon the delivery of ecosystem services. Experienced in: Marine Spatial Planning; European policy and legislation; social-ecological systems; qualitative methods; Q-methodology; behavioural and economic modelling; tourism; aquaculture and fisheries; public policy review; stakeholder-driven research; marine ecology and ecosystem characterisation; public outreach and media communications. Research interests: spatial techniques for visualising policy; community engagement; ecosystem goods and services valuation; stakeholder consensus-building.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Maritime, Ocean Sector and Ecosystem Sustainability Project (MOSES) - 2018-2021
Interreg Atlantic Area
Partners: NUI Galway (Ireland), Northern and Western Regional Assembly (Ireland), Queen's University Belfast (Northern Ireland), Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer (France), Fundación AZTI (Spain), Foro Martimo Vasco (Spain), Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco (Spain), Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental (Portugal)
Carr, L.M. In Press. Marine spatial planning in a climate of uncertainty. Irish Geography.
Carr, L.M. 2019. Seeking stakeholder consensus within Ireland’s conflicted salmon aquaculture space. Marine Policy 99: 201-212.
Farrell D., Carr, L.M., and Fahy, F. 2017. On the subject of typology: how Irish coastal communities’ subjectivities reveal intrinsic values towards coastal environments. Ocean & Coastal Management 146: 135-143.
Carr, L.M. and Heyman, W.D. 2016. Testing fisher-developed alternatives to fishery management tools for community support and regulatory effectiveness. Marine Policy 67: 40-53.
Carr, L.M. and Heyman, W.D. 2012. “It’s about seeing what’s actually out there”: quantifying fishers’ ecological knowledge and biases in a small-scale commercial fishery as a path toward co-management. Ocean & Coastal Management 69: 118-132.