Presentations
Publications
Michele Remer, Cruising a socio-ecological Bering Strait: local impacts from distant tourism. [Oral Presentation]. Strait Science Talk, Nome, AK. 2025.
Sydney Waloven, A review of Arctic marine mammals and metacoupled interactions across the Pan-Arctic [Oral Conference Presentation]. International Association for Landscape Ecology Conference, Raleigh, N.C. 2025
Kelly Kapsar, Navigating change: Mapping metacoupled vessel dynamics in the rapidly evolving Bering Strait [Oral Conference Presentation]. International Association for Landscape Ecology Conference, Raleigh, N.C. 2025
Bella Block, Effectiveness of the ‘Area to be Avoided’ Policy on Vessel Traffic in the Bering Strait [Workshop Presentation]. Nome Community Meetings, Nome, AK. 2025
Bella Block, Effectiveness of the ‘Area to be Avoided’ Policy on Vessel Traffic in the Bering Strait [Oral Conference Presentation]. Arctic Science Summit Week/ICARP IV, Boulder, CO. 2025
Bella Block, Effectiveness of the ‘Area to be Avoided’ Policy on Vessel Traffic in the Bering Strait [Poster Presentation]. UAA Research Showcase, Anchorage, AK. 2025
Bella Block, Bering Strait Vessel Traffic: The Forefront of Change in the Arctic. [Oral Presentation]. UAA ISER Brown Bag Talk Series, Anchorage, AK. 2025
Michele Remer, Cruising Nome: potential risks of invasive species [Workshop Presentation]. Nome Community Meetings, Nome, AK. 2025
Michele Remer, Global introduction and establishment of invasive species through a metacoupled lens [Oral Conference Presentation]. International Association for Landscape Ecology Conference, Raleigh, N.C. 2025
Michele Remer, Cruising the Arctic: local impacts from distant tourism [Oral Conference Presentation]. Fisheries and Wildlife GSO Symposium, MSU, East Lansing, MI. 2025
Sydney Waloven, A Synthesis of Pacific Arctic Marine Mammal Occurrences. [Conference Poster]. Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska. 2025
Michele Remer, Impacts of Tourism in a Telecoupled Bering Strait Region. [Conference Poster]. Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska. 2025
Michele Remer, Tourism and Species Invasion in a Warming Arctic. [Conference Presentation]. Environmental Science and Policy Symposium, East Lansing, Michigan. 2024
Bella Block, Managing Increased Rates of Vessel Traffic in the Bering Strait. Arctic Congress, Bodø, Norway, 2024.
Bella Block, Jennifer Schmidt, Kelly Kapsar and Dillon J. Hotspot Analysis of Bering Strait and Sea, 2015-2022 [Conference Poster]. Alaska Marine Science Symposium. Anchorage, Ak. 2024
Michele Remer, Livingston A., Coalter, J., Sydney Waloven, Jianguo “Jack” Liu, A Review of Tourism and Species Invasion in a Warming Arctic [Conference poster]. International Association of Landscape Ecology – North America Chapter, Oklahoma City, OK. 2024
Kelly Kapsar, Sullender, B., and Kuletz, K. Recent patterns of vessel risk to seabirds: A multi-scale seasonal analysis in the North Pacific and Arctic [Conference poster]. International Association of Landscape Ecology – North America Chapter. Oklahoma City, OK. 2024
Sydney Waloven, Cahill, C., Predicting bearded seal abundance in the Bering Strait Region [Conference Presentation]. International Association of Landscape Ecology – North America Chapter, Oklahoma City, OK. 2024
Sydney Waloven, Cahill, C., Predicting bearded seal abundance in the Bering Strait Region [Conference Presentation]. Michigan State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Annual Graduate Student Organization Research Symposium, East Lansing, MI. 2024
Kelly Kapsar, Sullender, B., and Kuletz, K., Quantifying risk of vessel encounters with sea ducks in the North Pacific: A multi-scale seasonal analysis of Alaskan Oceans [Conference Presentation]. The International Sea Duck conference (virtual). 2024
Michele Remer, A Life Cycle Assessment of a Tourist Visit to Nome, Alaska. [Conference Presentation]. Michigan State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Annual Graduate Student Organization Research Symposium, East Lansing, MI. 2024
Kelly Kapsar, Seabird-vessel traffic risk analysis for Alaska’s oceans [Conference Presentation]. Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska. 2023
Sydney Waloven, The Bering Strait as an Emerging Global Gateway: A Telecoupled Human and Natural System [Conference Presentation]. Michigan State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Annual Graduate Student Organization Research Symposium, East Lansing, MI. 2023
Michele Remer, Tourism and Invasive Species in an Arctic Telecoupled System [Conference Presentation]. Michigan State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Annual Graduate Student Organization Research Symposium, East Lansing, MI. 2023
Sydney Waloven, Natalia Portales, Kelly Kapsar, Jianguo Liu. A synthesized dataset of Pacific Arctic marine mammal occurrences (1860-2024). Data in Brief, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2025.112036
Kelly Kapsar, Benjamin Sullender, Katherine Kuletz. A multiscale seasonal examination of the risk of harm to seabirds from vessels based on co-occurrence in Alaskan waters. Conservation Biology, 2025. DOI: 10.1111/cobi.70115
Bella Block, Michele Remer, Kelly Kapsar, and Jen Schmidt. Analysis on the Effectiveness of International Maritime Organization’s ‘Areas to be Avoided’ Policy on Vessel Traffic in the Bering Strait (2015-2022). Marine Policy, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106849
Aurora Torres, Jean-Baptiste Jouffray, Vera Van Lancker, Arnaud Vander Velpen, Jianguo Liu. Reducing Sand Mining’s Growing Toll on Marine Biodiversity. One Earth, 2025. DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101202
Veronica Frans and Jianguo Liu. Gaps and opportunities in modeling human influence on species distributions in the Anthropocene. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02435-3
Kelly Kapsar, Grant Gunn, Lawson Brigham and Jianguo “Jack” Liu. Mapping vessel traffic patterns in the ice-covered waters of the Pacific Arctic. Climatic Change, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-023-03568-3
Jianguo “Jack” Liu, Leveraging the metacoupling framework for sustainability science and global sustainable development. National Science Review, 2023. DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwad090
Sydney Waloven, Kelly Kapsar, Tobias Schwoerer, Matthew Berman, Jennifer I. Schmidt, Andrés Viña and Jianguo Liu “Global Gateways as Telecoupled Human and Natural Systems: The Emerging Case of the Bering Strait” Ambio, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-023-01835-2
Kelly Kapsar, Frans, Veronica F.; Brigham, Lawson W. and Jianguo “Jack” Liu, The metacoupled Arctic: Human–nature interactions across local to global scales as drivers of sustainability Ambio, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-022-01729-9
Nicholas Manning, Yingjie Li, and Jianguo Liu. Broader applicability of the metacoupling framework than Tobler’s first law of geography for global sustainability: a systematic review. Geography and Sustainability. 2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.geosus.2022.11.003
Remer, M. and Liu, J. International Tourism in the Arctic under COVID-19: A Telecoupling Analysis of Iceland. Sustainability, 2022. DOI: 10.3390/su142215237
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