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Problem-Solving Areas

• Human health and ocean pollution
• Land-sea connections and coastal land management
• Marine protected areas and ocean zoning
• Aquaculture
• Oceans and climate change
• Ocean genomics
• Habitat conservation

Woods-Sponsored Research Projects

• Center for Ocean Solutions. Created by three leading marine science and policy institutions: Stanford University (through the Woods Institute for the Environment and Hopkins Marine Station), Monterey Bay Aquarium, and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). The Center combines Stanford's expertise in marine biology, oceanography, engineering, economics, business, law, and policy with the Monterey Bay Aquarium's unparalleled success at public education and outreach, and MBARI's leadership in deep-sea exploration, ocean technology, and marine economics. Other nearby institutions, including the University of California-Santa Cruz and California State University's Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, may join the Center for Ocean Solutions collaboration in the future.
• Food Security & the Environment (FSE). This joint project of the Woods Institute and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is looking at the key issues of predicting the environmental impact of increased global demand for protein, including aquaculture practices.
• Environmental Venture Projects. EVPs provide seed funding for promising, potentially transformative research involving interdisciplinary teams of Stanford faculty. Topics include pattern and process of coral-reef adaptation and mineral dust components in aerosols and their effect on ocean productivity.

Related Programs and Projects

• Hopkins Marine Station is a marine biology research and educational facility that operates as a branch of Stanford University's Department of Biological Sciences. At Hopkins, Woods Institute researchers are looking at marine population ecology, tracking tuna behavior and developing new international fishing policy to restore the wild fishery and evaluating the effectiveness of "ocean zoning," i.e., how to develop a system of geographical zones in which governments would protect oceans from harmful uses.
• Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program. This leading education and research program is located in the Stanford Law School.
• Environmental and Water Studies.
• Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab.
• Oceanography, School of Earth Sciences
• Stanford Fisheries Policy Project. The project focuses at the intersection of science and policy around fisheries management.
• Sustainable Food Production in Yaqui Valley, Mexico. This project looks at how to reduce fertilizer and water use while maintaining crop yields; impact of aquaculture; how not to undermine the valley's environment; structure of national and international policies to encourage sustainability.
• Tuna Research & Conservation Center (with Monterey Bay Aquarium). Research efforts at the tuna center focus on advancing knowledge of the basic biology and captive husbandry of tunas.