Eric Gilman
Senior Research Scientist, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership & Hawaii Pacific University

Eric Gilman, Ph.D., is Associate Faculty with Hawaii Pacific University, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, and is a freelance research scientist. Eric has experience in biodiversity, fisheries and coastal ecosystem research and policy. His current research disciplines are (i) fisheries science and policy, focusing on mitigating the bycatch of sensitive species groups in marine capture fisheries; (ii) coastal ecosystem responses to climate change and adaptation options; and (iii) designing and applying suites of criteria to identify areas and site networks of high relative value across manifestations of biodiversity.

Eric’s previous employment has included serving as the Marine Science Advisor with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Global Marine Programme, Visiting Scientist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Head of Participation of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Pacific Representative for the National Audubon Society Oceans Program, Special Assistant for the Environment with the Office of the Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Environmental Advisor to the Pohnpei Port Authority of the Federated States of Micronesia.

Eric’s publications, available at http://bit.ly/biodiversity-fisheries-research, are on bycatch mitigation in pelagic fisheries, governance of marine capture fisheries, coastal ecosystem responses to climate change, criteria suites for identifying areas of relative biodiversity conservation value, wetlands ecology and management, spatial planning, and community-based management.

He has a Ph.D. from the University of Tasmania School of Geography and Environmental Studies; M.Sc. from Oregon State University Department of Oceanography; and B.A. from Wesleyan University.

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