Daniel C Dunn | Scholars@Duke

Daniel C Dunn
Assistant Research Professor in the Division of Marine Science and Conservat

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Assistant Research Professor in the Division of Marine Science and Conservat, Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment 2017

Contact Information

135 Marine Lab Rd., Beaufort, NC 28516
135 Marine Lab Rd., Beaufort, NC 28516
daniel.dunn@duke.edu (252) 504-7677
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Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Duke University 2014
Recognition
In the News
- JUL 10, 2018 Nicholas School of the Environment
  
  A Strategy for Making 'No-Mining Zones' in the Deep Sea
Research
Selected Grants
- Next steps in area-based planning beyond national jurisdiction awarded by Seascape Consultants Ltd 2016 - 2021
- Geospatial Analysis of Future Fisheries: Ocean Ecosystem Change and Ocean Resource Management Response - Phase III awarded by University of British Columbia 2011 - 2020
- Area Based Planning in the Deep Seas awarded by WCMC 2017 - 2020
- Sea Mining & PCZ Data Report awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts 2018 - 2019
- SEMPIA Roadmap awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts 2016 - 2017
- Seabed mining Mid-Atlantic ridge GIS analysis awarded by Pew Charitable Trusts 2015
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Academic Articles
  - Crespo, GO, Dunn, DC, Reygondeau, G, Boerder, K, Worm, B, Cheung, W, Tittensor, DP, and Halpin, PN. "The environmental niche of the global high seas pelagic longline fleet." Science Advances 4, no. 8 (August 8, 2018): eaat3681-null. Full Text
  - Dunn, DC, Van Dover, CL, Etter, RJ, Smith, CR, Levin, LA, Morato, T, Colaço, A, Dale, AC, Gebruk, AV, Gjerde, KM, Halpin, PN, Howell, KL, Johnson, D, Perez, JAA, Ribeiro, MC, Stuckas, H, Weaver, P, and SEMPIA Workshop Participants, . "A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges from deep-sea mining." Science Advances 4, no. 7 (July 4, 2018): eaar4313-null. Full Text
  - Dunn, DC, Jablonicky, C, Crespo, GO, McCauley, DJ, Kroodsma, DA, Boerder, K, Gjerde, KM, and Halpin, PN. "Empowering high seas governance with satellite vessel tracking data." Fish and Fisheries 19, no. 4 (July 1, 2018): 729-739. Full Text
  - Muller-Karger, FE, Miloslavich, P, Bax, NJ, Simmons, S, Costello, MJ, Pinto, IS, Canonico, G, Turner, W, Gill, M, Montes, E, Best, BD, Pearlman, J, Halpin, P, Dunn, D, Benson, A, Martin, CS, Weatherdon, LV, Appeltans, W, Provoost, P, Klein, E, Kelble, CR, Miller, RJ, Chavez, FP, Iken, K, Chiba, S, Obura, D, Navarro, LM, Pereira, HM, Allain, V, Batten, S, Benedetti-Checchi, L, Emmett Duffy, J, Kudela, RM, Rebelo, LM, Shin, Y, and Geller, G. "Advancing marine biological observations and data requirements of the complementary Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) and Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) frameworks." Frontiers in Marine Science 5, no. JUN (June 27, 2018). (Review) Full Text
  - Johnson, DE, Barrio Froján, C, Turner, PJ, Weaver, P, Gunn, V, Dunn, DC, Halpin, P, Bax, NJ, and Dunstan, PK. "Reviewing the EBSA process: Improving on success." Marine Policy 88 (February 1, 2018): 75-85. Full Text
  - Mannocci, L, Boustany, AM, Roberts, JJ, Palacios, DM, Dunn, DC, Halpin, PN, Viehman, S, Moxley, J, Cleary, J, Bailey, H, Bograd, SJ, Becker, EA, Gardner, B, Hartog, JR, Hazen, EL, Ferguson, MC, Forney, KA, Kinlan, BP, Oliver, MJ, Perretti, CT, Ridoux, V, Teo, SLH, and Winship, AJ. "Temporal resolutions in species distribution models of highly mobile marine animals: Recommendations for ecologists and managers." Diversity and Distributions 23, no. 10 (October 1, 2017): 1098-1109. Full Text
  - Sutton, TT, Clark, MR, Dunn, DC, Halpin, PN, Rogers, AD, Guinotte, J, Bograd, SJ, Angel, MV, Perez, JAA, Wishner, K, Haedrich, RL, Lindsay, DJ, Drazen, JC, Vereshchaka, A, Piatkowski, U, Morato, T, Błachowiak-Samołyk, K, Robison, BH, Gjerde, KM, Pierrot-Bults, A, Bernal, P, Reygondeau, G, and Heino, M. "A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone." Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 126 (August 1, 2017): 85-102. (Review) Full Text
  - Morato, T, Miller, PI, Dunn, DC, Nicol, SJ, Bowcott, J, and Halpin, PN. "A perspective on the importance of oceanic fronts in promoting aggregation of visitors to seamounts." Fish and Fisheries 17, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 1227-1233. Full Text
  - Bax, NJ, Cleary, J, Donnelly, B, Dunn, DC, Dunstan, PK, Fuller, M, and Halpin, PN. "Results of efforts by the Convention on Biological Diversity to describe ecologically or biologically significant marine areas." Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology 30, no. 3 (June 2016): 571-581. Full Text
  - Dunn, DC, Moxley, JH, and Halpin, PN. "Temperature-based targeting in a multispecies fishery under climate change." Fisheries Oceanography 25, no. 2 (March 1, 2016): 105-118. Full Text
  - Wedding, LM, Maxwell, SM, Hyrenbach, D, Dunn, DC, Roberts, JJ, Briscoe, D, Hines, E, and Halpin, PN. "Geospatial approaches to support pelagic conservation planning and adaptive management." Endangered Species Research 30, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 1-9. Full Text
  - Dunn, DC, Maxwell, SM, Boustany, AM, and Halpin, PN. "Dynamic ocean management increases the efficiency and efficacy of fisheries management." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113, no. 3 (January 4, 2016): 668-673. Full Text
  - Bjorkland, R, Dunn, DC, McClure, M, Jannot, J, Bellman, MA, Gleason, M, and Schiffers, K. "Spatiotemporal patterns of rockfish bycatch in US west coast groundfish fisheries: opportunities for reducing incidental catch of depleted species." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72, no. 12 (December 2015): 1835-1846. Full Text
  - Maxwell, SM, Hazen, EL, Lewison, RL, Dunn, DC, Bailey, H, Bograd, SJ, Briscoe, DK, Fossette, S, Hobday, AJ, Bennett, M, Benson, S, Caldwell, MR, Costa, DP, Dewar, H, Eguchi, T, Hazen, L, Kohin, S, Sippel, T, and Crowder, LB. "Dynamic ocean management: Defining and conceptualizing real-time management of the ocean." Marine Policy 58 (August 2015): 42-50. Full Text
  - Lewison, R, Hobday, AJ, Maxwell, S, Hazen, E, Hartog, JR, Dunn, DC, Briscoe, D, Fossette, S, O'Keefe, CE, Barnes, M, Abecassis, M, Bograd, S, Bethoney, ND, Bailey, H, Wiley, D, Andrews, S, Hazen, L, and Crowder, LB. "Dynamic Ocean Management: Identifying the Critical Ingredients of Dynamic Approaches to Ocean Resource Management." Bioscience 65, no. 5 (May 1, 2015): 486-498. Full Text
  - Ban, NC, Maxwell, SM, Dunn, DC, Hobday, AJ, Bax, NJ, Ardron, J, Gjerde, KM, Game, ET, Devillers, R, Kaplan, DM, Dunstan, PK, Halpin, PN, and Pressey, RL. "Better integration of sectoral planning and management approaches for the interlinked ecology of the open oceans." Marine Policy 49 (November 2014): 127-136. Full Text
  - Lewison, RL, Crowder, LB, Wallace, BP, Moore, JE, Cox, T, Zydelis, R, McDonald, S, DiMatteo, A, Dunn, DC, Kot, CY, Bjorkland, R, Kelez, S, Soykan, C, Stewart, KR, Sims, M, Boustany, A, Read, AJ, Halpin, P, Nichols, WJ, and Safina, C. "Global patterns of marine mammal, seabird, and sea turtle bycatch reveal taxa-specific and cumulative megafauna hotspots." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111, no. 14 (April 2014): 5271-5276. Full Text
  - Ban, NC, Bax, NJ, Gjerde, KM, Devillers, R, Dunn, DC, Dunstan, PK, Hobday, AJ, Maxwell, SM, Kaplan, DM, Pressey, RL, Ardron, JA, Game, ET, and Halpin, PN. "Systematic conservation planning: A better recipe for managing the high seas for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use." Conservation Letters 7, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 41-54. Full Text
  - Ban, NC, Maxwell, SM, Dunn, DC, Hobday, AJ, Bax, NJ, Ardron, J, Gjerde, KM, Game, ET, Devillers, R, Kaplan, DM, Dunstan, PK, Halpin, PN, and Pressey, RL. "Better integration of sectoral planning and management approaches for the interlinked ecology of the open oceans." Marine Policy 49 (January 1, 2014): 127-136. Full Text
  - Dunn, DC, Ardron, J, Bax, N, Bernal, P, Cleary, J, Cresswell, I, Donnelly, B, Dunstan, P, Gjerde, K, Johnson, D, Kaschner, K, Lascelles, B, Rice, J, von Nordheim, H, Wood, L, and Halpin, PN. "The Convention on Biological Diversity's Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas: Origins, development, and current status." Marine Policy (2014).
  - Dunn, DC, Boustany, AM, Roberts, JJ, Brazer, E, Sanderson, M, Gardner, B, and Halpin, PN. "Empirical move-on rules to inform fishing strategies: A New England case study." Fish and Fisheries 15, no. 3 (January 1, 2014): 359-375. Full Text
  - Merrie, A, Dunn, DC, Metian, M, Boustany, AM, Takei, Y, Elferink, AO, Ota, Y, Christensen, V, Halpin, PN, and Österblom, H. "An ocean of surprises - trends in human use, unexpected dynamics and governance challenges in areas beyond national jurisdiction." Global Environmental Change 27, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 19-31. Full Text
  - Dunn, DC, Boustany, AM, Roberts, JJ, Brazer, E, Sanderson, M, Gardner, B, and Halpin, PN. "Empirical move-on rules to inform fishing strategies: A New England case study." Fish and Fisheries (2013).
  - Curtice, C, Dunn, DC, Roberts, JJ, Carr, SD, and Halpin, PN. "Why ecosystem-based management may fail without changes to tool development and financing." Bioscience 62, no. 5 (May 1, 2012): 508-515. Full Text
  - Garcia, SM, Kolding, J, Rice, J, Rochet, M-J, Zhou, S, Arimoto, T, Beyer, JE, Borges, L, Bundy, A, Dunn, D, Fulton, EA, Hall, M, Heino, M, Law, R, Makino, M, Rijnsdorp, AD, Simard, F, and Smith, ADM. "Conservation. Reconsidering the consequences of selective fisheries." Science (New York, N.Y.) 335, no. 6072 (March 2012): 1045-1047. Full Text
  - Van Dover, CL, Smith, CR, Ardron, J, Dunn, D, Gjerde, K, Levin, L, Smith, S, Arnaud-Haond, S, Beaudoin, Y, Bezaury, J, Boland, G, Billett, D, Carr, M, Cherkashov, G, Cook, A, DeLeo, F, Fisher, CR, Godet, L, Halpin, P, Lodge, M, Menot, L, Miller, K, Naudts, L, Nugent, C, Pendleton, L, Plouviez, S, Rowden, AA, Santos, RS, Shank, T, Tao, C, Tawake, A, Thurnherr, A, and Treude, T. "Designating networks of chemosynthetic ecosystem reserves in the deep sea." Marine Policy 36, no. 2 (March 1, 2012): 378-381. Full Text
  - Curtice, C, Schick, RS, Dunn, DC, and Halpin, PN. "Home range analysis of Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi) based on colony, age, and sex." Aquatic Mammals 37, no. 3 (December 1, 2011): 360-371. Full Text
  - Gilman, E, Dunn, D, Read, A, Hyrenbach, KD, and Warner, R. "Designing criteria suites to identify discrete and networked sites of high value across manifestations of biodiversity." Biodiversity and Conservation 20, no. 14 (December 2011): 3363-3383. Full Text
  - Zydelis, R, Lewison, RL, Shaffer, SA, Moore, JE, Boustany, AM, Roberts, JJ, Sims, M, Dunn, DC, Best, BD, Tremblay, Y, Kappes, MA, Halpin, PN, Costa, DP, and Crowder, LB. "Dynamic habitat models: using telemetry data to project fisheries bycatch." Proceedings. Biological Sciences 278, no. 1722 (November 2011): 3191-3200. Full Text
  - Dunn, DC, Boustany, AM, and Halpin, PN. "Spatio-temporal management of fisheries to reduce by-catch and increase fishing selectivity." Fish and Fisheries 12, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 110-119. Full Text
  - Roberts, JJ, Best, BD, Dunn, DC, Treml, EA, and Halpin, PN. "Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools: An integrated framework for ecological geoprocessing with ArcGIS, Python, R, MATLAB, and C++." Environmental Modelling and Software 25, no. 10 (October 1, 2010): 1197-1207. Full Text
  - Dunn, DC, Stewart, K, Bjorkland, RH, Haughton, M, Singh-Renton, S, Lewison, R, Thorne, L, and Halpin, PN. "A regional analysis of coastal and domestic fishing effort in the wider Caribbean." Fisheries Research 102, no. 1-2 (February 1, 2010): 60-68. Full Text
  - Stewart, KR, Lewison, RL, Dunn, DC, Bjorkland, RH, Kelez, S, Halpin, PN, and Crowder, LB. "Characterizing fishing effort and spatial extent of coastal fisheries." Plos One 5, no. 12 (January 2010): e14451-null. Full Text
  - Dunn, DC, and Halpin, PN. "Rugosity-based regional modeling of hard-bottom habitat." Marine Ecology Progress Series 377 (March 18, 2009): 1-11. Full Text
  - Dunn, DC, Kot, CY, and Halpin, PN. "A comparison of methods to spatially represent pelagic longline fishing effort in catch and bycatch studies." Fisheries Research 92, no. 2-3 (August 2008): 268-276. Full Text
  - Eckert, SA, Moore, JE, Dunn, DC, van Buiten, RS, Eckert, KL, and Halpin, PN. "Modeling loggerhead turtle movement in the Mediterranean: importance of body size and oceanography." Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America 18, no. 2 (March 2008): 290-308. Full Text
  - Koch, V, Mazon Suastegui, JM, Sinsel, F, Robles Mungaray, M, and Dunn, D. "Lion's paw scallop (Nodipecten subnodosus, Sowerby 1835) aquaculture in Bahia Magdalena, Mexico: effects of population density and season on juvenile growth and mortality." Aquaculture Research 36, no. 5 (March 2005): 505-512. Full Text
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