Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Duke University 2014
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Research Professor in the Division of Marine Science and Conservat, Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment 2017 - 2019
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • JUL 10, 2018

    Nicholas School of the Environment

    A Strategy for Making 'No-Mining Zones' in the Deep Sea
• Research
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  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
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Levin, Lisa A., Chih-Lin Wei, Daniel C. Dunn, Diva J. Amon, Oliver S. Ashford, William W. L. Cheung, Ana Colaço, et al. “Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep-sea resource extraction.” Global Change Biology 26, no. 9 (September 2020): 4664–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15223.
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    • Tittensor, Derek P., Maria Beger, Kristina Boerder, Daniel G. Boyce, Rachel D. Cavanagh, Aurelie Cosandey-Godin, Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, et al. “Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean.” Science Advances 5, no. 11 (November 27, 2019): eaay9969. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay9969.
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    • Dunn, Daniel C., Autumn-Lynn Harrison, Corrie Curtice, Sarah DeLand, Ben Donnelly, Ei Fujioka, Eleanor Heywood, et al. “The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy.” Proceedings. Biological Sciences 286, no. 1911 (September 25, 2019): 20191472. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1472.
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    • Crespo, Guillermo Ortuño, Daniel C. Dunn, Matthew Gianni, Kristina Gjerde, Glen Wright, and Patrick N. Halpin. “High-seas fish biodiversity is slipping through the governance net.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, no. 9 (September 2019): 1273–76. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0981-4.
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    • Hays, Graeme C., Helen Bailey, Steven J. Bograd, W Don Bowen, Claudio Campagna, Ruth H. Carmichael, Paolo Casale, et al. “Translating Marine Animal Tracking Data into Conservation Policy and Management.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 34, no. 5 (May 2019): 459–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2019.01.009.
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    • Bax, N. J., P. Miloslavich, F. E. Muller-Karger, V. Allain, W. Appeltans, S. D. Batten, L. Benedetti-Cecchi, et al. “A response to scientific and societal needs for marine biological observations.” Frontiers in Marine Science 6, no. JUL (January 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00395.
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    • Tanhua, T., A. McCurdy, A. Fischer, W. Appeltans, N. Bax, K. Currie, B. Deyoung, et al. “What we have learned from the framework for ocean observing: Evolution of the global ocean observing system.” Frontiers in Marine Science 6, no. AUG (January 1, 2019). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00471.
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    • Wright, G., K. M. Gjerde, D. E. Johnson, A. Finkelstein, M. A. Ferreira, D. C. Dunn, M. R. Chaves, and A. Grehan. “Marine spatial planning in areas beyond national jurisdiction.” Marine Policy, January 1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.12.003.
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    • Crespo, Guillermo Ortuño, Daniel C. Dunn, Gabriel Reygondeau, Kristina Boerder, Boris Worm, William Cheung, Derek P. Tittensor, and Patrick N. Halpin. “The environmental niche of the global high seas pelagic longline fleet.” Science Advances 4, no. 8 (August 8, 2018): eaat3681. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat3681.
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    • Dunn, Daniel C., Cindy L. Van Dover, Ron J. Etter, Craig R. Smith, Lisa A. Levin, Telmo Morato, Ana Colaço, et al. “A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges from deep-sea mining.” Science Advances 4, no. 7 (July 4, 2018): eaar4313. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar4313.
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    • Dunn, D. C., C. Jablonicky, G. O. Crespo, D. J. McCauley, D. A. Kroodsma, K. Boerder, K. M. Gjerde, and P. N. Halpin. “Empowering high seas governance with satellite vessel tracking data.” Fish and Fisheries 19, no. 4 (July 1, 2018): 729–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12285.
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    • Muller-Karger, F. E., P. Miloslavich, N. J. Bax, S. Simmons, M. J. Costello, I. S. Pinto, G. Canonico, et al. “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). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2018.00211.
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    • Miloslavich, Patricia, Nicholas J. Bax, Samantha E. Simmons, Eduardo Klein, Ward Appeltans, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Melissa Andersen Garcia, et al. “Essential ocean variables for global sustained observations of biodiversity and ecosystem changes.” Global Change Biology, April 5, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14108.
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    • Johnson, D. E., C. Barrio Froján, P. J. Turner, P. Weaver, V. Gunn, D. C. Dunn, P. Halpin, N. J. Bax, and P. K. Dunstan. “Reviewing the EBSA process: Improving on success.” Marine Policy 88 (February 1, 2018): 75–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.11.014.
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    • Crespo, G. O., and D. C. Dunn. “A review of the impacts of fisheries on open-ocean ecosystems.” Ices Journal of Marine Science 74, no. 9 (December 1, 2017): 2283–97. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx084.
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    • Mannocci, L., A. M. Boustany, J. J. Roberts, D. M. Palacios, D. C. Dunn, P. N. Halpin, S. Viehman, et al. “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. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12609.
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    • Sutton, T. T., M. R. Clark, D. C. Dunn, P. N. Halpin, A. D. Rogers, J. Guinotte, S. J. Bograd, et al. “A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone.” Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 126 (August 1, 2017): 85–102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.05.006.
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    • Morato, T., P. I. Miller, D. C. Dunn, S. J. Nicol, J. Bowcott, and P. N. Halpin. “A perspective on the importance of oceanic fronts in promoting aggregation of visitors to seamounts.” Fish and Fisheries 17, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 1227–33. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12126.
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    • Bax, Nicholas J., Jesse Cleary, Ben Donnelly, Daniel C. Dunn, Piers K. Dunstan, Mike Fuller, and Patrick N. Halpin. “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): 571–81. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12649.
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    • Dunn, D. C., J. H. Moxley, and P. N. Halpin. “Temperature-based targeting in a multispecies fishery under climate change.” Fisheries Oceanography 25, no. 2 (March 1, 2016): 105–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.12138.
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    • Wedding, L. M., S. M. Maxwell, D. Hyrenbach, D. C. Dunn, J. J. Roberts, D. Briscoe, E. Hines, and P. N. Halpin. “Geospatial approaches to support pelagic conservation planning and adaptive management.” Endangered Species Research 30, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00716.
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    • Dunn, Daniel C., Sara M. Maxwell, Andre M. Boustany, and Patrick N. Halpin. “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): 668–73. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1513626113.
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    • Maxwell, S. M., E. L. Hazen, R. L. Lewison, D. C. Dunn, H. Bailey, S. J. Bograd, D. K. Briscoe, et al. “Dynamic ocean management: Defining and conceptualizing real-time management of the ocean.” Marine Policy 58 (August 1, 2015): 42–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2015.03.014.
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    • Bjorkland, R., D. C. Dunn, M. McClure, J. Jannot, M. A. Bellman, M. Gleason, and K. Schiffers. “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 (June 29, 2015): 1835–46. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2014-0242.
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    • Lewison, R., A. J. Hobday, S. Maxwell, E. Hazen, J. R. Hartog, D. C. Dunn, D. Briscoe, et al. “Dynamic ocean management: Identifying the critical ingredients of dynamic approaches to ocean resource management.” Bioscience 65, no. 5 (January 1, 2015): 486–98. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biv018.
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    • Lewison, Rebecca L., Larry B. Crowder, Bryan P. Wallace, Jeffrey E. Moore, Tara Cox, Ramunas Zydelis, Sara McDonald, et al. “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): 5271–76. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1318960111.
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    • Ban, N. C., N. J. Bax, K. M. Gjerde, R. Devillers, D. C. Dunn, P. K. Dunstan, A. J. Hobday, et al. “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. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12010.
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    • Ban, N. C., S. M. Maxwell, D. C. Dunn, A. J. Hobday, N. J. Bax, J. Ardron, K. M. Gjerde, et al. “Better integration of sectoral planning and management approaches for the interlinked ecology of the open oceans.” Marine Policy 49 (January 1, 2014): 127–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2013.11.024.
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    • Dunn, D. C., A. M. Boustany, J. J. Roberts, E. Brazer, M. Sanderson, B. Gardner, and P. N. Halpin. “Empirical move-on rules to inform fishing strategies: A New England case study.” Fish and Fisheries 15, no. 3 (January 1, 2014): 359–75. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12019.
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    • Dunn, D. C., J. Ardron, N. Bax, P. Bernal, J. Cleary, I. Cresswell, B. Donnelly, et al. “The Convention on Biological Diversity's Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas: Origins, development, and current status.” Marine Policy, 2014.
    • Merrie, A., D. C. Dunn, M. Metian, A. M. Boustany, Y. Takei, A. O. Elferink, Y. Ota, V. Christensen, P. N. Halpin, and H. Österblom. “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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.012.
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    • Ban, N. C., S. M. Maxwell, D. C. Dunn, A. J. Hobday, N. J. Bax, J. Ardron, K. M. Gjerde, et al. “Better integration of sectoral planning and management approaches for the interlinked ecology of the open oceans.” Marine Policy, 2013.
    • Dunn, D. C., A. M. Boustany, J. J. Roberts, E. Brazer, M. Sanderson, B. Gardner, and P. N. Halpin. “Empirical move-on rules to inform fishing strategies: A New England case study.” Fish and Fisheries, 2013.
    • Curtice, C., D. C. Dunn, J. J. Roberts, S. D. Carr, and P. N. Halpin. “Why ecosystem-based management may fail without changes to tool development and financing.” Bioscience 62, no. 5 (May 1, 2012): 508–15. https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.5.13.
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    • Garcia, S. M., J. Kolding, J. Rice, M. -. J. Rochet, S. Zhou, T. Arimoto, J. E. Beyer, et al. “Conservation. Reconsidering the consequences of selective fisheries.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335, no. 6072 (March 2012): 1045–47. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1214594.
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    • Van Dover, C. L., C. R. Smith, J. Ardron, D. Dunn, K. Gjerde, L. Levin, S. Smith, et al. “Designating networks of chemosynthetic ecosystem reserves in the deep sea.” Marine Policy 36, no. 2 (March 1, 2012): 378–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2011.07.002.
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    • Curtice, C., R. S. Schick, D. C. Dunn, and P. N. Halpin. “Home range analysis of Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi) based on colony, age, and sex.” Aquatic Mammals 37, no. 3 (December 1, 2011): 360–71. https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.37.3.2011.360.
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    • Gilman, Eric, Daniel Dunn, Andrew Read, K David Hyrenbach, and Robin Warner. “Designing criteria suites to identify discrete and networked sites of high value across manifestations of biodiversity.” Biodiversity and Conservation 20, no. 14 (December 2011): 3363–83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-011-0116-y.
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    • Zydelis, Ramūnas, Rebecca L. Lewison, Scott A. Shaffer, Jeffrey E. Moore, Andre M. Boustany, Jason J. Roberts, Michelle Sims, et al. “Dynamic habitat models: using telemetry data to project fisheries bycatch.” Proceedings. Biological Sciences 278, no. 1722 (November 2011): 3191–3200. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0330.
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    • Dunn, D. C., A. M. Boustany, and P. N. Halpin. “Spatio-temporal management of fisheries to reduce by-catch and increase fishing selectivity.” Fish and Fisheries 12, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 110–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00388.x.
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    • Stewart, Kelly R., Rebecca L. Lewison, Daniel C. Dunn, Rhema H. Bjorkland, Shaleyla Kelez, Patrick N. Halpin, and Larry B. Crowder. “Characterizing fishing effort and spatial extent of coastal fisheries.” Plos One 5, no. 12 (December 29, 2010): e14451. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014451.
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    • Roberts, J. J., B. D. Best, D. C. Dunn, E. A. Treml, and P. N. Halpin. “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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.03.029.
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    • Dunn, D. C., K. Stewart, R. H. Bjorkland, M. Haughton, S. Singh-Renton, R. Lewison, L. Thorne, and P. N. Halpin. “A regional analysis of coastal and domestic fishing effort in the wider Caribbean.” Fisheries Research 102, no. 1–2 (February 1, 2010): 60–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2009.10.010.
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    • Dunn, D. C., and P. N. Halpin. “Rugosity-based regional modeling of hard-bottom habitat.” Marine Ecology Progress Series 377 (March 18, 2009): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps07839.
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    • Dunn, D. C., C. Y. Kot, and P. N. Halpin. “A comparison of methods to spatially represent pelagic longline fishing effort in catch and bycatch studies.” Fisheries Research 92, no. 2–3 (August 1, 2008): 268–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2008.01.006.
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    • Eckert, Scott A., Jeffrey E. Moore, Daniel C. Dunn, Ricardo Sagarminaga van Buiten, Karen L. Eckert, and Patrick N. Halpin. “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. https://doi.org/10.1890/06-2107.1.
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    • Koch, V., J. M. Mazon Suastegui, F. Sinsel, M. Robles Mungaray, and D. Dunn. “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): 505–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2109.2005.01247.x.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • ENVIRON 899: Master's Project 2021
  • ENVIRON 593: Independent Studies and Projects 2020
  • ENVIRON 899: Master's Project 2020
  • ENVIRON 350S: Marine Science and Conservation Leadership 2019
  • ENVIRON 585: Fisheries Biogeography and Ecology 2019
  • ENVIRON 593: Independent Studies and Projects 2019
  • ENVIRON 899: Master's Project 2019
  • PUBPOL 280S: Marine Science and Conservation Leadership 2019

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