Jesse Cleary
@clearygeo.bsky.social
Geographer and data scientist in the Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab (MGEL) at Duke University. We apply spatial technologies to issues in marine ecology and ocean conservation: @duke-mgel.bsky.social
Marine GIS Instructor: @dukeenvironment.bsky.social
Marine GIS Instructor: @dukeenvironment.bsky.social
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🌊 What is an EBSA—and Why Does It Matter?
MGEL researchers co-authored a global synthesis of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) analyzing 338 EBSAs described across 15 regional workshops—covering 75% of the global ocean
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
MGEL researchers co-authored a global synthesis of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) analyzing 338 EBSAs described across 15 regional workshops—covering 75% of the global ocean
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
What is an ecologically or biologically significant area? - npj Ocean Sustainability
npj Ocean Sustainability - What is an ecologically or biologically significant area?
www.nature.com
July 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🌊 What is an EBSA—and Why Does It Matter?
MGEL researchers co-authored a global synthesis of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) analyzing 338 EBSAs described across 15 regional workshops—covering 75% of the global ocean
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
MGEL researchers co-authored a global synthesis of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) analyzing 338 EBSAs described across 15 regional workshops—covering 75% of the global ocean
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Reposted by Jesse Cleary
🔍 Ask Global Fishing Watch:
Our new Preferential Access Area layer helps monitor activity in coastal waters where small-scale fishers have priority access.
Developed with @@marineuas.bsky.social @duke-university.bsky.social, it supports transparency and sustainable fishing 🌊
https://bit.ly/47mp7F3
Our new Preferential Access Area layer helps monitor activity in coastal waters where small-scale fishers have priority access.
Developed with @@marineuas.bsky.social @duke-university.bsky.social, it supports transparency and sustainable fishing 🌊
https://bit.ly/47mp7F3
October 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🔍 Ask Global Fishing Watch:
Our new Preferential Access Area layer helps monitor activity in coastal waters where small-scale fishers have priority access.
Developed with @@marineuas.bsky.social @duke-university.bsky.social, it supports transparency and sustainable fishing 🌊
https://bit.ly/47mp7F3
Our new Preferential Access Area layer helps monitor activity in coastal waters where small-scale fishers have priority access.
Developed with @@marineuas.bsky.social @duke-university.bsky.social, it supports transparency and sustainable fishing 🌊
https://bit.ly/47mp7F3
Reposted by Jesse Cleary
🌊Mapping the Highways of the Sea🌍
New study featuring contributions from MGEL + global partners presents the first cross-taxa global map of marine megafauna migration.
Whales, turtles, seabirds & fish connect ocean regions—now, we can map those links.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New study featuring contributions from MGEL + global partners presents the first cross-taxa global map of marine megafauna migration.
Whales, turtles, seabirds & fish connect ocean regions—now, we can map those links.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Marine megavertebrate migrations connect the global ocean - Nature Communications
Animal migrations are extensive and crucial for ecosystem health but are in decline. This study identifies 1,787 sites and links among them for 109 marine species, highlighting the need for internatio...
www.nature.com
May 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
🌊Mapping the Highways of the Sea🌍
New study featuring contributions from MGEL + global partners presents the first cross-taxa global map of marine megafauna migration.
Whales, turtles, seabirds & fish connect ocean regions—now, we can map those links.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New study featuring contributions from MGEL + global partners presents the first cross-taxa global map of marine megafauna migration.
Whales, turtles, seabirds & fish connect ocean regions—now, we can map those links.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Jesse Cleary
Transparency is at the heart of everything we do - on the water, in policy and across digital spaces.
That’s why we’ve joined Bluesky. As more researchers, advocates and institutions move here, we’re showing up to share open data, science and stories that power ocean protection.
That’s why we’ve joined Bluesky. As more researchers, advocates and institutions move here, we’re showing up to share open data, science and stories that power ocean protection.
May 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Transparency is at the heart of everything we do - on the water, in policy and across digital spaces.
That’s why we’ve joined Bluesky. As more researchers, advocates and institutions move here, we’re showing up to share open data, science and stories that power ocean protection.
That’s why we’ve joined Bluesky. As more researchers, advocates and institutions move here, we’re showing up to share open data, science and stories that power ocean protection.
Reposted by Jesse Cleary
MGEL researchers co-authored the first global assessment of Preferential Access Areas—a critical but overlooked spatial tool to secure ocean space for small-scale fisheries
📖 Read the study: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SmallScaleFisheries #OceanGovernance #BlueEconomy
📖 Read the study: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SmallScaleFisheries #OceanGovernance #BlueEconomy
A global assessment of preferential access areas for small-scale fisheries - npj Ocean Sustainability
npj Ocean Sustainability - A global assessment of preferential access areas for small-scale fisheries
www.nature.com
April 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
MGEL researchers co-authored the first global assessment of Preferential Access Areas—a critical but overlooked spatial tool to secure ocean space for small-scale fisheries
📖 Read the study: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SmallScaleFisheries #OceanGovernance #BlueEconomy
📖 Read the study: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#SmallScaleFisheries #OceanGovernance #BlueEconomy
Reposted by Jesse Cleary
Big thanks to our participants at last week's joint GOBI-IUCN HSSG workshop on 'Building ecologically representative and well-connected High Seas ABMT networks' - 3 days of intense discussions, scientific debate and enthusiastic brainstorming. Read all about it here 👉 tinyurl.com/yczxadkw
March 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Big thanks to our participants at last week's joint GOBI-IUCN HSSG workshop on 'Building ecologically representative and well-connected High Seas ABMT networks' - 3 days of intense discussions, scientific debate and enthusiastic brainstorming. Read all about it here 👉 tinyurl.com/yczxadkw
Reposted by Jesse Cleary
A work-related post: we just wrote an article highlighting the difference between the journals cited by the US federal government to support listing endangered species and the high-impact factor journals that academia values. Check it out! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #conservation
Role of low‐impact‐factor journals in conservation implementation
Academic review, promotion, and tenure processes place a premium on frequent publication in high-impact factor (IF) journals. However, conservation often relies on species-specific information that i...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 12, 2024 at 3:33 PM
A work-related post: we just wrote an article highlighting the difference between the journals cited by the US federal government to support listing endangered species and the high-impact factor journals that academia values. Check it out! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #conservation