Smithsonian Marine Conservation Program

The Marine Conservation Lab, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Maryland conducts applied research to provide the knowledge, tools and technical support needed to secure and manage marine resources today and for future generations. We engage with communities, industry partners, NGOs and Governments to support science based decision making. We focus on conservation challenges with strong interests in marine reserve design, animal and human movement ecology and populations genetics. Our research helps to build solutions to critical problems facing the marine environment around the world including the Caribbean, Pacific ocean and the Andaman Sea. We hope you’ll contribute to this interactive forum and to our ongoing conversation about the work we do to further the Smithsonian's mission to increase and diffuse knowledge. While on-topic discussion is encouraged, we ask that you express yourself in a civil manner and treat other users with respect. The Smithsonian also monitors may remove posts consistent with its terms of use, as described at http://si.edu/Termsofuse -gen. Be aware that facebook is a third-party website with its own terms of use and privacy policy. The Smithsonian does not control facebook’s collection, use, or dissemination of information. To protect your privacy and the privacy of others, do not include any personally identifiable information that you do not wish to be made available to the general public. In addition, the Smithsonian may archive materials posted on this website pursuant to its document retention policies. By posting content, you are giving the Smithsonian and those authorized by the Smithsonian permission to use or modify it for any educational, promotional, or other standard museum purpose, in media of all kinds whether now known or later developed. Any data that users post on this site or that the Smithsonian collects from this site is subject to our terms of use and privacy policies which can be found at: http://www.si.edu/termsofuse/ and http://www.si.edu/privacy/. The Smithsonian also monitors posts on facebook consistent with its policy at http://si.edu/Termsofuse #/user-gen, and reserves the right to remove content in accordance with its Terms of Use.