About

Dana I. Grieco, PhD Candidate

I am a doctoral candidate in Marine Science and Conservation at the Duke University Marine Lab, where I study how both climate change and conservation impact marine systems, with a particular focus on small-scale, data-poor fisheries. As an interdisciplinary scholar, I study the impacts of climate change on both local populations and fisheries ecology, and identify researched ways that conservation interventions may mitigate the negative impacts of climate change.

Before coming to Duke, I graduated from Villanova University in 2016 with a B.S. in biology and a marine ecology thesis. I spent the following three years working in marine ecological research and many facets of the fishing and dive industries in Cape Cod, MA, and the Bay Islands, Honduras.

I am passionate about creating equal access to academic research and knowledge, and strives to improve the system through teaching, outreach, and transparent and accessible research methods and outputs. I work hard to be a leader and project manager for the interdisciplinary Duke Bass Connections Marine Conservation Evidence and Synthesis research team and am on track to earn my Certificate of College Teaching.

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