Challenges and opportunities for sustaining coastal wetlands and oyster reefs in the southeastern United States

Journal of Environmental Management · 2021 · 22 citations

• Geography
• Fishery
• Environmental science

Turning Chutes into Ladders for Women Faculty: A Review and Roadmap for Equity in Academia

Journal of Women s Health · 2020 · 146 citations

• Political Science
• Political Science
• Sociology

Despite significant progress in recent decades, the recruitment, advancement, and promotion of women in academia remain low. Women represent a large portion of the talent pool in academia, and receive >50% of all PhDs, but this has not yet translated into sustained representation in faculty and leadership positions. Research indicates that women encounter numerous "chutes" that remove them from academia or provide setbacks to promotion at all stages of their careers. These include the perception that women are less competent and their outputs of lesser quality, implicit bias in teaching evaluations and grant funding decisions, and lower citation rates. This review aims to (1) synthesize the "chutes" that impede the careers of women faculty, and (2) provide feasible recommendations, or "ladders" for addressing these issues at all career levels. Enacting policies that function as "ladders" rather than "chutes" for academic women is essential to even the playing field, achieve gender equity, and foster economic, societal, and cultural benefits of academia.

Sea-level rise and the emergence of a keystone grazer alter the geomorphic evolution and ecology of southeast US salt marshes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 79 citations

• Ecology
• Geography
• Environmental science

functions as a keystone species that is driving dynamic, landscape-scale changes in salt-marsh geomorphic evolution, spatial organization, and species interactions.