Research

+denotes equal first-authorship

Working Papers:

Frank, E.+ and Oremus, K.L.+ 2023.

Regulating Biological Resources: Lessons from Marine Fisheries in the United States 

(Revisions requested at The Review of Economic Studies)

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2023-63

Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4445576


Publications:

Hurley, B.M., Oremus, K.L., Birkenbach, A.M. 2024

Testing the waters: The state of U.S. shellfish permitting regulations

Accepted at Animal Frontiers.


Oremus, K.L., Rising, J., Ramesh, N., Ostroski, A. 2024. 

GO-FISH: Geolocated ocean-fishery identified spawning habitats

Scientific Data, 11(1), 1–7.

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Dobson, J.L., Kahley, M.R., Birkenbach, A.M., Oremus, K.L. 2023. 

Harassment and obstruction of observers in U.S. fisheries

Frontiers in Marine Science, 10.

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Oremus, K.L.+, Frank, E.G.+, Adelman, J.J., Cruz, S., Herndon, J., Sewell, B., Suatoni, L. 2023

Underfished or unwanted? Much blame cast upon fisheries policy may be misguided

Science, 380(6645) 585-588.

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Oremus, K.L., Bone, J., Costello, C., Molinos, J.G., Lee, A., Mangin, T., Salzman, J.  2020. 

Governance challenges for tropical nations losing fish species due to climate change

Nature Sustainability, 3(4), 277-280.

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Media coverage: University of Delaware press release, Anthropocene Magazine, New York Times


Oremus, K.L. 2019. 

Climate variability reduces employment in New England fisheries

PNAS, 116(52), 26444-26449.

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Media coverage: University of Delaware press release,  Cape Cod Times, Huffington Post, Bloomberg Radio, The Counter


Ramesh, N., Rising, J., Oremus, K.L. 2019. 

The small world of global marine fisheries: The cross-boundary consequences of larval dispersal

Science, 364(6446), 1192–1196.

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Media coverage: University of Delaware press release,  BBC radio, UN Dispatch, Courthouse News Service, Europa Press, Mongabay, ScienceNews, Earth.com


Meng, K.C.,  Oremus, K.L., Gaines, S. 2016.

New England Cod Collapse and the Climate

PLOS ONE, 11(7), e0158487. 

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Media coverage: Columbia press release, UCSB press release, Business Insider, Science Daily, Newswise, Eurasia Review


Oremus, K.L., Suatoni, L., Sewell, B. 2014. 

The requirement to rebuild US fish stocks: Is it working?

Marine Policy, 47, 71-56.

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 Brunner, R., Ali, F., Ambel, C.C., Aquino, P., Bautista, K., Bendandi, B., Karpati, A., Lai, K., Barbour-McKellar, J., Roos, M., Rudder, N., Soergel, E., Valencia, N. 2010. 

Back to its roots: REDD+ via the Copenhagen Accord

Reconsidering Development Journal, 1(1).

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