Gabrielle Carmine, Ph.D. 

Dr. Gabrielle Carmine is a marine sustainability scientist specializing in quantitative and geospatial analysis for ocean conservation solutions as an Earth Commons Academic Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University. Dr. Carmine’s work focuses on industrial fishing and identifying avenues to protect marine life from its impacts on the high seas, or the ~2/3 of the ocean lying beyond a nation’s exclusive economic zone. She is a recent PhD graduate from Duke University, where she was part of the Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, directed by Dr. Patrick N. Halpin. Her doctoral research examined how fishing on the high seas is conducted and led by corporate actors without appropriate accountability by regional international governing bodies (RFMOs), and the ways this state of affairs may negatively impact conservation of high seas biodiversity. Using geospatial analyses of satellite-derived apparent fishing activity, she quantified and examined high seas fisheries dynamics through their beneficial ownership, governance under RFMOs, and possible solutions through the recently agreed United Nations treaty for Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ). She engages actively in these governance mechanisms attending and presenting at UN meetings since 2019.