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Jessica Zamborain-Mason

Assistant Professor, Marine Science

Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division

Program Affiliations

Research Interests

Jessica Zamborain-Mason is a quantitative marine scientist who uses interdisciplinary data science approaches and collaboration to assess and enhance the sustainability of coastal and marine ecosystems, and their services to society, in the context of environmental change. Her team integrates novel statistical and mathematical models with remote sensing and observational data to develop timely context-specific sustainable reference points (i.e., quantifiable targets or limits we may want to achieve or avoid with management) for multispecies assemblages and assess their sustainability status from multiple ecological and social dimensions (e.g., ecological function, fisheries production, economic revenue, nutrition security and public health). They focus on coral reef fisheries at different spatial scales (e.g., globally and locally), and under a diversity of geographic, environmental and socio-economic contexts, Jessica's goal is to understand how marine ecosystems work when exposed to a rapidly changing environment, develop innovative climate-resilient fisheries and management measures to enhance their sustainability, and promote the multiple ecosystem services marine systems provide to the Kingdom and millions of people around the globe.

Keyword tag icon fisheries coral reefs statistical ecological modelling

Publications

  • Zamborain-Mason, J., Cinner, J. E., MacNeil, M. A., Graham, N. A., Hoey, A. S., ... & Connolly. S. R. (2023). Sustainable reference points for multispecies coral reef fisheries. Nature Communications.

  • Cinner, J. E., Zamborain-Mason, J., Gurney, G. G., Graham, N. A., MacNeil, M. A., Hoey, A. S., ... & Maina, J. M. (2020). Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world. Science, 368(6488), 307-311.

  • Zamborain-Mason, J., Viana, D., Nicholas, K., Passarelli, S.,... & Golden C. (2023). A decision framework for selecting critically important nutrients from aquatic foods. Current Environmental Health Reports.

  • Zamborain-Mason, J., Connolly. S. R., MacNeil, M. A., Graham, N. A., ... & Cinner, J. E. (2025). Downscaling global benchmarks to assess the sustainability of local fisheries. Conservation Biology.

  • Zamborain-Mason, J., Marwaha, N., Yoo, S. H., Hicks, C. C., Robinson, J. P., Abucay, L. R., ... & Golden, C. D. (2025). The nutritional value of invertebrate aquatic foods. bioRxiv, 2025-03.