Bianca Santos, PhD

Bianca Santos, PhD

Ocean Governance & Marine Conservation

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Publications

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Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Briscoe, D. K., Crowder, L. B., Balazs, G. H., Seminoff, J. A., Abreu, A., Lee Hing, C. A., Kurita, M., Mori, M., Parker, D. M., Rice, M. R., Saito, T., Santos, B. S., Turner Tomaszewicz, C. N., Yamaguchi, N., & Polovina, J. J. 2025. Multi-decade northward shift of loggerhead sea turtle pelagic habitat as the eastern North Pacific Transition Zone becomes more oligotrophic. Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1513162.

  2. Santos, B.S., Hazen, E.L., Welch, H., Lezama-Ochoa, N., Block, B.A., Costa, D.P., Shaffer, S.A., Crowder, L.B. 2024. Beyond boundaries: Governance challenges in the management of Pacific predators under climate change. npj Ocean Sustainability 3(22).

  3. Rubin, N.B., Bower, E.R., Herbert, N., Santos, B., Wong-Parodi, G. 2023. Centering equity and sustainability in climate adaptation funding. Environmental Research: Climate 2(3):033001.

  4. Santos, B.S., Devereaux, S., Gjerde, K. M., Chand, K., Martinez, J., Crowder, L.B. 2022. The diverse benefits of biodiversity conservation in the global ocean beyond areas of national jurisdiction. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:1001240.

  5. Blondin, H.E., Armstrong, K., Hazen, E.L., Oestreich, W., Santos, B.S., Haulsee, D., Mikles, C., Knight, C., Bennett, A., Crowder, L.B. 2022. Land-dependent marine predators face climate-driven impacts on land and at sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 699: 181-198.

  6. Santos, B.S., and Wong-Parodi, G. News coverage of ocean issues and its impacts on public perceptions and conservation information-seeking of sea turtles. 2022. Conservation Science and Practice 4(4):e12650.

  7. Chapman, M.S., Oestreich, W.K., Frawley, T.H., Boettiger, C., Diver, S.W., Santos, B.S., Scoville, C., Armstrong, K., Blondin, H., Chand, K., Gjerde, K.M., Haulsee, D.E., Knight, C.J., Crowder, L.B. 2021. Promoting equity in the use of algorithms for high-seas conservation. One Earth 4(6):790-794.

  8. Santos, B.S., and Crowder, L.B. 2021. Online news coverage of sea turtles and their conservation. BioScience 71(3):305-313.

  9. Santana, F.N., Wagner, C.H., Berlin, N.R., Bloomfield L.S.P., Bower, E.R., Fischer, S.L., Santos, B.S., Smith, G.E., Muraida, C.T., Wong-Parodi, G. 2021. A path forward for qualitative research on sustainability in the COVID-19 pandemic. Sustainability Science 16:1061–1067.

  10. Boudin, E., Santos, B., Carcaillet, F. and Kaplan D. 2020. Virginia Beached Sea Turtle Survey. Frontier in Young Minds 8:38.

  11. Santos, B.S., Friedrichs, M.A.M., Rose, S., Barco, S.G., Kaplan, D.M. 2018. Likely locations of sea turtle stranding mortality using experimentally-calibrated, time and space-specific drift models. Biological Conservation 226:127-143.

  12. Santos, B.S., Kaplan, D.M., Friedrichs, M.A.M., Barco, S.G., Mansfield, K.L., Manning, J.P. 2018. Consequences of drift and carcass decomposition for estimating sea turtle mortality hotspots. Ecological Indicators 84:319-336.

  13. Lau, Y.T., Gambino, L., Santos, B., Espinosa, E.P., Allam, B. 2018. Transepithelial migration of Crassostrea virginica hemocytes and potential role in Perkinsus marinus pathogenesis. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 154:122-129.

  14. Lau, Y.T., Santos, B., Barbosa, M., Espinosa, E.P., Allam, B. 2018. Regulation of apoptosis-related genes during interactions between oyster hemocytes and the alveolate parasite Perkinsus marinus. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 83:180-189.

  15. Smits, A.P., Schindler, D.E., Armstrong, J.B., Brett, M.T., Carter, J.L., Santos, B.S. 2016. Thermal constraints on stream consumer responses to a marine resource subsidy. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73(11):1661-1671.

In Review

  1. Palacios-Abrantes, J., Santos, B.S., Frölicher, T.L., Reygondeau, G., Sumaila, U.R., Wabnitz, C.C.C., & Cheung, W.W.L. Climate change drives shifts in straddling fish stocks in the world’s ocean. Accepted at Science Advances

  2. Santos, B.S., Wabnitz, C., Singeo, A., Sato, I., Bernstein, M.S., Birkenmayer, K., Crowder, L.B., Ferguson, C.E., Fröelicher, T.L., Kaster, C., Lewis, S., Micheli, F., Raemakers, S., Reygondeau, G., Wong-Parodi, G. Integrating socio-ecological indicators to inform the sustainable management of small-scale fisheries in a changing climate.

  3. Santos, B.S., Ferguson, C.E., Mekilt Nagata, M., Singeo, A., Wabnitz, C., Wong-Parodi, G. An intersectional analysis of gender and marital status in shaping climate change perceptions and behavioral intentions among small-scale fishers in Palau.

In Preparation

  1. Santos, B.S., Devereaux, S., Crowder, L. Classifying bycatch mitigation measures across jurisdictions: A case study in the northeast Pacific.

Book Chapters

  1. Briscoe, D., Santos, B.S., Tuner Tomaszewicz, C.N., Crowder, L.B. 2025. One if by land, two if by sea: New approaches to conserving endangered sea turtles. In: Navigating our way to solutions in marine conservation (pg. 45–72), ed. Crowder, L.B. Open Book Publishers.

Reports

  1. FAO. 2019. Report of the Expert Meeting on Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures in the Marine Capture Fishery Sector, Rome, Italy, 07-10 May 2019. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Report No. 1301. Rome. 74 pp.