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During the past 15 years Mike McGinnis has taught a diverse array of interdisciplinary courses that focus on environmental science, public policy, politics, ethics and values studies. He was a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon (1992-1994) and currently teaches for the Graduate School of Environmental Science and Management, the Environmental Studies Program, and Political Science Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB,1995 – present). McGinnis has approximately ten years experience teaching 6 courses per year or more at UCSB. His courses emphasise theory and practice and the nexus between the physical and social sciences in environmental policy, management and planning. Graduate and undergraduate courses that he has taught often include case study and academic material on: coastal marine policy; biodiversity protection; watershed and water quality management; collaborative decision-making; ecosystem-based planning; models of public policy analysis; policy instruments and tools, and domestic and international resource management. Since 1992, his primary research focus has been on the development of large-scale environmental policy with particular interest in the role of science in ecosystem-based management of rivers, watersheds, coastal and marine areas, including islands. He has published over 60 articles in international journals and has written a number of essays and book chapters on the subject of large-scale environmental policy, planning, and decision-making. McGinnis has been a principle investigator on a number of collaborative and interdisciplinary studies that received support from three awards from the National Science Foundation, two awards from the US Department of the Interior, the National Marine Sanctuaries Program, and other funding agencies and foundations. McGinnis has co-authored a number of government and non-governmental reports on the subject of environmental policy and law that address important issues and concerns, such as the historical development of interdisciplinary ecosystem-based planning, the rise of contemporary watershed planning, the role of science and values in ocean and coastal policymaking, and place-based ecological and social movements. His research includes collaboration with colleagues in the fields of economics, anthropology, ecology, biology, and politics. McGinnis has also been the Director of UCSB’s Ocean and Coastal Policy Center since 1995. More recently, he received a Fulbright Scholar Award (2008) to teach and conduct research in Montenegro and the Balkans. In addition to this teaching and research experience, McGinnis has been the primary consultant and advisor to state and federal resource agencies in the US and has contributed to a number of technical and environmental documents and plans. He has provided socio-economic, legal and policy guidance to resource agencies in a number of large-scale management plans for marine ecosystems, protected natural areas, coastal watersheds, creeks, wetlands, open spaces and island ecosystems. This professional experience is integrated into the courses that he teaches, “so that I can bring a ‘real world’ understanding into the classroom setting – I feel that it is important that students in the field of environmental studies understand what is expected from them by government agencies, non-government organisations and private businesses when they complete their education.” McGinnis is a surfer who lives by his personal mottos, ‘Join the blue party for a blue planet’ and ‘Turn to the mountains - think of the sea’. He wears two rings, one for the love of his wife, the second, a blue one, for his love of the sea.
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