Lorayne Meltzer
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Lorayne has explored, studied, admired and worked to protect marine and coastal landscapes for decades. As Director of the Kino Bay Center, Lorayne is active in collaborative conservation efforts in the Gulf of California. Lorayne coordinates the Center’s research, education and community outreach programs toward the realization of the mission and vision of Prescott College and the Kino Bay Center. Through courses taught at the Kino Bay Center, students from Prescott College and other institutions engage in field-based learning in collaboration with diverse community members and Center Staff. Lorayne’s her Marine Conservation classes, students learn firsthand about complex issues confronting marine and coastal environments. It is one thing to read in a book that 85% of everything caught on a shrimp trawler is discarded dead as by-catch back into the sea. “It is quite a different learning experience to be sorting through the by-catch on the deck of a trawler, working along fishermen whose livelihoods depend on destructive fisheries practices”.
Socially just and community-based and interdisciplinary environmental conservation
MARTINEZ REYES, F.J., DOLINSKI, L.A., MELZTER, L.R., CAMARENA GOMEZ, P.D.L. & OAS, N.L. 2024. Status of Craveri’s Murrelet Synthliboramphus craveri in the Midriff Islands, Gulf of California, Mexico. Marine Ornithology
Pérez-Puig, H., Heckel, G., & Meltzer, L. (2019). First Leucistic Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Sighting Registered in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Aquatic Mammals, 45(5), 507–512. https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.45.5.2019.507
Anderson, D.W., Godínez-Reyes, C.R., Velarde, E., Avalos-Tellez, R., Ramírez-Delgado, D., Moreno-Prado, H., Bowen, T., Gress, F., Trejo-Ventura, J., Adrean, L. & Meltzer, L. (2021). Brown Pelicans, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus (Aves: Pelecanidae): Five decades with ENSO, dynamic nesting, and contemporary breeding status in the Gulf of California. Ciencias Marinas, 43 (1): https://doi.org/10.7773/cm.v43i1.2710.
Meltzer, L. 2016. Marine and Coastal Conservation in the Eastern Midriff Region of the Gulf of California. Prescott College Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies, Prescott College Press. 44p.
Meltzer, L., Blinick, N.S., Fleishman, A.B., (2012). Management Implications of the Biodiversity and Socio-Economic Impacts of Shrimp Trawler By-Catch in Bahía de Kino, Sonora, México. PLoS ONE 7(6): e35609. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035609.
Meltzer, L., & Chang, J. O. (2006). Export market influence on the development of the Pacific shrimp fishery of Sonora, Mexico. Ocean & Coastal Management, 49(3-4), 222-235.