Cassandra Brooks
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I actively engage with policy-makers and to inform the policy-making process. I mainly accomplished this through: writing and editing policy reports; presenting to science, environmental, and sustainable seafood organizations;  participating in meetings and workshops as an invited expert, and participating in policy meetings. In recent years, I participated in the Antarctica and the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020: The Monaco Assessment (2015), the Ross Sea region MPA Research and Monitoring Plan Workshop (2017), the Expert Workshop on Pelagic Spatial Planning for the eastern subantarctic region (Domains 4, 5 and 6) (2019), and the 1st Southern Ocean Regional Workshop for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2020). In 2021, I co-convened an expert workshop on United States research and monitoring in support of the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area. Since 2012, I have participated in meetings of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR). I have attended with the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and most recently with the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) delegation as the Deputy Chief Officer of the Standing Committee on the Antarctic Treaty System.


Glossy Policy Reports

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     Co-Editor (2022)
Lead Author (2012)
Lead Author (2012)
     Editor (2012)
Expert Reviewer (2016)
Other authored Technical Policy Reports 
Brooks, C.M., M. Dinniman, K. Bernard, J. Ashford & Z. Sylvester*. 2022. Connectivity of toothfish and krill in the Southern Ocean. SC-
     CAMLR-41/BG/27. 
Brooks, C.M., S. Becker*, C. Boyd, J. Handley, M-A Lea, B. Raymond, M. Santos & A. Spadone. 2022. Workshop on Identifying Key
      Biodiversity Areas for the Southern Ocean using tracking data. SC-CAMLR-41/BG/22. 
Chown, S.L., R.I. Leihy, T.R. Naish, C.M. Brooks, P. Convey, B.J. Henley, A.N. Mackintosh, L.M. Phillips, M.C. Kennicutt II & S.M. Grant
     (Eds.). 2022. Antarctic Climate Change and the  Environment: A Decadal Synopsis and Recommendations for Action. Scientific
     Committee on Antarctic Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom. www.scar.org
Sylvester, Z.*, C.Brooks, A. DuVivier, K. Krumhardt, L. Landrum, M. Holland, M. Long, S. Jenouvrier, L. Bourreau & S. Labrousse. 2022.
     Hot spots in the ice: revealing importance of polynyas for sustaining present and future Antarctic marine ecosystems. WG-EMM-
​     2022/40. 
Makhado, A.B….C. Brooks, et al. 2022. Online sub-Antarctic workshop on pelagic regionalization –1 June 2022. WG-EMM-2022/10. 
Ainley, D. & C. Brooks. 2021. Workshop report and synthesis: United States research and monitoring in support of the Ross Sea region
     Marine Protected Area. WG-EMM-2021/04.
Sylvester, Z., D. Veytia, A. Bahl, E. Hofmann, E. Murphy, N. Johnston, S. Corney, C. Brooks, B. Meyer & S. Thorpe. 2021. Using Models to
     improve our understanding of Antarctic krill and their ecological role in the Southern Ocean. WG-EMM-2021/05.
Wagner, D…. C. Brooks et al. 2020. The Salas y Gomez and Nazca ridges: a global biodiversity hotspot in need of protection. South Pacific
     Regional Fisheries Management Organization, 8th meeting of the Science Committee. 
Sylvester, Z., C. Brooks, M. Long & A. Van de Putte. 2020. Krill Growth and Climate Change in the Presence of Internal Climate Variability.
     CCAMLR WG-EMM.
Hofmann, E., L. Biddle, T. de Bruin, C. Brooks, et al. 2020. Report: 1st Southern Ocean Regional Workshop. UN Decade of Ocean Science
     for Sustainable Development. San Diego, CA.
Makhado, A.B.,  A. Lowther, P. Koubbi, I. Ansorge, C. Brooks et al. 2019. Expert Workshop on Pelagic Spatial Planning for the eastern
     subantarctic region (Domains 4, 5 and 6). SC-CAMLR-38/BG/29.
Brooks C., S. Chown, L. Douglass & B. Raymond. 2018. Progress towards a representative network of Southern Ocean protected areas.
     CCAMLR WS-SM-18/12. 
Brooks C. 2017. A summary of best practices in research and monitoring of protected areas. CCAMLR WS-RMP-17/05. 
Ainley D., C. Brooks et al. 2017. Toward developing a research and monitoring plan for the Ross Sea region marine protected area.
     CCAMLR WS-RMP-17/03​.
Caccavo J., C. Brooks, L. Zane & J. Ashford. 2015. Identification of Pleuragramma antarctica larvae in the Ross Sea via mitochondrial DNA.
     CCAMLR WG-FSA-15/61, Hobart, Australia. 
Brooks C. & K. Goetz. 2014. Pleuragramma antarcticum distribution in the Ross Sea during late austral summer 2013. CCAMLR WG-EMM-
     14/38, Hobart, Australia.
Brooks C. & J. Ashford. 2008. Spatial distribution and age structure of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea,
     Antarctica. CCAMLR WG-FSA-08/18.
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