Fisheries Center Student Pages

Siân Morgan is a doctoral student with Project Seahorse, an organization that seeks to advance the marine conservation through protecting seahorses, their relatives and habitats. Her doctorate research has focused on the juvenile ecology and adult demography of seahorses, using two exploited tropical species as case studies. Using field data collected from her field site in the Philippiness, she is presently modeling policy options for artisanal seahorse fisheries. Her interests include the establishment of marine protected areas in both tropical and temperate zones, connectivity in marine populations, community-based ecosystem management, shifts in marine artisanal fisheries and the international trade in marine products.

Sian's interest in working at the interface between ecology and conservation policy, has given her the opportunity to coordinate a national seafood choice program for Canada (www.seachoice.org), work with the World Conservation Union (IUCN) to list Syngnathids on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and to undertake research for the secretariat of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora).

Sian's is presently registered at McGill, studying at the Fisheries Centre.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed

Morgan, S.K. and J. M. R. Curtis. Accepted. Axes of excellence: A role for students as community-engaged scholars. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Morgan, S.K. & A.C.J. Vincent. 2007. The ontogeny of habitat associations in the tropical Tiger Tail seahorse Hippocampus comes Cantor, 1850. Journal of Fish Biology. 71:701-724

Morgan, S.K. and H. M. Panes 2007. Threatened fishes of the world: Hippocampus spinosissimus Weber, 1913 (Syngnathidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 10.1007/s10641-007-9250-5 (published online April 27 07)

Morgan, S.K. and S.A. Lourie 2006. Threatened fishes of the world: Hippocampus comes Cantor, 1850 (Syngnathidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 75:311-313

Kendrick, A.J., S.K. Morgan. Acentronura australe. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Morgan, S.K. Hippocampus mohnikei. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Morgan, S.K., J.J. Pogonoski, J.R. Paxton and D.A. Pollard. Hippocampus breviceps. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Morgan, S.K., J.J. Pogonoski, J.R. Paxton, D.A. Pollard. Solegnathus dunckeri. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Morgan, S.K., J.J. Pogonoski, J.R. Paxton, D.A. Pollard. Solegnathus hardwickii. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Pogonoski, J.J., J.R. Paxton and D.A. Pollard and S.K. Morgan. Pegasus lancifer. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Woods, C.M.C., S.K. Morgan, K. Martin-Smith, J.J. Pogonoski, J.R. Paxton, D.A. Pollard and A. J. Morgan. Hippocampus abdominalis. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Other

Peer-reviewed Publications - in preparation

Morgan, S.K. & A.C.J. Vincent. Planktonic dispersal of exploited tropical seahorses Hippocampus comes and H. spinosissimus.

Morgan, S.K. & A.C.J. Vincent.\Life history reference points for management of an exploited tropical seahorse.

Morgan, S.K. & A.C.J. Vincent. In prep. The ontogenetic behaviour of tropical seahorses (Hippocampus comes Cantor, 1850) beginning their pelagic phase.

Morgan, S.K., W. H. Satterthwaite & D. F. Doak. Modeling pragmatic policy options to address overfishing in an artisanal seahorse fishery.

Morgan, S.K., H. M Panes, B. Giles, D. McCorry & A.C. J. Vincent. In prep. Gold rush: the rise and fall of a sea cucumber/ seahorse fishery in the central Philippines.

Publications - Policy

Wabnitz, C.C.C. and S.K. Morgan 2007. Lessons Learned and Best Practices in the Management of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas in the Wider Caribbean Region. United Nations Environment Programme Caribbean Office (UNEP-CAR/RCU)

Morgan, S.K. and A.C.J. Vincent. 2006. Measuring for management of the international trade in seahorses, Hippocampus spp. A report to the CITES Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland. Project Seahorse, Vancouver, Canada. pp.82

Morgan, S.K. and A.C.J. Vincent. 2006. Summary version: Measuring for management of the international trade in seahorses, Hippocampus spp. A report to the CITES Secretariat, Geneva, Switzerland. Project Seahorse, Vancouver, Canada. pp.10

Publications - Research and Reviews

Morgan, S.K. World Conservation Union Case Study: Shattering the Myth - Hippocampus capensis.

Panes, H.., Giles, B.G., Morgan, S.K. and A.C.J. Vincent. 2005. Monitoring a Danajon Bank deep water seahorse fishery for management insights. Profiling Report to FISH Project Philippines. Pp. 12

Morgan, S.K. 1999. Undergraduate Honours Thesis. The effect of macronutrients, micronutrients and trace elements on coccolith production in Emiliania huxleyi (Lohm.)

Technical Reports

Morgan, S.K. and C. Bull. 2005. Potential Marking and Tagging Techniques for Syngnathids. Pp. 40 http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/pdfs/tech/Tagging_Seahorses_Full.pdf

Morgan, S.K. & K. Martin-Smith. 2004. Selected Techniques for Tagging Seahorses.
Technical Report Series No.6, Pp 23. http://seahorse.fisheries.ubc.ca/pdfs/tech/Tagging_Seahorses.pdf

Media/Digital/Printed materials

Morgan, S.K. 2007. Seahorses. New Book of Knowledge Encyclopaedia.

Morgan, S.K. & J. Barnaby. 2007. Students Mobilize Sustainable Seafood at UBC. Grad Gazette: E-news for UBC Alumni.

Morgan, S.K. & J. Barnaby. 2007. Students Mobilize Sustainable Seafood at UBC. UBC Trek Magazine.

SeaChoice Website: www.seachoice.ca, launched September 27 2006. Content, navigation and database structure.

Canada's Seafood Guide. SeaChoice consumer card.

SeaChoice brochure: Take the Plunge, buy sustainable seafood with the future in mind.

SeaChoice drop cards.