Mach

IRES Postdoc Supervisor:
Dr. Kai M. A. Chan

Research Projects:
I am working as a Planner for Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and a postdoc associate in the CHANS Lab to apply a regional risk assessment framework that identifies cumulative impacts to valuable species, habitats, and ecosystems within the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA).

Peer-reviewed Publications
Mach ME, CD Levings, PS McDonald, and KMA Chan. 2011. An Atlantic infaunal engineer is established in the Northeast Pacific: Clymenella troquata (polychaeta: maldanidae) on the British Columbia and Washington Coasts. Biological Invasions. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-011-0096-6

Mach ME and PE Bourdeau. 2011. To flee or not to flee: Risk assessment by a marine snail in multiple cue environments. JEMBE. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2011.08.018

Sisk, TD, G Singh, J Tam, KMA Chan, S Klain, M Mach, and R Martone. 2011. Barriers and Incentives to Engagement in Public Policy and Science-based Advocacy. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 92:276–280. http://www.esajournals.org/doi/full/10.1890/0012-9623-92.3.276

Mach ME, L Hice, T Duffy, DO Conover and PH Barber. 2010. Regional differentiation and post-glacial expansion of the Atlantic Silverside, Menidia menidia, an annual fish with high dispersal potential. Marine Biology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-010-1577-3

Communications, Reports, and Theses
Mach ME. 2012. Research on marine coastal impacts to promote ecosystem-based management:
Nonnative species in northeast Pacific estuaries. PhD Thesis. University of British Columbia, BC Link

Mach ME, J Rhode Ward, and S Wyllie-Echeverria. 2010. Distribution and potential effects of a non- native seagrass in Washington State: Zostera japonica workshop. Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, WA, Sept 23 – 24, 2010. Washington Sea Grant Report. Link *cited in the Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board management decision for Z. japonica, November 2011

Chan KMA and Mach ME. Green invading machines reach Vancouver (Daily Newspaper, Vancouver) October 5th, 2009.

Chan KMA and Mach ME. Give seals some safeguards; Hunt continues to raise discussion whether or not it is humane (Daily Newspaper, Vancouver) April 27, 2009.

Chan KMA and Mach ME. Faculty of 1000 Biology, 3 Feb 2009. Review of: Hershner C & Havens KJ. 2008. Managing invasive aquatic plants in a changing system: Strategic consideration of ecosystem services. http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1147205/evaluation.

Chan KMA and Mach ME. Conundrum: Save the salmon, kill the seals? Metro (Daily Newspaper, Vancouver) July 10, 2008.

Mach ME. 2007. Genetic structure of the Atlantic Silverside, Menidia menidia (Pisces, Atherinidae), across an environmental gradient. Masters Thesis. Boston University, Boston, MA

Megan (lab alum) and Kai publish on the potential impact of an invasive seagrass

Megan Mach (lab alum), Sandy Wyllie-Echeverria (UW seagrass researcher), and Kai Chan summarized 40 years of scientific research on Zostera japonica, a nonnative seagrass species in the Northeast Pacific, to investigate its effect on ecosystem processes and identify research gaps that might interfere with management objectives. Our analysis was especially relevant for ongoing policy discussion […]

Klain, Satterfield & Chan 2014 Ecol Economics: Ecosystem services and their bundled qualities

Klain, S.C., Satterfield, T.A., Chan, K.M.A., 2014. What matters and why? Ecosystem services and their bundled qualities. Ecological Economics 107, 310–320. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.09.003 URL

Naeem … Olmsted et al. 2015 Science: Science right when paying for services

Naeem, S., J. C. Ingram, A. Varga, T. Agardy, P. Barten, G. Bennett, E. Bloomgarden… P. Olmsted et al. 2015. Get the science right when paying for nature’s services. Science 347(6227):1206-1207. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6227/1206.summary

Mach et al. 2014 OCM: Ecological Effects of an Invasive Seagrass

Mach ME, S Wyllie-Echeverria and KMA Chan. 2014. Ecological effect of a nonnative seagrass spreading in the Northeast Pacific: a review of Zostera japonica. Ocean and Coastal Management 102:375–382. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2014.10.002

Mach & Chan 2014 F1000Research: Greenbacks for Greencrabs

Mach ME and KMA Chan. 2014. Trading greenbacks for green crabs: Evaluating the commercial shellfish harvest at risk to European green crab invasion. F1000Research. [v3; ref status: indexed, http://f1000research.com/articles/2-66/v3 ]

New publication predicting the cost of an invasive crab to Puget Sound, Washington

Non-native species pose a risk to native environments, but predicting the value at-risk to these species before invasion occurs is difficult and rare in current literature. Megan Mach and Kai Chan presented a method for describing the economic risk of an invasive species that encompasses the great variation possible in an invading species interactions with […]

Spatial Prioritisation for Protecting Ecosystem Services

Luck, G. W., K. M. A. Chan and C. J. Klein. 2012. Identifying spatial priorities for protecting ecosystem services. F1000 Research. http://f1000r.es/S1ovvh

Kai a nominee to sit on the International Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services panel

Congratulations to Kai Chan for being selected as one of four Canadian nominees for the International Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Multidisciplinary Expert Panel. For more information click here.

Illustrating climate effects on seaweed communities

Megan Mach‘s recent illustrations in the article “Effects of climate change on global seaweed communities” are now published online. View them here

Geographic variation in a Temperate Reef Snail

Martone, RM and F Micheli. 2012. Geographic variation in demography of a temperate reef snail: importance of multiple life-history traits. Marine Ecological Progress Series 457:85-99 Link