Franz Simon

Franz’s research interest relates to the critical role of scale in determining the dynamics of socio-ecological systems. Franz is leading a collaboration between the Nature Conservancy Alaska and Cornell University for his postdoctoral fellowship to advance strategies for climate-ready fishing communities. The goals of this project are to assess communities’ climate driven fisheries risk and to identify climate-robust rights portfolios. His Ph.D. at Yale University in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology focused on the indirect effects of environmental disturbances on socio-ecological systems, including a collaboration to explore the connections between terrestrial and marine socio-ecological systems in southern Spain. Franz received his M.S. at Simon Fraser University in animal behavior and his B.Sc. in Biology and Mathematics and Statistics at the University of the Fraser Valley.