Anamarija Frankic

Ph.D., Marine Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary

M.S., Ecology and Limnology, University of Natural & Mathematical Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

B.S., Biology, University of Natural & Mathematical Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia

Contact Information
Dr. Anamarija Frankic
Assistant Professor
UMASS Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125-3393
Phone: 617-287-4415
fax: 617-287-7474
email: anamarija.frankic@umb.edu

Current Activities

As of September 2005, Anamarija is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental, Coastal and Ocean Sciences, University of Massachusetts in Boston.

Invited presenter at the CoCoNet final workshop, Coastal & Marine Resources Centre, University College Cork, Ireland, June 17-18, 2004. http://cmrc.ucc.ie/

Invited lecturer at the US-Brazil Consortium in Marine Policy & integrated coastal management course, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 20-July 2, 2004.

Participating in the GAUFRE Project in Belgium: "Towards a Spatial Structure Plan for sustainable management of the sea"; Invited speaker, Workshop on marine planning, Gent, Belgium, January 15-18 2004; Belgium Workshop

Developing socio-economic indicators for ICM and COOP Implementation Plan, Coastal Ocean Observing Panel, GOOS-IOC; Strategic Design Plan for Coastal Observing Module and A Reference Guide on the use of Indicators for Integrated Coastal Management.

Initiated, helped develop, and prepared the Karst Ecosystem Conservation project, WB/GEF grant project in Croatia $US 8.5 million; (implementation phase)
http://www.mzopu.hr/Kategorija.asp?ID=4355&Lang=Eng

Initiated and organized US-Croatia workshop on Biocomplexity and Sustainable Ecosystem Management: Integrating natural, social and economic sciences. Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 7-12, 2002. (NSF grant) Dubrovnik Document.

Establishment of the first international and national graduate study in environmental and coastal management, in Dubrovnik, Croatia; The 1st International Symposium on Environmental management SEM 2003, October 1-3, 2003, Zagreb, Croatia www.fkit.hr/sem

Initiated and developed project for Conserving Biodiversity on the Dalmatian Coast through Integrated Coastal Management, applied to the GEF through the UNDP/Zagreb/Croatia (accepted by the GEF, preparation phase)

Developing guidelines and strategy for sustainable aquaculture in the Adriatic region (Croatian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries) Coastal Management & Sustainable Aquaculture Development in the Republic of Croatia (pdf document)

Member of the Planning Committee: National Council for Science & the Environment
http://cnie.org/NCSEconference/2001conference

Member of the Advisory Committee: U.S. European Environment Foundation

Current and Recent Projects

Enhancement of Aquaculture Management in Virginia

Shallow Water Resource Use Conflicts – Use Suitability and Spatial Model Development for Aquaculture

CZMA Section 309 Coastal Needs Assessment and Strategy

Evaluation and Review of Virginia’s Coastal Resources Management Program

Organized NATO Research Workshop: Evaluation of Progress in Coastal Policies Transatlantic and Euro-Mediterranean Perspective. Slovenia, 2001. Adriatic region coastal resources management initiative

Developed the Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Management and Technology Project, which now helps identification and evaluation of coastal and estuarine management, technology and science needs in all 35 coastal states and territories of the US.

Selected Presentations and Publications

Protected Areas Review Report. Review assessment of the protected areas in Dalmatia, Croatia; as part of the Coast project preparation for the UNDP/GEF grant proposal. (.pdf)

Frankic, A. 2004. "Analytical approach for integrating natural and social sciences in the coastal management". Invited panelist speaker at the Coastal Society 19th International Conference, May 23-26, 2004. Newport, RI

Frankic, A. 2004. "The environment sets the limits for sustainable coastal management and development." Workshop on marine spatial planning: Making the Plan. University of Gent, Belgium, January 15-18 2004.

Frankic, A. and C. Hershner. 2003. Sustainable Aquaculture: Developing the promise of aquaculture. Aquaculture international, 11 (6): 517-530.

Frankic, A. 2003. ICZM Plan for Croatia with special focus on aquaculture. Workshop, Zagreb, Croatia, June 15-18 2003. (pdf)

Frankic, A. 2003. "Pesticides and coastal waters". Invited speaker, the William & Mary Environmental Law & Policy Symposium 'Pesticides: What will the future reap?', March 28-29, Williamsburg, VA.

Frankic, A. and C. Hershner. 2001. Sustainable Aquaculture: Developing the promise of aquaculture. Global conference on oceans and coasts at Rio+10, UNESCO, Paris, Dec. 2001. (Invited speaker and panelist; Aquaculture International in press.)

Frankic, A. 2001. USA-Adriatic Cooperation in coastal affairs. NATO Research Workshop, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2001. in B.C. Sain et al (eds.), Sustainable Coastal Management: A Transatlantic and Euro-Mediterranean Perspective, 173-180. Kluwer Academic Publisher, 2002. (organizer and speaker)

Frankic, A., Hershner, C. 2001. Seafood recipes: balancing aquaculture development with coastal planning. Pp 83-100 in Burnell, G.; Goulletquer, P.; Mees, J.; Seys, J.; Stead, S. (edd.): Aquaculture and its role in integrated coastal zone management : handbook of contributions and extended abstracts presented at the International Workshop on "Aquaculture and its role in Integrated Coastal Zone Management" Oostende, Belgium, April 19-21, 2001. European Aquaculture Society. Flanders Marine Institute: Oostende, Belgium. http://www.vliz.be/docs/libac/ac49.htm

Frankic, A. and C. Hershner. 2000. Applied science and management framework for planning sustainable development in coastal areas. International Littoral Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September, 2000. Proceedings.

Frankic, A. 2000. Environmental problems in the Pacific region and related projects. International Marine Debris Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. August, 2000. Proceedings. (Invited speaker and panelist) http://www.hihwnms.nos.noaa.gov/special_offerings/sp_off_imdc/proceedings.html

Frankic, A. 1999. Technology and information needs of the coastal and estuarine management community. Report, No. 40AANC801324, pp. 60, and Survey Report, pp. 202, NOOA/CICEET, Silver Spring, MD. http://ciceet.unh.edu, http://www.cleanwater.gov/coastalresearch/appa.html

Fox-Norse, V., R. Bailey, W. Boynton, A. Frankic, and J. Proni. 1999. Driving science and management issues and related information needs. U.S.C-GOOS, May 1999, Report, UMCES Contribution No. 3217. http://www.hpl.umces.edu/projects/wrkrpt.pdf

Frankic, A. 1998.A framework for planning sustainable development in coastal regions: and island pilot project in Croatia. Dissertation. http://www.vims.edu/library/mainpubs.html

Frankic, A. and M. P. Lynch. 1996. Ecostar-A program for identifying ecotourism activities that support sustainable development in coastal regions. Coastal and Marine Tourism World Congress. Honolulu, Hawaii, June 1996. Proceedings, pp. 252-267. http://www.irf.org/irecostar.htm

Useful Croatian Information Link:

Guidelines to marine aquaculture planning, integration and monitoring in Croatia, Eds. Katavić, I., Herstad, T-J., Kryvi, H., White, P., Franičević, V. and Skakelja, N., Project “Coastal zone management plan for Croatia”, Zagreb, 2005, pp. 78.