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Academic degree:Ph.D. 
Last name:Scholz 
First name:Astrid J. 
Responsible for: 
Organization/Institute:Ecotrust 
Department:Knowledge Systems 
Position:Vice President 
Street, Number, POB:721 NW Ninth Avenue, Suite 200  
Postal code, City:97209 Portland 
State:Oregon 
Country:UNITED STATES 
Phone:503.467.0758 
Fax:503.222.1517 
E-mail address:astrid@ecotrust.org 
Url:http://www.ecotrust.org 
Curriculum vitae:
Astrid J. Scholz Ecotrust 721 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 200 Portland, OR 97209
ajscholz@ecotrust.org 503 467 0758

EDUCATION

Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 2001, Energy and Resources
M.Sc. University of Bristol, 1996, Economics
M.A. University of St. Andrews, 1995, Economics and Philosophy


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vice President, Knowledge Systems, Ecotrust, Portland; www.ecotrust.org/knowledgesystems (April 2004 to present)

Ecological Economist, Ecotrust, Portland/San Francisco; www.ecotrust.org, (September 2001 to present)

Member, California Marine Life Protection Act Master Plan Science Advisory Team to the California Department of
Fish and Game and the Blue Ribbon Task Force (December 2004 to present)

Member, Marine Protected Areas working group, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (spring 2003 to present)

Director, Pacific Marine Conservation Council, www.pmcc.org

Director, Living Oceans Society, British Columbia, www.livingoceans.org

Director and Scientific Advisor, “Empty Oceans, Empty Nets” and “Farming the Seas”, two award winning
PBS documentaries produced by Habitat Media, San Rafael, CA.


PUBLICATIONS

Scholz, A. J., C. Steinback, M. Mertens, 2006, Commercial Fishing Grounds Off the Coast of Central California, Report to the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative, Contract No. 2005-0067M, April 2006, 39 pp.
Scholz, A. J. and C. Steinback, with S. Klain, A. Boone. 2005. Socioeconomic Profile of Fishing Activities and Communities Associated with the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries. Portland, OR. 122pp.
Wright, D and A. J. Scholz, Eds. 2005 Place Matters – Geospatial Tools for Marine Conservation, Science, and Management in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon State University Press, Corvallis.
Scholz, A. J., Mike Mertens, Debra Sohm, Charles Steinback, and Marlene Bellman, “Place matters: Spatial tools for
assessing the socioeconomic implications of marine resource management measures on the Pacific Coast of the United States”. 2005. In: P. W. Barnes and J. Thomas (eds.), Benthic Habitats and the Effects of Fishing. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD. American Fisheries Society Symposium Proceedings, No. 41.
Scholz, A. J., M. Mertens, D. Sohm, C. Steinback, and M. Bellman, “Old data, new tricks: Spatially integrating
heterogeneous datasets for fishery management”. 2005. In Kruse, G.H., V.F. Gallucci, D.E. Hay, R.I. Perry, R.M. Peterman, T.C. Shirley, P.D. Spencer, B. Wilson, and D. Woodby (eds.) Fisheries Assessment and Management in Data-limited Situations. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Morgan, L. E., P. Etnoyer, A. J. Scholz, M. Mertens, and M. Powell, “Conservation and Management Implications of
Deep-Sea Coral Distributions and Fishing Effort in the Northeast Pacific Ocean”. 2005. In: A. Freiwald and J. M.
Roberts (eds.), Deep-water Corals and Ecosystems. Springer, New York.
Scholz, A. J., E.E. Tamm, C. Steinback, D. Edwards, and A. Day. 2004. Catch-22: Conservation, Communities and the Privatization of B.C. Fisheries. Final report analyzing trends and impacts of individual quota programs in British Columbia. www.ecotrustcan.org/catch-22.shtml.
Scholz, A. J., K. Bonzon, R. Fujita, N. Benjamin, N. Woodling, P. Black and C. Steinback. 2004. "Participatory socioeconomic analysis: drawing on fishermen’s knowledge for marine protected area planning in California." Marine Policy 28(4): 335-349.
Scholz, A. J. 2004. “The long arm of the invisible hand – science and scientists as merchants of biological diversity
and global environmental governance”, in Marybeth Long-Martello and Sheila Jasanoff, Earthly Politics: Local and Global in Environmental Governance, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Scholz, A. J. 2003. “From molecules to medicines –The use of genetic resources in pharmaceutical research”, in
Rachel Schurman and Denny Kelso (eds.), Engineering Trouble: Genetic Engineering and its Discontents; University
of California Press, Berkeley.
Scholz, A. J., 2003. “Final report and technical documentation of the Groundfish Fleet Restructuring Information and
Analysis Project”. Ecotrust/Pacific Marine Conservation Council. Portland. Spring 2003. www.ecotrust.org/gfr
Scholz, A. J., and Mike Mertens, Debra Sohm, Charles Steinback, and Marlene Bellman. (in review), “Spatially
integrated tools for assessing the socioeconomic impact dimensions of marine resource management on the West Coast of the United States”. Symposium Proceedings. Bulletin of Marine Science. 4th Mote International Symposium “Confronting Tradeoffs in the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management”. November 5-7, 2002. Sarasota, FL.
Scholz, A. J. and R. Fujita. 2001. “Supplementary Report: Social and Economic Implications of a Channel Islands Marine
Reserve Network”, Environmental Defense, http://www.environmentaldefense.org, August 2001.
R. Norgaard, A. J. Scholz, and S. Trainor. 2001. “Values, Valuing Processes, and Valuation”, in Ekko C. van
Ierland (ed.), Valuation of Nature and Environment, Cheltenham, U.K: Edward Elgar.
I. Chapela and A. J. Scholz, “Biodiversity – Cornucopia of Knowledge”, in Darrell Posey (ed.), Cultural
and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity, London/Nairobi: Intermediate Technologies Publications/UNEP, 1999.
G. Rochlin, A. J. Scholz, and S. Trainor, “Land Use, Development and Water Use Values in Gunnison County, Colorado;
Report to the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, February 1999.
Book review: Irmgard Schultz, Der erregende Mythos vom Geld: Die neue Verbindung von Zeit, Geld und Geschlecht im
Ökologiezeitalter (The erotic myth of money: the new connection between time, money and gender in the ecological age), Frankfurt: Campus Verlag, 1994; in Politische Ökologie, No. 42, July/August 1995


ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Faculty Affiliate, Marine Resource Management Program, Oregon State University, (2003 to present)

Guest Lecturer
- Environmental Economics, University of San Francisco, April 2004;
- Management of Renewable Marine Resources (FISH 693), University of Alaska, Fairbanks/Juneau, March 2004;
- “Place matters – spatially integrated tools for managing groundfish off the West Coast”, Marine Resource Management Program, seminar series, Oregon State University, 28 February 2003
- “Tales from the field(s) – Using multisited ethnography to study biodiversity and other things”, Biodiversity Group, Oregon State University, Corvallis, October 2002;
- Theory and Practice of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of
California, Berkeley, fall 2002.

Graduate students supervised
- Marlene Bellman, Oregon State University, Department of Fish and Wildlife (M.S., 2004);
- Amy Boone, University of California, Berkeley, Public Policy (M.A., 2005);
- Vicki Wedell, Oregon State University, Marine Resources Management (M.S., 2005);
- Nicole Woodling, University of California, Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group (M.S., 2004);

Teaching Associate, University of California, Berkeley; ER 290-8, Ecological Economics, fall 2000

Graduate Student Researcher, Program for the Social Study of Science and Technology (PSSST), UC Berkeley, spring 2000; program coordinator and mentor to junior graduate students embarking on fieldwork and data analysis

Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley/UC Santa Cruz Project on Biotechnology in California (Profs. Watts and
Goodman), fall 1999

Graduate Student Instructor, ES 196, UC Berkeley, fall 1998 through fall 1999; co-instructor for course and primary thesis supervisor for 8-12 seniors per semester who were completing an independent research project for the environmental science major

Co-Organizer, student seminar and discussion group on Environmental Values and Valuation, fall 1997 to fall 1998



References available on request.
 
Areas of interest:
global change, science and policy 
environmental systems analysis tools 
biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics 
ecological economics 
non-market services 
Geografisches Informationssystem (GIS) 
social issues (human rights, etc. ) in LCA 
fisheries and oceans 
 
Articles:
12 LCA (7) 480-487 (2007), Co-Product Allocation in Life Cycle Assessments of Seafood Production Systems: Review of Problems and Strategies (8 pp)
12 LCA (6) 414-421 (2007), Impact Categories for Life Cycle Assessment Research of Seafood Production Systems: Review and Prospectus (8 pp)
 
 

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