Contact Information

• cking10@unca.edu
• 350-4556
• 006 Karpen Hall

Dr. King teaches geology and environmental science courses. Her current research investigates science-based environmental management, and focuses on the emergence of Ecosystems-Based Fisheries Management for New England’s marine fisheries. She is interested in systems thinking to assess and address issues of uncertainty and complexity in socioecological systems.

Education

• B.A.  University of California at Santa Barbara, Geophysics
• M.S.  University of Montana, Geology
• Ph.D.  The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Courses Taught

• ENVR 130 Intro to Environmental Science
• ENVR 105L Lab for Physical Geology
• ENVR 373 The World in a Grain of Sand
• HUM 414 Critical Perspectives on Contemporaneity

Professional Interests

• Earth Systems Science (including geology and geophysics)
• Socioecological Systems
• Environmental Governance
• Political Ecology
• Science Studies

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Recent Presentations

• King, Catherine, 2022, The Performativity of New England’s Groundfish Fishery as Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) Practices Emerge, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Online Conference
• King, Catherine, 2021, Who’s to Blame?: The Multiplicity of New England’s Groundfish Crisis, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Online Conference 
• King, Catherine, 2020, Performing Crisis and Intervention in Fisheries Management: Matters of Failure and Success in New England’s Groundfish Fishery, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, CO 
• King, Catherine, 2018, Ethnographies of Environmental Management: Emergence of an Ecosystems-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) Intervention in New England's Marine Fisheries, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA 
• King, Catherine, 2017, The Emergence of Ecosystems-based Fisheries Management in New England: Something New or Business as Usual?, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA 
• King, Catherine, 2017, Constructing Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management in New England, The Seventh Annual Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, Lexington, KY