Liam Carr has received a 2012 Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship through the Texas Sea Grant College Program.  The year-long fellowship in Washington, D.C. centers on the development of federal marine resource policy through both the Legislative and Executive branches of the U.S. government.  His dissertation work, quantifying the local ecological knowledge and behavior of fishers in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, will be first presented at the 2011 Texas Sea Grant Researcher and Extension Conference.