Maina Mbui

Personal profile

Biography

I am a spatial scientist with interests in a wide range of environmental and ecological questions and have predominantly focused on coastal and marine environment. My ultimate goals are to understand and predict the impacts of environmental variability and change on social and ecological systems at local and global scales to support spatial planning & management. I have explored questions in a range of other fields, including hydrology and water resources, sustainable agriculture and food security. Therefore, my work integrates diverse disciplines including macro-ecology, climate science, oceanography, remote sensing, hydrology, and decision science to help answer relevant questions. Given the many large and diverse data sets that I work with, I am also involved in data science projects focused on developing tools for integrating, analysing and extracting information from multiple (often large) data sets more effectively, making it easier to include cross-disciplinary information in addressing complex environmental and ecological questions.

External positions

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, ARC Center of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (ARC CEED) , The University of Queensland

2 Sep 2013 → 25 Feb 2016

Marine Geo-spatial Scientist, Wildlife Conservation Society

1 Jan 2007 → 30 Dec 2009

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Projects

2 Active

WIO-SP: Scaling-up Decision Support for Coastal and Marine Management in the Western Indian Ocean

Mbui, M.

1/05/19 → 30/04/22

Project: Other

WIO-R2R: WIO-Ridge to Reef: An Ecosystem Based Approach to Biodiversity Conservation in the Western Indian Ocean

Mbui, M.

1/01/16 → 31/12/25

Project: Research

Research Outputs

2546 Citations
26 h-Index
45 Article
3 Letter
2 Review article
1 Comment/opinion

Aligning marine spatial conservation priorities with functional connectivity across maritime jurisdictions

Maina, J. M., Gamoyo, M., Adams, V. M., D'agata, S., Bosire, J., Francis, J. & Waruinge, D., Feb 2020, In : Conservation Science and Practice. 2, 2, 13 p., e156.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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Climate‐driven shift in coral morphological structure predicts decline of juvenile reef fishes

Fontoura, L., Zawada, K. J. A., D’agata, S., Álvarez‐Noriega, M., Baird, A. H., Boutros, N., Dornelas, M., Luiz, O. J., Madin, J. S., Maina, J. M., Pizarro, O., Torres‐Pulliza, D., Woods, R. M. & Madin, E. M. P., Feb 2020, In : Global Change Biology. 26, 2, p. 557-567 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)

Simulating streamflow in the Upper Halda Basin of southeastern Bangladesh using SWAT model

Raihan, F., Beaumont, L. J., Maina, J., Saiful Islam, A. & Harrison, S. P., 2 Jan 2020, In : Hydrological Sciences Journal. 65, 1, p. 138-151 14 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)

A guide to modelling priorities for managing land-based impacts on coastal ecosystems

Brown, C. J., Jupiter, S. D., Albert, S., Anthony, K. R. N., Hamilton, R. J., Fredston-Hermann, A., Halpern, B. S., Lin, H. Y., Maina, J., Mangubhai, S., Mumby, P. J., Possingham, H. P., Saunders, M. I., Tulloch, V. J. D., Wenger, A. & Klein, C. J., 3 May 2019, In : Journal of Applied Ecology. 56, 5, p. 1106-1116 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

2 Citations (Scopus)

Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene

Darling, E. S., McClanahan, T. R., Maina, J., Gurney, G. G., Graham, N. A. J., Januchowski-Hartley, F., Cinner, J. E., Mora, C., Hicks, C. C., Maire, E., Puotinen, M., Skirving, W. J., Adjeroud, M., Ahmadia, G., Arthur, R., Bauman, A. G., Beger, M., Berumen, M. L., Bigot, L., Bouwmeester, J. & 60 others, Brenier, A., Bridge, T. C. L., Brown, E., Campbell, S. J., Cannon, S., Cauvin, B., Chen, C. A., Claudet, J., Denis, V., Donner, S., Estradivari, Fadli, N., Feary, D. A., Fenner, D., Fox, H., Franklin, E. C., Friedlander, A., Gilmour, J., Goiran, C., Guest, J., Hobbs, J-P. A., Hoey, A. S., Houk, P., Johnson, S., Jupiter, S. D., Kayal, M., Kuo, C., Lamb, J., Lee, M. A. C., Low, J., Muthiga, N., Muttaqin, E., Nand, Y., Nash, K. L., Nedlic, O., Pandolfi, J. M., Pardede, S., Patankar, V., Penin, L., Ribas-Deulofeu, L., Richards, Z., Roberts, T. E., Rodgers, K. S., Safuan, C. D. M., Sala, E., Shedrawi, G., Sin, T. M., Smallhorn-West, P., Smith, J. E., Sommer, B., Steinberg, P. D., Sutthacheep, M., Tan, C. H. J., Williams, G. J., Wilson, S., Yeemin, T., Bruno, J. F., Fortin, M-J., Krkosek, M. & Mouillot, D., Sep 2019, In : Nature Ecology and Evolution. 3, p. 1341-1350 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article