Gail Osherenko

Lecturer, Environmental Studies Program and Project Scientist, Marine Science Institute	Office:	4308 Marine Science Research Bldg
	Phone:	(805) 893-5891
	Fax:	(805) 893-8062
	E-mail:	osherenko@msi.ucsb.edu
	Website:	www.es.ucsb.edu/faculty/osherenko.php
	Mailing Address:	Marine Science Institute University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150
	Courses:	ES 123 Coastal and Ocean Law & Policy ES 193GO Elephants and Whales

GAIL OSHERENKO.  Project Scientist in law and policy at the Marine Science Institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara, teaches courses in coastal and ocean law and policy in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management and in the Environmental Studies Program. Her research focuses on property rights and sea tenure, the role of marine spatial planning and ocean zoning, and the effectiveness of the California coastal management regime.  She was a principal investigator in the NCEAS working group on Ocean Ecosystem-Based Management: the role of zoning. After receiving her Juris Doctor from UC Davis in 1975, she helped draft California’s Coastal Act and create the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area as legislative assistant in the office of Representative Anthony Beilenson. She served as an appellate attorney in the Department of Justice in the late 1980s before moving to Vermont. She taught at Dartmouth College, and served as a member of the Vermont Water Resources Board.  A long-time Arctic specialist, her publications include three co-authored books: The Age of the Arctic (1989), Polar Politics (1993), and Siberian Survival: The Nenets and Their Story (1999).

Her current research for UCSB's Marine Science Institute focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of the California coastal zone management program.

Education:
J.D., School of Law, University of California, Davis, 1975
B.A., English, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, 1969

Books Published:
Siberian Survival: The Yamal Nenets and Their Story. Co-authored with Andrei
Golovnev. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Polar Politics: Creating International Environmental Regimes. Co-edited with
Oran Young. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993. Recipient of the
Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for environmental writing awarded by the
International Studies Association, May 1994.

The Age of the Arctic: Hot Conflicts and Cold Realities. Co-authored with
Oran Young. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Selected Articles Published:

Young, Osherenko et al., Solving the Crisis in Ocean Governance: Place-Based Management of Marine Ecosystems, 49 Environment 4 (May 2007).

Osherenko, New Discourses in Ocean Rights: Understanding Property Rights, the Public Trust, and Ocean Governance, 21 Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation (2006).

Crowder, Osherenko, Young, et al., Resolving Mismatches in U.S. Ocean Governance, Science 313 (Aug. 4, 2006): 618, 619.

Osherenko, Environmental Justice and the International Whaling Commission: Moby-Dick Revisited, Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, 8:2-3 (2005): 221-239.

Osherenko, G. "Indigenous Rights in Russia: Is Title to Land Essential for Cultural Survival?" Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, 13:3 (spring 2001).

Kofinas, Gary, Gail Osherenko, David Klein, and Bruce Forbes, "Research Planning in the Face of Change: The Human Role in Reindeer/Caribou Systems," Polar Research 19:1 (2000).

Osherenko, G. "Social and Cultural Impact on Indigenous Peoples of Expanded Use of the Northern Sea Route," Northern Sea Route: Future & Perspective. Tokyo, Japan: Ship & Ocean Foundation 1996: 339-347.

Osherenko, G. "Property Rights and Transformation in Russia: Institutional Change in the Far North," Europe-Asia Studies 47:7 (1995): 1077-1108.

Osherenko, G. "Human/nature relations in the Arctic: changing perspectives," Polar Record 28:167 (1992): 277-284.

Osherenko, G. "Developments in International Environmental Law: Will they help or hinder Arctic peoples?" Nordic Journal of International Law 58 (1989): 321-346.

Osherenko, G. "Can Co-Management Save Arctic Wildlife," Environment, 30:6 (July/August 1988): 6-13, 29-34.

Osherenko, G. "Wildlife Management in the North American Arctic: The Case for Co-Management," in Traditional Knowledge and Renewable Resource Management, Milton M. R. Freeman and Ludwig N. Carbyn, eds. (Edmonton: Boreal Institute. for Northern Studies, 1988)

Young, O.and Osherenko, G. "Arctic Resource Conflicts: Sources and Solutions," in United States Arctic Interests: the 1980s and 1990s, Westermeyer and Schusterich, editors (New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984).

Osherenko, G., S. Kaplan, D. Bradley. Vermont Wetlands: Laws and Voluntary Techniques for Conservation, a report from Vermont Natural Resources. Council to the Vermont Agency of Environmental Conservation (1982).