Positions

Professor, Coastal Studies, Integrated Coastal Programs

Contact Info

griffithd@ecu.edu

252-328-1748

Publications in VIVO

Co-author Network

Co-investigator Network

David Griffith

selected publications

article
- Exploration of underlying patterns among conflict, socioeconomic and political factors. PLOS ONE. 19:1-12. 2024
- McGillis's Points: Commercial fishing Narratives of Knowledge and Power in the Southern United States. . Human Organization. 83:1-14. 2024
- Griffith, David, Rachata Muneepeerakul, Genevieve Guerry, Alvaro Carmona Cabrero, Jeffrey C. Johnson, Rafael Munoz-Carpena, Michael Puma, Upmanu Lall, and Mehran Homayounfar. 2023. "Migration and Livelihood Constellations: Assessing common themes in the face of environmental change in Somalia and among Agro-Pastoral Peoples. International Migration 1:1-15. DOI: 10.1111/imig.13122 (includes current ICS PhD student Guerry).
  . See above. See above. 2023
- Ungkakay-Bagsit, Farisal, Harold M. Monteclaro, and David C. Griffith. 2023. Local Perspectives Matter: The case of seasonal fishery closure in the Visayen Sea, Philippines. Society and Natural Resources: DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2023.2183444 (Publication with former ICS PhD Student, Farisal Ungkakay-Bagsit).
  . See above. See above. 2023
- Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Wellbeing
  in Southern Puerto Rico. Human Ecology. 2023
- Confirmation of fishers' local ecological knowledge of ciguatoxic fish species and ciguatera- prone hotspot areas in Puerto Rico using harmful benthic algae surveys and fish toxicity testing. PLOS ONE. 2022
- Labor across Livelihoods along Coastal Plains. Economic Anthropology. 42:82-92. 2021
- Linking Fishing Behavior and Ecosystem Dynamics Using Social and Ecological Network Models. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2021
- Negotiating political and moral economies in the U.S. Caribbean after Hurricanes Irma and María. Caribbean Studies. 49:3-27. 2021
- Environmental Change and Human Migration: Stylized Facts from Puerto Rico and Honduras. Coastal Management. 2020
- The Value of Reproduction: multiple livelihoods, cultural labor, and immigrants in Iowa and North Carolina. Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies. 43:142-160. 2020
- Working through the pandemic. Anthropology Now. 12:18-25. 2020
- 'Out of sight, out of mind': Rapid Ethnographic of Commercial Fishers' Perspectives on Corporate/ State Response to the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.". Human Oganization. 78:1-11. 2019
- Extreme Wage Labor. Dialectical Anthropology. 43:371-374. 2019
- The Value of Reproductive Labor. American Anthropologist. 120:224-236. 2018
report
- Progress Report: Ciguatoxin detection and model predictions for use in fisheries management in Puerto Rico 2019
- Multiple Labor Supplies, Multiple Livelihoods: Labor along North Carolina's Coast and Coastal Plain 2017
review
- Amnesties in Brazilian History - Amnesty in Brazil: Recompense after Repression, 1895-2010. By Ann M. Schneider. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. Pp. 289. $55.00 cloth. https://www.doi.org/10.1017/tam.2022.132. 2023

presentations

presentation

principal investigator on

Toward a Multi-Scale Theory of Coupled Human Mobility and Environmental Change awarded by University of Florida (UF) 2020 - 2025
Toward a Multi-Scale Theory of Coupled Human Mobility and Environmental Change - Add On awarded by University of Florida (UF) 2021 - 2022
Rapid Response Research: The political and moral economies of recovery from Hurricanes Irma and Mar?a in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2017 - 2018
Becoming German: Middle Eastern Refugees in Small Town Germany awarded by GOV-National Science Foundation (NSF) 2016 - 2018
Leveraging Social Capital to Build Local Leadership for Sustainable Coastal Communities: Grassroots Models awarded by North Carolina State University (NCSU) 2016 - 2018
Labor Implications of Sustainable Coastal Development: Relations between Coastal and Inland Communities awarded by North Carolina Sea Grant 2014 - 2017
Managed Migration and the Value of Labor awarded by GOV-National Science Foundation (NSF) 2012 - 2016
Next Generation Coastal Communities awarded by UNC Sea Grant College Program 2016
CESU: Guilford Courthouse Ethnographic Overview and Assessment awarded by National Park Service (NPS) 2012 - 2015
Next Generation Coastal Communities: Leadership among Fishermen awarded by UNC Sea Grant College Program/ NOAA 2015
Labor Implications of Sustainable Coastal Development awarded by UNC Sea Grant College Program 2015
Assessing the Impacts of the Grouper-Tilefish IFQ program awarded by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration/ NOAA fisheries 2014
Labor Implications of Sustainable Coastal Development awarded by North Carolina Sea Grant College Program 2014
Managed Migration and the Value of Labor awarded by GOV-National Science Foundation (NSF) 2014
Assessing & Developing Best Practices in Seafood Marketing and Consumption: A R awarded by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2010 - 2013
Ethnographic Overview of Guilford Courthouse National Park awarded by National Park Service 2013
Labor Implications of Sustainable Coastal Development awarded by UNC Sea Grant College Program/ NOAA Fisheries 2013
Labor Implications of Sustainable Coastal Development (Student Support) awarded by UNC Sea Grant College Program/ NOAA Fisheries 2013
Managed Migration and the Value of Labor awarded by National Science Foundation 2013
An Ethographic Overview of the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park awarded by National Park Service 2012
Migration and Knowledge awarded by National Science Foundation 2007 - 2011
Comparative Ethnogaphy in the Development of Impact Assessment Methodologies: Profiling Two South Carolina Fishing Communities awarded by Gulf and South Atlantic Fisheries Development Foundation 2008 - 2011
Assessing Best Practices in Seafood Marketing and Promotions awarded by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) S-K Program 2011
'Assessing and Developing Best Practices in Seafood Marketing and Consumption.' awarded by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 2010
Celebrating Latino Leadership in North Carolina awarded by North Carolina Humanities Coucil 2010
Sea Grant Extension Program awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 2006 - 2010
A Citizen's water Quality Monitoring Program for the Albermarle-Pamlico Estuary awarded by N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources 2000 - 2009
Celebrating Latino Leadership in North Carolina: An Oral History Project awarded by North Carolina Humanities Council 2009
Comparative Ethnography of Two South Carolina Fishing Communities awarded by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) 2009
Comparative Ethnography in the Development of Impact Assessment Methodologies: Profiling Two South Carolina Fishing Communities awarded by NOAA via The Gulf & South Atlantic Fisheries Foundation 2008
Inventory of Latino Businesses in Pitt County, North Carolina awarded by East Carolina University 2008
Migration and Knowledge awarded by GOV-National Science Foundation (NSF) 2008
Sea Grant Extension Program. awarded by UNC Sea Grant College Program, NC State University 2007
'Traditional and Scientific Knowledge of the Kotzebue Sound Ecosystem.' awarded by GOV-National Science Foundation (NSF) 2007
Comprehensive Knoweldge of the Core Sound Ecosystem awarded by North Carolina Sea Grant College Program 2007
Developing "Best Practices" For Coastal Communities Experiencing Immigration awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 2004 - 2006
Developing, "Best Practices," For Coastal Communities Experiencing Immigration (Graduate Student Stipend) awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 2004 - 2006
Mercury Risk Awareness and Fish Consumption Among the Fishing Community on the Tar-Pamlico River awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 2004 - 2006
El Puente (The Bridge): health implications of transnational communication among Honduran families separated through migration. awarded by GOV-National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH) 2005
Incorporating Humans in Ecosystem-Based Models of Fishery Management awarded by UNC Sea Grant College Program 2005
Stakeholder Perception of Water Quality awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 2002 - 2004
Local Knowledge and Scientific Resource Management in Changing Coastal Communities awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 2000 - 2002
Relationships Among Multiple Livelihoods and Human, Social, and Cultural Capital awarded by National Science Foundation 1997 - 2001
Assessing Coastal Population Growth awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 1998 - 2000
Managing the Social Health of North Carolina Fisheries in a Context of Conflict awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 1996 - 1998
Exploratory Study of Potential Human Health Effects of Deteriorating Water Quality Among North Carolina Crabbers awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 1995 - 1997
Social Impacts of Recent Regulatory Changes on Fishery Dependent Communities in New England and the Mid-Atlantic awarded by Aquirre International, Inc. 1995 - 1996
Identifying and Defining Fishers and Gear in North Carolina to Develop Licensing as an Effective Management Tool awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 1995 - 1996

co-principal investigator on

RUI: CNH2-L: An integrative analysis of perceptions, policy, and land use impact on coastal agricultural watershed resilience awarded by NSF - National Science Foundation 2021 - 2026
The Glass Station--Research awarded by National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) 2017 - 2019
Becoming German: Middle Eastern Refugees in Small Town Germany awarded by GOV-National Science Foundation (NSF) 2016 - 2018
"Towards a Multi-Scale Theory on Coupled Human Mobility and Environmental Change." awarded by Department of Defense, MURI 2018
Celebrating Latino Leadership in North Carolina awarded by N.C. Humanities Council 2009 - 2011
Incorporating Humans In Ecosystem-Based Models of Fishery Management awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 2006 - 2010
The Role of Social, Personal and Institutional Resources in Understanding the Impact of Hurricane Floyd on the People of Eastern North Carolina awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 2000 - 2002
Characterization of the NC Recreational Shrimp Trawl Fishery awarded by U.N.C.-Sea Grant Program 1995

investigator on

Ciguatoxin detection and model predictions for use in fisheries management in Puerto Rico awarded by University of Puerto Rico 2020 - 2021

professional service activities

Several times over the period noted above I was on the team that assessed the stock of Gulf of Mexico Shrimp for the SEDAR (Southeast Data, Assessment, and Review) process. This was SEDAR 87. It began in September of 2023 and will last into summer of 2024. 2023
1 time Oxfam Internationa recruited me to review their report, "Climate Change and Labor" about workers who are exposed to the elements when they work and how this has affected their health. 2023
Multiple times per year I continue to review journal articles, approximately one per month, for journals such as Frontiers in Social Science, Sustainability, Medical Anthropology, Caribbean Studies, etc. 2023
5 times per year I continue to serve on the Scientific and Statistical Committee of the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, which meets 5 times per year. 2022 - 2023
American Geophysics Union (AGU) With colleagues at the University of Florida and Columbia University, I organized and chaired two sessions at the AGU 2021 annual meeting (December 16, 2021) on environmental change and migration. 2021
Christian Zlolniski Promotion to Full Professor The Univeristy of Texas, Austin, asked me to review the materials submitted by Dr. Zlolniski for promotion to full professor. 2019
Invited to review article for Frontiers in Sociology I reviewed a paper on the educational and human capital development of refugees in Sweden. 2019
Macela Vasquez-Leon promotion to full professor I reviewed the application materials of Dr. Vasquez for Arizona State University. 2019
Review of Jennifer Sweeney Tookes Review of tenure application of Dr. Tookes for Georgia Southern University. 2019
Symposium on the Children of Immigrants (web-based) I was a speaker for a symposium on the children of immigrants hosted by Princeton University, the University of Miami, and the Institute for Advanced Studies. ; Around 140 individuals registered for the symposium and, during my talk, there were 122 listenters from around the world. ; 2019

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