Dr. Mary Donovan is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology. Donovan is a quantitative ecologist focused on applied questions that inform conservation and management of coral reef social-ecological systems. She received her MS and PhD from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in Zoology, and prior to joining UH as faculty she was an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Donovan’s research is motivated by informing natural resources decisions by drawing on resilience, complex systems, and social-ecological systems theories. Recent work includes studies disentangling the interactions between local and global impacts on coral reef systems. Her applied work is done alongside practitioners and stakeholders who are implementing management and policy at local, regional, and global scales. This includes her work founding and leading the Hawai‘i Monitoring and Reporting Collaborative (HIMARC), which brings together data and organizations who participate in nearshore marine resource management to provide scientific support for current management and policy.