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Meg Caldwell serves as the Executive Director for the Center for Ocean Solutions. She also directs the Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Program at Stanford Law School, where her research and teaching focuses on the use of science in environmental and marine resource policy development and implementation as well as private and public incentives for natural resource conservation. She served on the California Coastal Commission from 2004-2007, including two years as its chairperson. While Chair of the Commission, Caldwell also served on the board of the California Coastal Conservancy. Caldwell is a regular in Washington, D.C. and Sacramento alike, working with elected officials, ocean and coastal agencies and their stakeholders to tackle major challenges with practical approaches. She has testified in Congress regarding reauthorization of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act and the ecological and economic impacts of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. She also served as a senior consultant to the National Commissions on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, providing both oral testimony and written reports to the Commission on recommendations to reform federal oversight of offshore exploration and drilling. From 2004 to 2011, she was a member of the California Marine Life Protection Act Blue Ribbon Task Force for the central, north central, south and north coasts. Her work with the Task Force helped the State of California establish the largest network of marine protected areas in the nation. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1994, Caldwell was an instructor at San Jose State University and the University of California, Davis; counsel for MicroCLEAN, Inc.; a member of the City of Saratoga Planning Commission; and an associate in the environmental law group of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen. She earned her B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley and her JD from Stanford Law School.
Publications
R. P. Kelly, M. M. Foley, W. S. Fisher, R. A. Feely, B. S. Halpern, G. G. Waldbusser and M. R. Caldwell Mitigating Local Causes of Ocean Acidification with Existing Laws Science 27 May 2011
Tallis, H. et al. New Metrics for Managing and Sustaining the Ocean's Bounty. Marine Policy (2011), doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2011.03.013
Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel, Ocean Acidification Task Force Summary of Work Completed and Recommendations for ORRAP to Convey to the IWGOA (2011)
Margaret E. Peloso and Margaret R. Caldwell, Dynamic Property Rights: The Public Trust Doctrine and Takings in a Changing Climate, 30 Stan. Env. L. J. 51 (2011)
Michael Osmond, Satie Airame, Margaret Caldwell, John Day, Lessons for Marine Conservation Planning: A Comparison of Three Marine Protected Area Planning Processes, 53 Ocean & Coastal Management 41 (2010).
M.M. Foley, B.S. Halpern, F. Micheli, M.H. Armsby, M.R. Caldwell, C.M. Crain, E. Prahler, N. Rohr, D. Sivas, M.W. Beck, M.H. Carr, L.B. Crowder, J.E. Duffy, S.D. Hacker, K. McLeod, S.R. Palumbi, C.H. Peterson, H.M. Regan, M.H. Ruckelshaus, P.A. Sandifer, R.S. Steneck. Guiding ecological principles for marine spatial planning. 2010. Marine Policy, doi: 10.1016/j.marpol2010.02.001
Deborah A. Sivas and Margaret R. Caldwell, A New Vision for California Ocean Governance: Comprehensive Ecosystem-Based Marine Zoning, 27 Stanford Environmental Law Journal 209 (January 2008).
Caldwell, Margaret, Tegan Churcher Hoffman, Stephen Palumbi, Jessica Teisch, Chelsea Tu. 2009. Pacific Ocean Synthesis: Scientific Literature Review of Coastal and Ocean Threats, Impacts, and Solutions. Center for Ocean Solutions. The Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, California.
Caldwell, Margaret; Arlo Hemphill, Tegan Churcher Hoffman, Stephen Palumbi, Jessica Teisch, Chelsea Tu. 2009. Pacific Ocean Synthesis Executive Summary: Scientific Literature Review of Coastal and Ocean Threats, Impacts and Solutions. Center for Ocean Solutions. The Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Calfornia.
Reauthorization of the National Marine Sanctuaries Act: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans of the House Committee on Natural Resources, 110th Congress (November 3, 2007) (statement of Meg Caldwell, Senior Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, Member of the California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force).
Meg Caldwell, Peter Morgan, Deborah Sivas, and Alicia Thesing, Local Initiatives to Implement the Endangered Species Act: The Challenge of Developing Habitat Conservation Plans, in The Endangered Species Act and Federalism: Innovative Uses of States and Local Governments for Species Conservation, Kaush Arha and Barton H. Thompson, eds., Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, forthcoming.
Meg Caldwell and Craig Segall, No Day at the Beach: Sea Level Rise, Ecosystem Loss, and Public Access Along the California Coast, 34 Ecology Law Quarterly 533 (2007).
Margaret R. Caldwell, Peter M. Morgan, Liba Pejchar, Gretchen C. Daily, and Carl Palmer, Evaluating the Potential for Conservation Development: Biophysical, Economic, and Institutional Perspectives, 21 Conservation Biology 69 (2007).
Meg Caldwell, Proposition 90 Would Doom Coast to Over-Development, San Jose Mercury News, October 19, 2006, p. 18A.
Caldwell, Margaret R. International Environmental Law (International Legal Developments in Review: 2003), 18 International Lawyer 477 (2004). (With Richard J. Ferris, Kevin T. Harroff, Nicole L. Leonard and Gwen Parker)
