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Simon Donner
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Latest papers
Higher spatial resolution is not always better: evaluating satellite-sensed sea surface temperature products for a west Pacific coral reef system.
Scientific reports · 2025
Social-environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene.
Nature ecology & evolution · 2019
Latest funding
- $218,690
Urban Future Walks: Can guided tours promote support for climate solutions and positive climate engagement in urban environments?
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $79,050
Can we integrate happiness science and climate science to reduce carbon emissions?
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $102,071
Advancing the science of reputation & cooperation
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
Higher spatial resolution is not always better: evaluating satellite-sensed sea surface temperature products for a west Pacific coral reef system.
Lachs L, Donner S, Edwards AJ, Golbuu Y, Guest J
Social-environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene.
Darling ES, McClanahan TR, Maina J, Gurney GG, Graham NAJ, Januchowski-Hartley F, Cinner JE, Mora C, Hicks CC, Maire E, Puotinen M, Skirving WJ, Adjeroud M, Ahmadia G, Arthur R, Bauman AG, Beger M, Berumen ML, Bigot L, Bouwmeester J, Brenier A, Bridge TCL, Brown E, Campbell SJ, Cannon S, Cauvin B, Chen CA, Claudet J, Denis V, Donner S, Estradivari, Fadli N, Feary DA, Fenner D, Fox H, Franklin EC, Friedlander A, Gilmour J, Goiran C, Guest J, Hobbs JA, Hoey AS, Houk P, Johnson S, Jupiter SD, Kayal M, Kuo CY, Lamb J, Lee MAC, Low J, Muthiga N, Muttaqin E, Nand Y, Nash KL, Nedlic O, Pandolfi JM, Pardede S, Patankar V, Penin L, Ribas-Deulofeu L, Richards Z, Roberts TE, Rodgers KS, Safuan CDM, Sala E, Shedrawi G, Sin TM, Smallhorn-West P, Smith JE, Sommer B, Steinberg PD, Sutthacheep M, Tan CHJ, Williams GJ, Wilson S, Yeemin T, Bruno JF, Fortin MJ, Krkosek M, Mouillot D
Urban Future Walks: Can guided tours promote support for climate solutions and positive climate engagement in urban environments?
Principal investigators: Donner, Simon D.
Can we integrate happiness science and climate science to reduce carbon emissions?
Principal investigators: Zhao, Jiaying
Keywords: climate change; behaviour change; well-being; happiness; spillover effects
Advancing the science of reputation & cooperation
Principal investigators: Barclay, Patrick
Keywords: reputation; cooperation; altruism; trust; partner choice; evolution; social psychology; behavioural economics; game theory; social networks; interdependence; costly signaling; identity; fake news; moral framing
Are tropical mesophotic kelp communities endangered relics or climate change refuges? Field work in the Galapagos Archipelago
Principal investigators: Donner, Simon SD
Assessing the effect of repeated heat stress on coral communities and shoreline vulnerability: Field work in_x000d_ Kiribati's Gilbert Islands
Principal investigators: Donner, Simon
Ocean warming, sea-level rise and climate change impacts in the Pacific region
Principal investigators: Donner, Simon
Keywords: climate change; climate change adaptation; coral bleaching; coral reefs; general circulation model / earth systems model; Pacific Ocean; refugia; sea-level rise; sea surface temperature
Trade-offs between bleaching resilience and reef complexity among coral reefs threatened by climate change: Field work in Kiribati's Gilbert Islands
Principal investigators: Donner, Simon
From science to service: examining the circulation of useful climate information for adaptation in Pacific Island countries
Principal investigators: Donner, Simon D.
Keywords: climate change adaptation; climate services; Pacific Islands; small island developing states; expert knowledge; sea-level rise; coastal communities
Learning from experience: An interdisciplinary field and modelling research program to predict the future of coastal ecosystems in a warmer, higher carbon world
Principal investigators: Donner, Simon
The effect of climate and land use change on nutrient cycling in large river basins
Principal investigators: Donner, Simon
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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