Mairi Miller-Meehan is a PhD student at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Victoria. She earned an MS in Biological Oceanography from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, USA, and MA in International Environmental Policy from Monterey Institute of International Studies, California, where she studied fisheries co-management in Bonthe, Sierra Leone. She worked as a fisheries policy consultant with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation for several years before turning her attention back to education. Mairi is interested in how conservation and ocean management tools such as marine protected areas (MPAs) perform in achieving social and ecological goals and objectives set forth in local, national and international policies. She is interested in the assessment of Marine Protected Area Networks in achieving the qualitative elements of Aichi Target 11. Her project aims to describe how MPA networks are being evaluated; whether site-specific objectives are linked to the social, ecological, governance, and economic dimensions measured, how important practitioners consider these dimensions in MPA network effectiveness, and finally identifying the indicators associated with these variables.