Flow, Fish and Fishing

This is a collaborative interdisciplinary project funded by the National Science Foundation, integrating work by oceanographers, ecologists, biologists and economists. The goal of the project is to develop a process-level description of nearshore fisheries and their management, patterned after California coastal environments. I was formerly employed as a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) on this grant.

Click on the picture to read a paper describing how the connectivity matrices that the project is built on are derived from idealized but data-driven advections of Lagrangian particles.

Sustainable Fisheries Group

The SFG is a partnership between the University of California at Santa Barbara (including NCEAS) and Environmental Defense, a nongovernmental organization that is a national leader in marine and fishery conservation. This new alliance aims to dramatically improve the conservation status of Pacific West Coast fisheries through increased financial performance. I was formerly employed as a GSR on this grant.

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Incentive Structures and Procrastination

I’m one of the Principal Investigators on a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation that explores time structuring, procrastination and incentives. The grant is funding a series of field experiments. You can download a copy of a paper that summarizes our results so far from my Research page.

Click on the image to find out more about the Russell Sage Foundation.

Biocomplexity and Fisheries Sustainability

The primary concepts of interest in this interdisciplinary research project are the resilience of salmon abundance and diversity to harvest and environmental change and the resilience of the human communities in the face of these changes in salmon abundance and associated changes in price and costs of fishing.

I travelled to Alaska in the summer of 2007 with one of my advisors (Chris Costello) to work on this project. The Alaskan salmon fishery is one of the few fisheries in the world that has been certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council. Follow the link to the MSC’s website to find a list of other certified sustainable fisheries or click on the photo to find out more about the University of Washington’s Alaska Salmon Program.