Press on fish heading north and deeper
The Pew Charitable Trusts is publicizing OceanAdapt and our data showing fish moving towards higher latitudes and deeper. Check in out here: http://pew.org/1MSouGN!
New paper on the interaction of fishing and climate
Fishing and climate change: two of the largest human impacts on the ocean. But how do they interact? In a new paper just out in Ecosphere, Emma Fuller, Eleanor Brush, and I use an ecological model to build some intuition.
Climate change and lobster on NPR
EarthWise, a 2-minute NPR science show, just ran a piece on climate change and lobster that featured Malin. It’s well-done, though they made a big deal about lobster moving into Canada. This sounds more dire than some research would suggest:
New “Fish Baste” climate and fish seminar series starting up!
We host a monthly seminar series on climate and fish, which call “Fish Baste,” designed to increase dialogue and collaboration among members of Rutgers, Princeton, U. Maine, and NOAA, as well as among researchers in ecology, social science, and climate science.
Breeding like rabbits doesn’t work for fish
We have a new paper out in Proceedings B, “Fishing, fast growth and climate variability increase the risk of collapse.” Analyzing data from fisheries around the world, we show that patterns in the ocean are nearly the opposite of those
Jim Morley joins the lab as a postdoc!
Jim Morley started work back in early January, but as of last week, has joined us at Rutgers. He previously finished a Ph.D. with Jeff Buckel at NC State working on bluefish, and his interests include climate change, food webs,
A flurry of presentations
Ryan gave at talk at the ASLO meeting on February 25 in Grenada, Spain, “Long-term changes in North American coastal communities.” Malin presented a poster at the Kavli Frontiers of Science meeting in Jerusalem on February 24. Jim talked on
Where’s my fish? OceanAdapt website is live
Every wondered where you favorite fish is? In collaboration with NOAA Fisheries, we’ve launched a new website today called OceanAdapt that provides information on climate related changes in the distribution of the nation’s valuable marine fish stocks. There is growing
Lab fishing trip!
Our plans to head out fishing for fluke (inspired by our fluke genetics project) were dead in the water when the party boat stayed in port for repairs. Instead, we went out fishing for bluefish. A good 4-6′ swell, but
NSF Coastal SEES grant announced
The news about the Coastal SEES awards is now official: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=132637. We’re excited to get started on the collaboration with Kevin St. Martin, Eli Fenichel, Simon Levin, and Bonnie McCay! We’ll be focused on adaptation of fish and fisheries to