Quantitative Fisheries Science

Quantitative Fisheries Science (Ault, Babcock, Bakun, Die, Ehrhardt, Serafy, Thomas develops the science to manage the human use of complex marine ecosystems, including both consumptive and sport fisheries. The group specializes in development of new theory and methods to understand the dynamics of multispecies communities in coral reef, coastal, and pelagic ecosystems, with emphasis on the sustainability of fish and macroinvertebrate stocks in the tropics and subtropics. A particular innovative aspect is the use of advanced technologies and high performance computing to couple atmosphere-ocean dynamics with recruitment, ontogeny, migration and mature adult population dynamics. Academic program focuses on basic and applied research on statistical survey design and monitoring, marine population dynamics, fishery and ecosystem ecology, mathematical modeling of populations and ecosystems, applied statistics, stock assessment, risk analysis, and fishery management science.