FISHERIES CLIMATE TOOLKIT - Key Persons

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• Assistant Professor at the School of Aquatic

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• Research Scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research

Dr. Katherine Mills is a research scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine. She earned her Ph.D. in Natural Resources at Cornell University. As a quantitative fisheries ecologist, Kathy studies (1) how physical and ecosystem conditions are changing; (2) how these changes affect fish populations, biological communities, and marine fisheries; and (3) how fisheries and fishing communities can effectively respond. Much of her work is interdisciplinary, seeking to understand and inform management of fisheries as coupled social-ecological systems. This research integrates climate, ecological, social and economic information to link changes in the ecosystem to societal outcomes. Climate adaptation within marine fisheries has become a major recent focus, with emphases on assessing climate adaptation strategies and providing new forms of information to support adaptation planning by fishery participants, fishing communities and fishery managers.

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• Research Ecologist With NOAA 's Southwest Fisheries Science Center

Elliott Hazen is a Research Ecologist with NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center and helps co-lead UCSC's Climate and Ecosystems Group, applying statistical approaches to understanding ecosystem interactions. His general research interests fall in the realm of Ecology and Ecological Modeling, focusing on species-environment relationships and predator-prey interactions. Most recently, his research has focused on using multiple data types to inform novel applied management approaches. He received his Master's of Science in 2003 from the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2008.

Nima Farchadi is a marine ecologist in Dr. Rebecca Lewison's Conservation Ecology Lab at San Diego State University (SDSU). At SDSU, Nima's research focuses on improving our understanding of the spatial dynamics and habitat preferences of marine species and ocean users using a suite of ecological models, geospatial tools, and remote sensing. He is especially interested in applying this ecological information to improve fisheries management and help support long-term economic sustainability in conjunction with conservation of marine biodiversity. Nima received a B.S. in Biology from the University of Maryland and a M.Sc. in Marine Science from University of San Diego. He is currently a PhD candidate in the SDSU-UC Davis Joint Doctoral Program in Ecology.

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• Project Scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz

Steph is a project scientist at the University of California Santa Cruz and the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). She is an ecologist with a broad interest in biogeography, fisheries, and animal ecophysiology. She has expertise in quantitative analyses and using diverse data sets to examine pelagic predator ecology and the roles that oceanographic processes play in species distributions. Steph is interested in applied research and understanding how climate change and variability is affecting living marine resources and dependent marine communities. Steven Bograd is an oceanographer at the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Monterey, CA, where he leads the Climate-Ecosystem Group. Steven's research interests are in the climate impacts on marine ecosystems, with a focus on eastern boundary upwelling systems. Steven currently co-chairs the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) flagship science program, FUTURE, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Fisheries Oceanography. Steven also co-leads two United Nations Decade of Ocean Science programs (SUPREME and SMARTNET). Steven received a B.S. in physics (University of Arizona), a M.S. in atmospheric sciences (University of Washington), and a PhD in physical oceanography (University of British Columbia). He did a post-doc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography before joining NOAA in 2001.