By Lead Scientist

Eayrs, Steve

Testing raised webbing gillnets to reduce bycatch of cod while targeting Pollock


Evaluating the discard of monkfish caught as bycatch in Northeast multi-species DAS and directed monkfish trips: an application of the study fleet electronic logbook program


Analysis of size selectivity and bycatch in the gillnet fishery for monkfish


Development of a fuel efficient demersal trawl and application of an Environmental Management System into the groundfish fishery


Commercial fishing vessel electronic trip reporting pilot study


An assessment of hanging ratio and mesh orientation on twin top selectivity of the general category scallop dredge fishery in scallop limited access areas.


Grabowski, Ph.D., Jonathan

A tagging study to assess monkfish (Lophius americanus) movements and stock structure in the northeastern United States


Movements, Growth, and Habitat Use of Monkfish, Lophius americanus, based on Archival Tagging and Otolith Elemental Analyses


Assessment of nursery habitats in Casco Bay.


Evaluation of closed areas: Cashes Ledge as juvenile cod habitat; Mapping juvenile cod habitat on Cashes Ledge to evaluate groundfishing closures.


Restoring oyster reefs to recover ecosystem services; the bioeconomic value of ecosystem goods and services provided by oyster reefs.


The effects of herring bait on lobster population dynamics and the benthic community.


Large-scale (from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to the Gulf of Maine) migratory patterns of monkfish (Lophius americanus) populations in the Northwestern Atlantic.


Holland, Ph.D., Daniel S.

The benefits and risks of increased spatial resolution in management of New England groundfish stocks.


Linking ecology, economics, and fleet dynamics to evaluate alternative management strategies for US West Coast trawl fisheries.


Direct and indirect coupling of fisheries through economic, regulatory, environmental and ecological linkages


Pershing, Ph.D., Andrew

Shore-based Photogrammetry of Surface Oceanography for Oil Spill Mitigation


Models of Copepod Growth and Abundance


Right Whale Predictions for the Gulf of Maine.


CAFE Gulf of Maine.


Runge, Ph.D., Jeffrey

PULSE: A cooperative partnership for Coastal Ocean Ecosystem Monitoring in the Gulf of Maine.


Sherwood, Ph.D., Graham

Automated acoustic monitoring of haddock in Closed Area I (Georges Bank).


Exploring the potential inadvertent effects of Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank area closures on cod life-history variation


A tagging study to assess monkfish (Lophius americanus) movements and stock structure in the northeastern United States


A weight-of-evidence approach for validating age and growth in US monkfish (Lophius americanus) stocks


Penobscot River restoration: Monitoring marine-freshwater food web linkages using stable isotopes


Collaborative Research: Direct and Indirect coupling of fisheries through economic, regulatory, environmental and ecological linkages


Collaborative Research: Can bottom-up effects influence energetic condition of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) in the Gulf of Maine?


Stable isotope characterization of feeding ecology in Gulf of Maine herring (Clupea harengus) and relation to condition and recruitment variability


Movements, Growth, and Habitat Use of Monkfish, Lophius americanus, based on Archival Tagging and Otolith Elemental Analyses


Stockwell, Ph.D., Jason

The importance of the larval stage to cisco (Coregonus artedi) recruitment variation in the great lakes


Can bottom-up effects influence energetic condition of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) in the Gulf of Maine?


Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) Stock Structure in the Gulf of Maine


Effects of fishing on herring aggregations


Developing and testing models of cisco (Coregonus artedi) population dynamics in Lake Superior: implications for restoration in the lower Great Lakes.


Empirical evaluation of predator-driven diel vertical migration in Lake Superior


Tallack, Ph.D., Shelly M.L.

Escape vent selectivity, bycatch and discard survivability in the New England fishery for deep water red crab, Chaceon quinquedens.


An industry-science partnership investigating the short-term and long-term discard mortality of spiny dogfish using hook gear in Gulf of Maine waters.


Do rare earth metals deter spiny dogfish? A feasibility study on the use of Mischmetals to reduce dogfish catches in hook and lobster gear in Gulf of Maine.


Haddock migration in New England waters: Analysis of movements between stocks and closed areas.


Northeast Regional Cod Tagging Program