Towards a better understanding of fish contribution to carbon flux: Working Group Meeting

Bios, Working Group Participants

Grace Saba

(B.S. Aquatic Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D. Marine Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary)

Grace Saba is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University and a faculty member in the Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership (RU COOL). Her broad research interests are in the fields of coastal marine organismal ecology and physiology, with emphasis on how organisms interact with their environment and other organisms, how physiological processes impact biogeochemistry, and how climate change impacts these processes.

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Adrian Burd

(B.S. Astronomy, University College London, UK; M.A.St. Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, UK; D.Phil Astronomy, Sussex University, UK)

Dr. Burd works on process-based models of particulate carbon flux in marine systems. In particular, he specializes in modeling interactions of particles with each other, with dissolved material, and with organisms through production and consumption of particulate material. He is currently working on projects involving modeling the formation and sinking of marine-oil-snow (oil incorporated into marine snow) and on various pathways of carbon export.

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John Dunne

(B.S. Oceanography, M.S. Oceanography, Ph.D. Oceanography, University of Washington)

Dr. Dunne is an oceanographer at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and leads the Biogeochemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, and Ecosystems Division.  He is a lead developer of GFDL's climate and earth system models focusing on applications for coupled carbon-climate interactions and marine ecosystem impacts.  In addition to his modeling focus he brings experience in ocean biogeochemical instrument design, process surveys, and observational synthesis.

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Santiago Hernández León

(B.S. Biology, M.S. Oceanography, Ph.D. Oceanography, Universidad de La Laguna Canary Islands)

Dr. Santiago Hernández-León is professor (chair) of zoology at the Institute of Oceanography and Global Change in the Canary Islands. His research interest is related to the effect of climate on the ecology and physiology of plankton communities. He worked on the role of zooplankton and micronekton in the oceanic carbon flux, and he is especially interested in the assessment of active flux due to vertical migrants in subtropical waters.

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Stephanie Hunnisett

(B.S. Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S. Marine Environmental Science, Stony Brook University; Ph.D. Marine Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary)

Dr. Hunnisett is a zooplankton ecologist and biological oceanographer. Her research focuses on how zooplankton influence POC repackaging, contribute to the biological pump, and feed on pico- and nanoplankton. Her research interests include the impacts of climate variation on zooplankton (most recently coastal jellyfish population dynamics) distribution, abundance, and carbon flux through various systems.

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Angela Martin

(B.Sc. Marine Biology, University of Portsmouth, UK; M.Sc. Marine Biology, University of Essex, UK)

Angela Martin in a Research Associate and PhD student at the University of Agder in South Norway. Her research focuses on the role of fish in the ocean carbon cycle, including direct interactions through bioenergetics, behaviour and movement, and indirect effects such as top-down ecosystem controls and nutrient cycling. Angela is working with well-studied species to supplement existing knowledge with outcomes for carbon. Angela previously communicated on fish carbon science and applications, and advocated for advancement of the topic through her work with Blue Climate Solutions, a project of The Ocean Foundation.

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Kenneth Rose

(B.S. Biology and Mathematics, University at Albany; M.S. Fisheries, University of Washington; Ph.D. Fisheries, University of Washington)

Dr. Rose is the France-Merrick Professor in Sustainable Ecosystem Restoration at Horn Point Lab, which is part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Prior to coming to Horn Point in 2017, he was the Associate Dean for Research in the College of the Coast and Environment at Louisiana State University. He started at Oak Ridge National Lab after getting his graduate degrees at University of Washington in Fisheries. His focus is on ecological and fisheries modeling of fish populations, communities, and food webs, and lately he has been coupling the models to 2D and 3D hydrodynamic ocean models to examine ecosystem-based fisheries management and effects of climate change.

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Joseph Salisbury

(B.A. Geology/Earth Sciences, University of Southern Maine; M.S. Educational Leadership/Public Policy University of Southern Maine; Ph.D. Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire)

Joe Salisbury is an Associate Professor at the ocean Processes Analysis Lab at the University of New Hampshire. His research seeks to characterize distributions of carbon dioxide, air-sea carbon exchange and productivity in riverine-influenced coastal regions. In addition, Joe is presently developing methods for understanding community productivity dynamics and plume detection using satellite ocean color and salinity data.

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Deborah Steinberg

(B.A. Aquatic Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara; Ph.D. Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz)

Dr. Deborah Steinberg is CSX Professor of Marine Science and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary.  Her major areas of interest are zooplankton ecology and biogeochemical cycling, and effects of climate change on zooplankton community structure.  Her current funded research projects include the Palmer Antarctica Long-Term Ecological Research program, Export Processes in the Ocean from Remote Sensing, and the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, and past Chair of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System Council.  Dr. Steinberg has won awards for her research and teaching, including the American Geophysical Union’s Sverdrup Award and the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award.

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Clive Trueman

(B.Sc. Geology, University of Bristol, Ph.D. Geochemistry, University of Bristol)

Clive Trueman is an Associate Professor in the School of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, UK. Clive is a geochemical ecologist interested primarily in using natural tracers such as stable isotopes to track the flow of nutrients through food webs and across space.

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Rod Wilson

(B.Sc. Biological Sciences, University of Birmingham; Ph.D. Fish Physiology and Ecotoxicology, University of Birmingham)

Rod Wilson is a Professor in the Department of Biosciences at the University of Exeter, UK. He is a fish physiologist interested in multiple physiological systems (e.g. respiration, osmoregulation, acid-base regulation, digestion, excretion etc.) and how the physico-chemical environment (in the past, present and future) can influence these processes (and fish populations) and vice versa, i.e. the role marine animals can play in regulating ocean biogeochemical cycles.

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Bios, Special Guest Presenters

Olaf Jensen

(B.A. Biology and Society, Cornell University; M.S. Marine Science, University of Maryland – Chesapeake Biological Lab; Ph.D Limnology, University of Wisconsin)

Olaf Jensen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University. His primary research interest is the study of fisheries and aquatic ecosystems – including marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Much of his work focuses on understanding the status and trends of harvested fish and invertebrate populations and the fishery management strategies that provide the best tradeoff between harvest and conservation within a dynamic aquatic environment. His methods range from field and laboratory studies of individual fish populations and their prey in New Jersey, Louisiana, Mexico, and Mongolia to global meta-analysis using large fishery databases.

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Charles Stock

(BSE, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University; MSE, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford; PhD, Oceanography, Woods Hole-MIT Joint Program)

Charlie Stock is a Research Oceanographer at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). The main objectives of his research are understanding and predicting marine ecosystems dynamics from seasons to centuries through the integration of models and observations.  He is a member of GFDL's earth system model development team, and works closely with fisheries and marine resource scientists to apply climate and earth system predictions to marine resource problems.