Title: Oyster Futures: Testing a Consensus-driven Process
Speakers: Elizabeth North, Associate Professor and Michael Wilberg, Professor, both with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Sponsor: NOAA's National Ocean Service Science Seminar; coordinator is Tracy.Gill@noaa.gov
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Abstract: After decades of conflict over the oyster in Maryland, stakeholders in the oyster resource came to consensus through the science-based, facilitated Consensus Solutions process which was tested in the OysterFutures research program. This talk summarizes the process, the science, and the stakeholders' efforts that led to their sweeping and meaningful package of recommendations for oyster management in the Choptank region. About the Speakers: Elizabeth North is a fisheries oceanographer and Associate Professor at Horn Point Laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Her research focuses on the transport and ecology of fish and shellfish larvae, fisheries recruitment variability, estuarine physical oceanography, and oil droplet fate and transport. She is the lead developer of the Lagrangian TRANSport model (LTRANS), an open source 3D particle tracking model. For more information on Dr. North's research programs, please visit https://www.umces.edu/elizabeth-north.
Mike Wilberg is a fisheries science Professor at Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science in Solomons, MD. He has been at CBL since 2006 working on understanding population dynamics and management of a range of fish and shellfish species including oysters, blue crabs, American eel, paddlefish, and summer flounder. Before that he completed his Ph.D. and post doc at Michigan State University on improving and testing stock assessment approaches and evaluating management strategies for yellow perch in Lake Michigan. He completed an M.S. in Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point and a B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. Dr. Wilberg’s research interests include population dynamics, stock assessment, quantitative fisheries, management strategy evaluation, and fisheries management. For more information on Dr. Wilberg’s research, please visit http://wilberglab.cbl.umces.edu.
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(Elizabeth North, Associate Professor and Michael Wilberg, Professor, both with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)
When
Thu Apr 25, 2019 4pm – 5pm Coordinated Universal Time
