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Thursday, 11 March 2004
The Role of Science in Fisheries Management
Dr. Andrew Solow, Marine Policy Center, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
11:45 am - 2:00 pm, Perkins Room (E-415), 4th Floor, Eliot Building, KSG (Map)
Lunch will be served

Biography:

Andrew Solow is a Senior Scientist and Director of the Marine Policy Center at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). His field of research is environmental and ecological statistics. Solow's recent work has focused on reconstructing historical climate from biological proxies, inference about species extinction from sighting data, and estimating the rate of species introductions from the discovery record of introduced species. Dr. Solow has served on a variety of scientific advisory panels including the Science Advisory Panel to the U.S. Ocean Commission.

Background documents:

Jin, Di, Eric Thunberg, Hauke Kite-Powell, and Kevin Blake. 2002. "Total Factor Productivity Change in the New England Groundfish Fishery: 1964-1993." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 44: 540-556.

Murawski, S. A. 1996. "Can We Manage Our Multispecies Fisheries?" In The Northeast Shelf Ecosystem: Assessment, Sustainability, and Management, edited by K. Sherman et al. Cambridge: Blackwell Science.

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