• Our lab focuses on quantitative fisheries ecology, population dynamics, and fisheries stock assessments and management.
• We investigate the interactions between commercial fishing, ecological variables, and dynamics of fisheries populations and communities.
• Our goal is to develop sustainable fisheries and ecosystem-based management approach, using an interdisciplinary approach of fisheries biology, ecology, management policy, decision-making theory, mathematical and statistical modeling, and computer simulations.

Research Projects

• Hudson River Biological Monitoring program (HRBMP)

  • Taskforce: Yong Chen, Patricia Woodruff, Hsiao-Yun Chang, Stephanie Arsenault, Katrina Rokosz

• Evaluating the changing biogeography of American shad in a changing Hudson River ecosystem

  • NY Sea Grant – PIs: Yong Chen, Hsiao-Yun Chang

• Marine Fisheries Partnership (David and Lucile Packard Foundation project)

  • David and Lucile Packard Foundation – PIs: Yong Chen, Yunzhou Li

• Social-ecological vulnerability of China’s domestic fisheries to climate change (Lenfest Ocean program project)

  • Lenfest Ocean Program – PIs: Yong Chen, Yunzhou Li