Lab Members

Principle Investigator

 

Yong CHEN
Professor of Fisheries Sciences
Office: Dana 107A     yong.chen.2@stonybrook.edu


Research interests:
fisheries ecology, fisheries population dynamics, stock assessment, and fisheries management
Yong Chen’s CV     Yong Chen’s Publications

 


Postdocs and Professional Staff

Natalia CASTRO  
Chen Lab Manager | HRBMP Coordinator
Office:   Dana 113A  natalia.castro@stonybrook.edu


Chen Lab logistics planning, communication, and grant management.

Hudson River Biological Monitoring Program (HRBMP)- Fall Juvenile Survey field operations. HRBMP biological collection management.

Yunzhou LI   more about Yunzhou
Research Scientist
Office: Discovery 121B    yunzhou.li@stonybrook.edu


Research interests:
marine protected areas, fisheries social-ecological systems, climate vulnerability and resilience, ocean management and policy.

 

 

Chengxue LI  
Research Scientist
Office: Dana 113  chengxue.li@stonybrook.edu


Research interests:
quantitative ecology, population dynamics, biological oceanography, fisheries stock assessment, management strategy evaluation, plankton ecology

 

Jia WO
Postdoc associate
Office:  jia.wo@stonybrook.edu


Research interests:
ecological model, multispecies and mixed fisheries, ecosystem-based fishery assessment and management

 

Jie YIN
Postdoc associate
Office:   jie.yin@stonybrook.edu


Research interests:
ecological modeling, impacts of climate changes, and climate-adaptive fisheries

 

 

Claire OBER
Postdoc associate
Office: Dana 159        claire.ober@stonybrook.edu


Research interests:
analyzing the potential impacts of offshore wind development as it intersects the topics of species distribution, population dynamics, habitat use, and fisheries management and policy


Ph.D. Candidates and Students

 

Stephanie ARSENAULT
Ph.D. candidate
Office: Dana 115B stephanie.arsenault@stonybrook.edu


Research interests:
fisheries ecology, population dynamics, habitat modeling, geospatial analysis, and application of GIS to fisheries management

 

Katrina ROKOSZ
Ph.D. candidate
Office: Dana 169   katrina.rokosz@stonybrook.edu


Research interests:
Hudson River Biological Monitoring Program Long River Survey analysis, modeling fish community dynamics, spatial and temporal changes to community structure.

 

Xiangyan YANG
Ph.D. candidate
Office: Dana 157 xiangyan.yang@stonybrook.edu 


Research interests:
Ecosystem modeling, climate change, sustainable fishery and marine spatial planning, currently focusing on developing an end-to-end model for the Hudson River Estuary and New York Bight ecosystem

 

Krystina BRAID
Ph.D. candidate
Office: Dana 157B  krystina.braid@stonybrook.edu


Research interests:
Fisheries ecology, stock assessments, using knowledge of life-history strategies/distribution to inform policy and management

 

 

Anh NGUYEN
Ph.D. student
Office: Dana 157      anh.nguyen.2@stonybrook.edu


Research interests:
biological characteristics, stomach analysis, stock evaluation, and fisheries management

 

 

Abigail COSTIGAN
Ph.D. student
Office:  abigail.costigan@stonybrook.edu 


Research interests:
Marine Protected Areas, the social and ecological systems that impact fisheries management, marine policy

 

Arthur J. MABAKA
Ph.D. student
Office:  arthur.mabaka@stonybrook.edu 


Research interests:
environmental impacts of offshore wind farm development, shellfish biology, and fisheries management and conservation

 

Sarah PRAISNER
Ph.D. student
Office:
sarah.praisner@stonybrook.edu


Research Interests:
fisheries ecology, climate change, fisheries conservation and management, bathymetric and geologic implications for fisheries

 

Xiangshan (Jenny) MU
Ph.D. student
Office:
xiangshan.mu@stonybrook.edu


Research Interests:
Hudson River Biological Monitoring Program analysis, Marine Fisheries Partnership

 

Yantong MEI
Ph.D. student
Office:
yantong.mei@stonybrook.edu


Research Interests:
Fisheries stock assessment and fisheries management

 

Jacquelynn TRAN
Ph.D. student
Office: Dana 159
jacquelynn.tran@stonybrook.edu


Research Interests:
Fisheries ecology and management, historical fish samples, climate change, and marine policy

 

Master Students

 

Molin (Molly) YANG
Master student
Office: Dana 157b
molin.yang@stonybrook.edu


Research Interests:
Fisheries management, Marine Protected Areas, Marine Conservation and policy, climate change.

 


 

Visiting Scholars

 

Xiaoxue Liu
PhD candidate (Shanghai Ocean University)
Office:           xiaoxue.liu@stonybrook.edu


Research interests:
fisheries ecology, species distribution modeling, spatio-temporal dynamics and climate change