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.
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.
Research Interests:
Hudson River Biological Monitoring Program analysis, Marine Fisheries Partnership
Yantong MEI
Ph.D. student
Office:
yantong.mei@stonybrook.
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