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
Senior Research Support Specialist
Office: natalia.castro@stonybrook.edu
Research interests:
Hudson River Biological Monitoring Program- Lead field operations and logistics for the Hudson River Fall Juvenile Survey. Support Chen Laboratory functions by providing technical and administrative assistance.
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.
Ming SUN more about Ming
Research Scientist
Office: Discovery 121B ming.sun@stonybrook.edu
Research interests:
stock assessment, offshore wind development and fisheries, HRBMP, management strategy evaluation, fisheries management, mixed fisheries
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
Ph.D. Candidates and Students
Nathan WILLSE
Ph.D. candidate
Office: Dana 169B nathaniel.willse@stonybrook.edu
Research interests:
identifying data gaps that hinder fisheries management, presently studying the overlap of endangered right whales and American lobster fishery
Robyn LINNER
Ph.D. candidate
Office: Dana 155 robyn.linner@stonybrook.edu
Research interests:
evaluating obstacles to the recovery of overexploited species through fisheries monitoring surveys, habitat suitability modeling, and stomach analysis
Claire OBER
Ph.D. candidate
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
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. student
Office: Discovery 143 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. student
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 157B 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
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
Ji FENG
Ph.D. student (Shanghai Ocean University)
Office: Ji.Feng.1@stonybrook.edu
Research interests:
fisheries stock assessment and management, fisheries ecology
Mingyang Xie
Postdoc (Shanghai Ocean University)
Office: mingyang.xie@stonybrook.edu
Research interests:
AI fisheries; fisheries forecasting; deep learning; pelagic fisheries; species distribution modelling; spatio-temporal scales; data cleaning
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