Nye Lab, 2015

Janet is shifting her distribution  In July, I will be moving to start a faculty position at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Institute of Marine Science in Morehead City, NC.  If you are a prospective student interested in laboratory-based work and modeling, please check out the graduate program in Marine Science at UNC-Chapel Hill and contact me.  The research in my lab remains the same, but now with a little southern twist.

The Nye lab is focused on quantitative methods in fisheries ecology.  Our lab uses a combination of laboratory, field studies and quantitative techniques to study fish populations and marine and estuarine ecosystems.  We conduct research on a variety of issues in fisheries ecology, but our current research is focused on how climate variability and anthropogenic climate change including ocean acidification affects marine ecosystems and fisheries. Past research examined shifts in spatial distribution of fish in response to warming water temperatures and fishing. Current research seeks to understand the mechanisms behind shifts in abundance and distribution in response to climate as well as how large scale climate variability (like the NAO and AMO) translates to more local oceanographic processes and how those processes influence fish populations and North Atlantic ecosystems.  We work with climate scientists using global climate models to project changes in abundance and distribution of living marine resources.  We also conduct research  on the basic ecology and physiology of fishes in waters around Long Island. An important emphasis of our work is to look holistically at the many drivers of environmental change such that our research can be used to inform ecosystem-based management.

Contact:

Dr. Janet Nye
Assistant Professor
107 Dana Hall
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000