Center for Fisheries and Ocean Sustainability
Vision
The Rutgers Center for Fisheries and Ocean Sustainability is a globally recognized source for science that addresses the challenges of managing fisheries and aquaculture as well as conserving biodiversity in our rapidly changing environment.
Our Mission
The Rutgers Center for Fisheries and Ocean Sustainability expands the reach and visibility of fisheries and aquaculture research at Rutgers through 1) active collaboration with allies in industry, government, and conservation NGOs, 2) a vibrant education program centered around graduate programs in Oceanography and Ecology & Evolution, and 3) the innovative undergraduate minor in Fisheries Science. The center hosts a distinguished speaker series to bring top researchers to Rutgers for a seminar and meetings with students and faculty, provides graduate student conference travel funding, and hosts an annual Academic-Industry conference to enhance research partnerships between Rutgers and New Jersey’s commercial and recreational fishing industry.
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Affiliated Faculty
Name
Research Interests
Department
Kenneth Able
Life history and ecology of fishes with emphasis on habitat quality as it relates to recruitment
Website
DMCS/RUMFS
Eleanor Bochenek
Fisheries and marine resource management with emphasis in gear technology, bycatch, discards, mortality, socioeconomics, and habitat degradation as well as fisheries management issues and policies
Website
DMCS/HSRL
David Bushek
Host-parasite interactions in bivalve molluscs and understanding the ecological impact of bivalves, particularly the eastern oyster, at the population, community and ecosystem levels
Website
DMCS/HSRL
Lisa Calvo
Outreach and education through a community-based oyster restoration project—Project PORTS: Promoting Oyster Restoration Through Schools
Website
DMCS/HSRL
Enrique Curchitser
Ocean circulation and its role in the climate system, dynamics of circulation, physical-biological interactions, coupled Earth System Models, and multi-scale climate dynamics and numerical modeling
Website
DES
Michael De Luca
Development, growth, and prosperity of aquaculture in New Jersey and the Mid-Atlantic region, capitalizing on environmental sampling and sensing networks to inform coastal management, and enriching K-12 science education
Website
DMCS/NJAES/NJAIC
Thomas (Motz) Grothues
Mechanisms of establishment and maintenance of fish populations, including larval recruitment dynamics, dispersion, physiological ecology, invasion biology, and migration biology
Website
DMCS/RUMFS
Josh Kohut
Applying ocean observing technologies that sample across time and space to better understand the physical ocean that structures marine ecosystems
Website
DMCS
Bonnie McCay (emerita)
Challenges and policies for managing common pool resources such as fish and shellfish, with particular attention to intersections of ecology, community, and social institutions of science
Website
Human Ecology
Daphne Munroe
Spatial and temporal patterns of larval settlement in coastal and marine ecosystems and their influence on invertebrate populations using a combination of computer modeling, field-based research, and laboratory experiments
Website
DMCS/HSRL
Victoria Ramenzoni
Mixed methods, behavioral ecology, cognitive sciences, decision-making, climate change, marine and coastal policy
Website
Human Ecology
Grace Saba
Coastal marine organismal ecology and physiology, with emphasis on how organisms interact with their environment and other organisms, how physiological processes impact biogeochemistry, and how climate change impacts these processes
Website
DMCS
Sarah Smith
Intersection of fisheries policy and social science, quantitative and qualitative methods, environmental policy, natural resource management
Human Ecology
Kevin St. Martin
Development and institutionalization of economic and environmental discourse
Website
Geography
John Wiedenmann
Marine population and ecosystem dynamics, fisheries management, and foraging behavior of marine mammals
Website
DEENR
Douglas Zemeckis
Informing the assessment and management of fishery resources using field-based surveys or tagging studies to investigate fish population structure, seasonal movements, discard mortality, or spawning dynamics
Website
NJAES