Current Research Projects

My students, associates and I work closely with others in the Quantitative Fisheries Center, concentrating on projects of relevance to agencies with responsibility for management of Great Lakes fisheries. Our research activities include field and modeling studies of sea lamprey populations, development of fish population dynamics models, evaluation of population assessment techniques, and examination of the importance of uncertainty to fishery management decision making. Examples of current projects include:

• The dynamics of recruitment in larval sea lamprey populations
• Development and evaluation of alternative strategies for sea lamprey larval assessment
  
• Refining models to predict the timing of metamorphosis in sea lamprey populations
• Linking habitat supply and fish population dynamics using mechanistic population models
• Application of decision analysis to salmon fishery management in Lake Michigan
• Measuring natural mortality rates for lake whitefish and its relationship to fish health