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Research InterestsA simple decision tree 

My primary research interests center around understanding fish population dynamics and applying quantitative tools such as simulation modeling and decision analysis to practical fishery management problems. My research has a strong applied flavor, and frequently involves working closely with fishery management agencies. I am especially interested in the challenge of determining critical uncertainties for fishery management, and the related question of assigning an appropriate value to reducing uncertainty. I like my research program, and thus my students' projects, to comprise a mixture of empirical and theoretical work: field and experimental studies; modeling and analysis.

Some of the problems that my students and I have tackled include (the superscripts refer by number to related publications listed here):

  • sea lamprey control in the St. Marys River9
  • evaluation and refinement of larval assessment methods for sea lamprey control10, 18, 23
  • recruitment dynamics of sea lamrpeys and their implications for alternative control4,5
  • energy dynamics of Great Lakes Chinook salmon13, 20
  • assessment of Lake Michigan salmonine stocking policies using decision analysis15,16
  • development of efficient assessment methods for determining fish species composition of Great Lakes streams21,22
  • habitat supply-population dynamics models for Lake Erie walleye, Lake Superior lake trout, andlake trout with lamprey attached Lake Superior cisco12, 25
  • evaluation of harvest policies for Lake Erie walleye and Lake Michigan yellow perch using decision analysis14, 16, 24
  • factors influencing differences in natural mortality rates among lake whitefish stocks