The Fisheries Economics Team conducts social science research on issues important to the management of fisheries, protected species, and ecosystems. Team members participate in a variety of working groups, including those focused on hatchery review, stock assessment improvement, amendment of fishery management plans, and genetic stock identification.
Research themes include population dynamics, demography, statistical methods for natural resource management, and stock assessment. The Fisheries Assessment Modeling Team studies fishery dynamics, assessment, and ecology, providing scientific support to salmon and groundfish fishery management. Starting in 1983 and originally limited to California’s central coast, the survey expanded in 2004 to include the entire California coastline. The Fisheries and Ecosystem Oceanography Team conducts an annual midwater trawl survey of pelagic juvenile rockfish and other groundfish, along with forage species such as krill, market squid, anchovies, and sardines. We apply these tools to predict recruitment in harvested fish populations, estimate state-dependent species interactions, and understand synchrony and asynchrony in marine metapopulations. The Ecosystem Forecasting Team develops new approaches to modeling complex systems and make use of recent developments in other fields like nonlinear dynamics, physics, and machine learning. We use a variety of research approaches including oceanographic data collection, laboratory analysis of chemical and biological samples, numerical and statistical modeling, and development and application of ecological theory. The Cooperative Fisheries Oceanography Research Team (CFORT) is based at Cal Poly Humboldt and conducts research focused on the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem, particularly that portion off northern California. Cooperative Fisheries Oceanography Research Our work focuses on the interface between physics and biology, with the goal of developing a mechanistic understanding of the processes that determine how individuals respond to their environments. The Biophysical Ecology Team conducts ecological research on anadromous fish (Pacific salmon and sturgeon) in California. We also assess the stocks of species targeted by various fisheries, and assist in evaluating potential impacts of human activities on threatened or endangered species. Our scientists focus on causes of variability in abundance and health of fish populations, ecological relations in marine communities, and the economics of exploiting and protecting natural resources. Results of this research are used by the Pacific Fishery Management Council to manage fisheries and by NOAA Fisheries to manage threatened and endangered species and their habitats. Anadromous species include coho and chinook salmon, steelhead, and green sturgeon. Demersal species under study include rockfishes, flatfishes, Pacific whiting, sablefish, and lingcod. For details, please click here.The Fisheries Ecology Division studies California demersal and anadromous fishes, their fisheries, and their habitats.
The National Weather Service prepares its forecasts and other services in collaboration with agencies like the US Geological Survey, US Bureau of Reclamation, US Army Corps of Engineers, Natural Resource Conservation Service, National Park Service, ALERT Users Group, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and many state and local emergency managers across the country. US Geological Survey Real-Time Streamflow Data for AZ.NWS Precipitation and River Forecasting.National Weather Service Tucson Weather Field Office.
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