Jie Cao
Education
Ph.D., Marine Biology, University of Maine (2015)
Research Interests
My research is in the general area of quantitative fisheries ecology with an emphasis on population dynamics and ecosystem modeling. I am most interested in ecologically motivated and statistically innovative research that may improve science-based natural resource management. Specifically, I evaluate and develop quantitative techniques for assessing the past and current status of fish and invertebrate populations. This includes optimizing sampling schemes; developing more biologically realistic assessment models; estimating biological processes that vary over space and time; evaluating management strategies; and exploring how to manage marine populations in the face of climate change. The results are used to inform management decision making in US and international marine management bodies. As such, I work closely with state, federal and international natural resource agencies.
Publications
- Evaluating impacts of environmental stress and bioactive chemicals on the North Carolina blue crab population: An individual-based model, MARINE AND COASTAL FISHERIES (2024)
- Fishery management strategies for Red Snapper in the southeastern US Atlantic: A spatial population model to compare approaches, NORTH AMERICAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (2024)
- Numerical simulation-based hydrodynamic interaction of bottom-set gillnet with current and ecological implications, OCEAN ENGINEERING (2024)
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of Atlantic reef fishes off the southeastern US coast, ECOSPHERE (2024)
- Spatiotemporal dynamics of dolphinfish<i> (Coryphaena</i><i> hippurus)</i> in the western Atlantic Ocean, FISHERY BULLETIN (2024)
- A step towards the integration of spatial dynamics in population dynamics models: Eastern Bering Sea snow crab as a case study, ECOLOGICAL MODELLING (2023)
- Integrating information from semi-structured interviews into management strategy evaluation: a case study for Southeast United States marine fisheries (vol 9, 1063260, 2022), FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE (2023)
- Comparison of nominal and standardized catch per unit effort data in quantifying habitat suitability of skipjack tuna in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, ACTA OCEANOLOGICA SINICA (2022)
- Integrating information from semi-structured interviews into management strategy evaluation: a case study for Southeast United States marine fisheries, Frontiers in Marine Science (2022)
- Modeling time-varying natural mortality in size-structured assessment models, Fisheries Research (2022)