Date: September 23, 2021

Series: National Stock Assessment Science Seminar Series

Presenters: Dr. Christine Stawitz, NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology; Dr. Richard Methot, NOAA Senior Scientist for Stock Assessments

Sponsor: NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and NOAA's Central Library (NCL)

Summary: The current generation of fisheries stock assessment models is aging and has limited ability to incorporate climate change, multispecies interactions, and socioeconomic pressures. The international assessment community is ready to move to improved software that is better equipped to model these factors. Next generation software presents an opportunity to develop an integrated framework for community-developed, open source models that are more comprehensive, flexible, and modular. To facilitate this, NOAA Fisheries is investing in a Fisheries Integrated Modeling System (FIMS), a collaborative stock assessment software system.

Bios: Dr. Christine Stawitz has a B.S. in Systems Engineering and a Ph.D. in Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management. Her Ph.D. and postdoctoral research focused on environmental impacts on fish population dynamics. She was recently hired to NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Science and Technology in the National Stock Assessment Program, where she leads development of the Fisheries Integrated Modeling System.

Dr. Richard Methot is NOAA’s Senior Scientist for Stock Assessments. He has a B.S. in Fisheries and a Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography. During nearly 40 years with NOAA, he has focused on using stock assessment models to inform fishery management and developing national guidelines. In 2008, Rick received the DOC Gold Medal for his Stock Synthesis assessment model.

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