The National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) Professional Webinar Series is a development opportunity for middle and high school educators nationwide. All educators are welcome to register, and NOSB coaches are highly encouraged to participate.
The free online webinar series will focus on the 2016 NOSB competition theme of “Our Changing Ocean: Science for Strong Coastal Communities“.
Each of the presenters will give a one hour live webinar presentation on their current research or topic of interest, followed by a 30 minute Q&A session.
All participants logged into the meeting will be able to listen and follow along with the presentation, as well as type questions for the presenter during the live presentation. The NOSB national office staff will read the questions to the presenter.
Questions? Please contact us at nosb@ucar.edu.
Date of Webinar: November 2015
Topic/Title: Large-scale stressors affecting fisheries oceanography along US coasts.
Three case studies will be presented to consider if and how climate change, oil spills, and long term fishing pressure are changing the nature of fisheries species assemblages along historically productive coastal margins.
Dr. Joel Fodrie
Dr. Joel Fodrie is an Assistant Professor of fisheries oceanography and ecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studies the population dynamics of fishes and shellfish. He has conducted research along all three major US coastlines, as well as in the Baltic Sea and around the Galápagos Islands. Dr. Fodrie earned his PhD in Oceanography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2000-2006; University of California, San Diego) and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab (2006-2009; Dauphin Island, Alabama). He has contributed 43 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and manuscripts that explore mechanisms of population variability for fishery species. These articles appear in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, BioScience, Global Change Biology, Limnology & Oceanography, Ecology, and Ecological Applications.
