Socioeconomics Team

Maryland Sea Grant solicited nominations for members to serve on the Socioeconomic Quantitative Ecosystem Team from managers, academics, and stakeholders in the Chesapeake Bay region.  The team is complete and members, and their affiliations, are listed below.  Additionally, the Team will be supported by a Quantitative Support Staff (QSS), a PhD-level student who will assist the team with authoring documents, processing data, and developing models.  The Team will hold its first meeting in April and begin to analyze a series of key ecosystem issue briefs pertinent to Striped Bass produced by the Striped Bass Species Team.  As the Blue Crab and Menhaden Species Teams complete their ecosystem issue briefs these will also be evaluated by the Quantitative Ecosystem Teams.  The goal for the Socioeconomic Team is to produce a set of reference points required to address the ecosystem issues brought forth by each of the Species Teams pertaining to Socioeconomics.

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Lee Anderson, University of Delaware
Linda Barker, Maryland DNR
Ben Blount, Socioecological Informatics
Shirley Fiske,  Independent Consultant
Troy Hartley, VA Sea Grant
Doug Lipton, University of Maryland
Michael Orbach, Duke University
Michael Paolisso, University of Maryland
Len Shabman, Resources for the Future
Kristy Wallmo, NOAA
QSS: Kelley Appleman, University of Delaware