Michelle Staudinger
Contact Information
Phone: 207- 563-8304
Office: Darling Marine Center, Flowing Seawater Laboratory
Email: michelle.staudinger@maine.edu
Lab website: https://umaine.edu/staudingerlab/
Address:
193 Clark’s Cove Road
Walpole, ME 04573
Education
Ph.D., Marine Science & Technology; Natural Resources Conservation, UMass Amherst, 2010
M.S., Marine & Atmospheric Science, Stony Brook University, 2004
B.S., Marine Biology; Environmental Science, Boston University, 1997
Description
Our laboratory group is committed to using collaborative, inclusive, and interdisciplinary approaches to address the unprecedented challenges that global change brings to the fields of fisheries management and marine conservation. We work across a wide range of coastal and marine habitats, spanning the intertidal zone to the deep sea.
Key focal areas of our research program seek to understand how climate change effects the distribution, abundance, and trophic relationships among species. Of particular interest is the ecosystem role that forage fishes, such as squid, sand lances, and herring play in supporting the energetic demands of protected and managed predatory fishes, marine mammals, and seabirds.
To achieve our research goals, we incorporate statistical models, data synthesis, laboratory, and field methodologies and work closely with a range of partners to coproduce science that is directly usable for decision making and the sustainable management of natural resources.
Research Interests:
Fish ecology, climate change, marine conservation
Courses:
SMS 598 – Climate Change Impacts on Marine Resources (Spring)
TBD – Semester by the Sea (Fall)
