Marine Semester Lecturer
Dr. Paul Simonin’s research and teaching are a blend of ecological and social science focused on fisheries ecology and management. Harvest of wild fish is one of the last large-scale food-based relationships remaining between human society and nature, but local and global environmental changes have degraded fisheries in many places. His research investigates the effects of environmental change on the ecology and management of fisheries systems, with a particular focus on understanding interactions between (1) climate change, abiotic conditions, and fish ecology; (2) overfishing and fish community sustainability; and (3) invasive species and native species recruitment. Much of his work over the past ten years has been conducted at collaborative field stations and science centers, particularly in Southeast Asia, North America, East Africa, and the Caribbean, with the goal of improving fisheries sustainability.