Elizabeth A Babcock

I work on fisheries stock assessment and quantitative ecological modelling, with focal species including sharks, tunas, billfishes, sturgeons, conchs and lobsters. The use of innovative data sources and analysis methods such as Bayesian statistics to inform conservation and management of fisheries for which traditional fisheries data are lacking is a primary focus of my research, including Bayesian statistical analysis. I am interested in the interface between marine reserves and fishery management, for example at Glover’s Reef Marine Reserve, in Belize, where I have studied the effectiveness of the marine reserve for sharks, finfish, lobsters and conchs. I am interested using ecosystem models for management strategy evaluation of the implications of scientific uncertainty about fish biology on the effectiveness of spatial management strategies.