Experts Guide

Ainsworth's research areas include fisheries management, food webs, marine ecosystems, population dynamics, population modeling and statistics.

Stallings’ lab studies basic concepts in ecology to inform marine conservation and management efforts. His research focuses on estimating marine life abundance and understanding the ecological processes that shape populations and communities, especially the impacts of human activities like fishing and coastal development.

Murawski is a biological oceanographer with a focus on fisheries, including population dynamics of exploited marine species and the impacts of human-caused stresses on marine ecosystems. He can also discuss ocean mapping and underwater technologies. He is director and principal investigator of the Center for Ocean Mapping and Innovative Technologies, a cooperative agreement between the NOAA Office of Coast Survey and USF to develop technologies to map undersea ocean and coastal regions.