Early Career Speakers:

Dr Marta Coll
Institute of Marine Science, Spain
http://www.fmap.ca/people.php?pid=55

Marta Coll Montón is a researcher at the Institute of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC) located in Barcelona (Spain). Her research interests are focused on analyzing threats to, and changes of, marine biodiversity and ecosystems, investigating food-web dynamics and describing macro-ecological patterns. She investigates how changes in marine biodiversity and resources are translated into changes in ecosystem structure and functioning, and the services that humans obtain from the ocean. She applies ecological modeling techniques and indicators using historical data, fisheries data, experiments and field data analysis. She developed her PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Institute of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC) from 2002-2006. During her PhD she analyzed the structure and functioning of exploited Mediterranean marine ecosystems and quantified the impact of fishing. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Biology Department of Dalhousie University from 2007-2008 and a Marie Curie Fellow from 2009-2011, working on the analysis of biodiversity changes on structural and functional properties of marine ecosystems under cumulative human stressors.

Dr Emanuele Di Lorenzo
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
http://iManu.org

Dr. Emanuele Di Lorenzo is an Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D. in oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2003. His research interests and experience span a wide range of topics from physical oceanography to ocean climate and marine ecosystems. More specific focus is on dynamics of basin and regional ocean circulation, inverse modeling, Pacific low-frequency variability, and impacts of large-scale climate variability on marine ecosystem dynamics. In PICES he is co-chair of the Working group on North Pacific Climate Variability & Change and member of the Climate Ocean Variability and Ecosystem Advisory Panel (COVE-AP). He also serves on the US Comparative Analysis of Marine Ecosystem (CAMEO) Science Steering Committee.

Dr Eun Jung Choy
Korean Polar Research Institute, Korea
http://www.kopri.re.kr/english/eng_about/eng_staff/staffEng.do

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Dr Abigail McQuatters-Gollop
Sir Alistair Hardy Foundation of Ocean Science (SAHFOS), UK
http://www.sahfos.ac.uk/about-us/staff/abigail-mcquatters-gollop.aspx

Abigail McQuatters-Gollop is the Science-Policy Researcher at the Sir Alistair Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS) where she is responsible for developing policy-related research and science-policy integration activities. Current research focuses on the applicability of phytoplankton as indicators for environmental change in European seas and on the synergistic effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbance on marine ecosystems. Abigail is leading UK pelagic indicator and target development for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive through Defra. She is also working on the EU FP7 project Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe's Seas (KnowSeas).

Dr Malin Pinsky
Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
http://palumbi.stanford.edu/PeoplePages/Pinsky.html

Malin Pinsky is currently a David H. Smith Conservation ResearchFellow at Princeton University and holds a Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University. His research aims to understand how exploitation and global change impact the abundance and distribution of marine species and the ecosystem services we derive from them. He pairs meta-analysis of global data, largely on marine fishes, with more detailed local research, primarily on clownfish and pinnipeds, to better understand how local population dynamics scale up to global patterns. A strong motivation for this research is the search for more effectiv e marine conservation strategies, and he partners with The Nature Conservancy, NOAA Fisheries, and local conservation groups in the Philippines to pursue this goal. He grew up in Maine, USA and holds an A.B. in Biology and Environmental Studies from Williams College.

Dr Akinori Takasuka
Research Center for Fisheries Management, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan
http://club.pep.ne.jp/~polypterus/index.htm

Akinori Takasuka is currently a Senior Researcher at National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency (Yokohama, Japan) and an Affiliate Associate Professor of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. He finished PhD work on growth and survival of anchovy during the early life stages at Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo in 2003. His interests have been directed to the mechanisms of fish population dynamics as a fisheries biologist. The current main topics are biological mechanisms of species alternations, growth-based survival mechanisms during early life stages, and spawning biology of small pelagic fish species.