Postdoc, PhD

Jennifer Devine

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I am employed by the Population Genetics and Ecology group at the Institute of Marine Research. Currently, I am estimating probabilistic maturation reaction norms in Barents Sea haddock.
 
I previously worked as a fisheries scientist in the middle depth fisheries and acoustics group at NIWA (Wellington, NZ) for 3 years. I worked on a variety of projects including: mesopelagic studies on the Chatham Rise, seamounts, and in the Arabian Sea; building seamount risk assessment models; analyses of commercial fisheries and research data; participation in acoustic and trawl surveys; and completion of ex situ target strength experiments of myctophids and paddle crabs (and any other poor organism that happened to end up in the net on a dull night).
 
During my doctorate, I analyzed trends in deep-sea and shelf species in the Canadian Northwest Atlantic.
 
My MSc work was a bioenergetics study of Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior.
 
I spent two years at the University of Glasgow's freshwater field station on Loch Lomond after my undergraduate degree. There, I attempted an acoustic and gillnet study of fish populations in Loch Lomond. Unfortunately, the fish evaded capture, but I did catch one drunk fishermen in my gillnets (a catch and release study). I also examined changes in reproductive strategy of an invasive species.