This free public video seminar is delivered as a large-screen presentation in room P209 at the UA Kachemak Bay campus in Homer; a short question and answer session is provided at the end of the presentation.

Friday, April 26, 2024, 4:00 pm

Assessing the role of larval connectivity on kelp forest fisheries across the California Marine Protected Area network

Mallarie Yeager, Habitat Conservation Division, Alaska Regional Office, NOAA

Dr. Mallarie Yeager is a marine habitat resource specialist at the Alaska Regional Office in the Habitat Conservation Division. Trained as a quantitative marine ecologist, Mallarie has expertise in fish habitat associations, species distribution modeling, larval connectivity, functional trait analysis, predator-prey interactions, community and biodiversity analysis, and metapopulation dynamics. Mallarie has a Ph.D. in Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology from Northeastern University, an M.S. in Ecology from San Diego State University, and a B.S. in Biology from University of North Florida. Prior to joining the Alaska Regional Office, Mallarie was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz developing spatially explicit demographic population models to assess metapopulation persistence of five focal fisheries across the network of California marine protected areas.