María José Juan Jordá
Discipline: Fisheries
Title: PhD Student
Contact Information:
Office: Recursos Marinos y Pesquerias
Departmento de Biologia Animal, Vegetal y Ecologia
Universidade A Coruña
Campus A Zapateira s/n
15071, A Coruña, Spain
Office Phone: +34-981167000, ext. 2204
Fax : +34-981167065
email: mjuanjorda@gmail.com
RESEARCH INTEREST
My main areas of interest are fisheries oceanography, fish ecology and marine conservation.
CURRENT RESEARCH
My PhD research focuses on the evaluation of the effects of fishing on a range of Scombridae species on a global scale using meta-analysis techniques and the comparative method. More specifically, I am assessing the relative importance of life history, fishing patterns and environmental factors on the status and dynamics of a range of Scombridae species. One key point of the research will be to develop methods that consider the evolutionary relationship when combining information across species for the assessment of current and future stock status indicators. This will be a global study where I will apply Bayesian meta-analysis methods to combine data sets and quantify fishing impacts across species and genera of the Scombridae family.
EDUCATION
PhD Student in Marine Biology 2006-present
University of La Coruña, Spain
Student in a Marie Curie EST Fellowship in METAOCEANS Project
Advisors: Iago Mosqueira and Juan Freire.
M.S. Marine Resource Management 2003-2006
College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS), Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis, Oregon, USA. Minor in Earth Information Science and Technology; concentrating in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing
Master Thesis: Integration of oceanographic information off the Washington and Oregon coasts into the West Coast groundfish ecology and management. Advisors: Jack Barth, Waldo Wakefield, Elizabeth Clarke, Jim Good and Dawn Wright.
B.S. Ocean Science (Dynamical Route Specialization) 1999-2002
University of Wales, Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom.
Final Degree Project: Simple model calculating the trajectory of fish larvae around Grand Canary Island, Spain. Advisor: Des Barton.
