主讲教师：Dr.Michael Jones 教授

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【课程简介】

This brief course will introduce students to the importance of formally considering uncertainty when making fishery management decisions. Students will learn about the many forms of uncertainty that affect decision-making. They will be introduced to Decision Analysis – a formal tool for accounting for uncertainty and risk in the decision-making process. They will also learn about Adaptive Management, which is a management strategy that seeks to use management as an opportunity to learn – that is, to reduce uncertainty.  The seminar will include lectures and discussion, and the students will be required to write and submit a short reflection on what they learned each day. 

Students should have completed undergraduate courses in ecology and fishery management to prepare for this class. Some familiarity with population dynamics and modeling is desirable but not essential. There will be a reading to be completed before each day of the seminar.

【上课要求】

自带笔记本电脑。

【专家简况】

Dr. Michael Jones is a fisheries biologist with B.Sc. (1977) and Ph.D. (1986) degrees in Zoology from the University of British Columbia. He worked as an environmental consultant and a government research scientist prior to joining the faculty at MSU. From 1980 to 1988 he worked as a systems ecologist with ESSA Technologies Ltd. ESSA is an innovative, quantitatively-oriented consulting firm that was originally created to provide expertise in modeling and adaptive management to government and corporate clients with environmental concerns. In 1988 he became a research scientist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, where he led the Great Lakes Salmonid Unit, which he conducted research on various aspects of salmonine ecology in the Great Lakes including: examining the feasibility of Atlantic salmon restoration in Lake Ontario; developing methods and models to understand riverine salmonine habitat-population interactions; building models to investigate the sustainability of Great Lakes salmonine stocking practices; and exploring the relationship between watershed land-use patterns and the quality of riverine habitats. In 1997 he joined an active and growing Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University. My recent research has focused on Great Lakes fishery management and particularly sea lamprey control and applications of decision analysis to problems such as salmon stocking and percid harvest strategies. In February 2008 he was appointed Acting Chairperson of our Department, and in July 2009 he became the Chairperson for a five-year term. Now Dr. Jones is Peter A. Larkin Professor of Quantitative Fisheries at Michigan State University, and co-Director of the Quantitative Fisheries Center at MSU. He has published extensively on uncertainty and risk in fishery management, and teaches a full semester graduate course on the topic of this seminar at MSU.