Lisa Kerr

Lisa Kerr
Occupation	Fisheries scientist

Lisa Kerr is a fisheries scientist affiliated with the University of Maine System. Her research addresses the population dynamics and stock structure of marine fish, including work on the collapse of the Gulf of Maine cod fishery.

Career

Kerr's professional affiliation is recorded with the University of Maine System.

Research

According to Semantic Scholar, Kerr has published 67 papers that have collectively been cited 3,357 times, giving her an h-index of 30. Her most cited work, published in Science in 2015, examined how slow adaptation in the face of rapid ocean warming contributed to the collapse of the Gulf of Maine cod fishery. Other frequently cited studies address mismatches between the biological population structure of marine fish and the stock units used to manage them, the spatial dynamics of estuarine fish populations, and the use of chemical composition of fish hard parts as a natural marker of fish stocks.

In 2019, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute received a National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator Phase I (RAISE) award of $987,955 for a project titled "Convergence Research to Meet Ocean Decision Challenges."

Selected publications

• "Slow adaptation in the face of rapid warming leads to collapse of the Gulf of Maine cod fishery" (2015), Science
• "Lessons learned from practical approaches to reconcile mismatches between biological population structure and stock units of marine fish" (2017)
• "The role of spatial dynamics in the stability, resilience, and productivity of an estuarine fish population" (2010), Ecological Applications
• "Partial Migration of Fishes as Exemplified by the Estuarine-Dependent White Perch" (2009)
• "Chemical Composition of Fish Hard Parts as a Natural Marker of Fish Stocks" (2014)
• "Investigations of Δ14C, δ13C, and δ15N in vertebrae of white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) from the eastern North Pacific Ocean" (2006), Environmental Biology of Fishes
• "Population structure of beaked redfish, Sebastes mentella: evidence of divergence associated with different habitats" (2010)
• "Connectivity effects on productivity, stability, and persistence in a herring metapopulation model" (2009)
• "Simulation modelling as a tool for examining the consequences of spatial structure and connectivity on local and regional population dynamics" (2010)
• "Application of bomb radiocarbon chronologies to shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) age validation" (2006), Environmental Biology of Fishes

External links

• ORCID profile