About SMS    Academic Calendar
	Home Degrees Option Areas and Courses:   Show All    Admissions Faculty Facilities and Resources News UMASSMARINE Newsletter Links Contact Us Directions		Faculty Professor ROTHSCHILD, BRIAN J. (Dartmouth) Dean, The Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute     Phone: (508) 999-8193     Email: brothschild@umassd.edu **Disclaimer: Condensed CVs for the School of Marine Sciences. For a full CV, please contact the professor.** Education: 1962 - Ph.D., Cornell University; Post - Doctoral, Visiting Fellow in Biometrics and Statistics 1959 - M.S., University of Maine 1957 - B.S., Rutgers University Professional History: 2005 - present - Dean, The Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute 1995 - present - Director, SMAST; Professor of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 1980 - 1995 - Professor, University of Maryland, Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory 1998 - Present - Member, Scientific and Statistical Committee, New England Fishery Management Council 1997 - Present - Co - Chairman, Massachusetts Fisheries Recovery Commission 1996 - Present - Editorial Board, The Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas 1995 - 1999 - Member, Scientific Steering Committee, Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC); IGBP/SCOR/IOC/ICES/PICES 1996 - 1998 - Co - opted Member, Executive Committee, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR); ICSU 1991 - 1996 - Secretary, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR); ICSU 1991 - 1996 - Member, Ocean Studies Board (OSB); NAS/NRC 1994 - 1995 - Member, Mid - Atlantic Fisheries Management Council 1991 - 1995 - Chairman, Scientific Steering Committee, Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC); IGBP/SCOR/IOC/ICES/PICES 1992 - 1994 - Chairman, Fisheries Committee, Ocean Studies Board (OSB) Current Research Support: $3.6 million – multiyear, Massachusetts Office of Business Development, NASA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Selected Publications: Rothschild, B.J. (2000), “Fish stocks and recruitment”: the past thirty years, ICES Journal of Marine Science 57:191 - 201. Rothschild, B.J. and J.S. Ault (1996), Population - Dynamic Instability as a Cause of Patch Structure, Ecological Modelling 93, 237 - 249. Rothschild, B.J. (1992), Application of Stochastic Geometry to Problems in Plankton Ecology, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 336, 225 - 237. Rothschild, B.J. (1991), Food - Signal Theory: Population Regulation and the Functional Response, J. Plank. Res. 13(5), 1123 - 1135. Rothschild, B.J. (1986), Dynamics of Marine Fish Populations, Harvard University Press, 271 pp.
			This is an official page / publication of the University of Massachusetts. © 2010 University of Massachusetts.