Vacancy ID: PDS004328 Position Summary/Description: The Nye lab is looking for a postdoctoral associate to conduct forecasts of river herring bycatch in the midwater trawl fishery of the Northeast US. The postdoc will refine existing models to operationalize bycatch forecasts for the Mid-Atlantic midwater trawl fisheries. In Year 1, the postdoc will 1) conduct interviews and hold workshops with fishermen to determine what forecasts would be the most useful in their decision making, 2) examine patterns of bycatch in fisheries observer data, and 3) explore the use of joint species spatial distribution models to predict the areas where river herring are more likely to be caught with mackerel and herring. In Year 2, efforts will be focused on producing maps of areas of high bycatch risk when the midwater trawl fishery is operating, determine if the maps change fishing behavior and reduce bycatch of river herring in the midwater trawl fishery, and publish results. Education and Experience: Experience with species distribution models, spatio-temporal models and/or joint species distribution model, and experience with gridded data sets