Meet Our Keynote Speakers - 2023 CEM Symposium
Randy Claramunt
Michigan Dept. of Natural Resources
Randy Claramunt is the Fisheries Chief at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, where for the last twenty years, he has worked to protect and manage fisheries in Michigan. He has worked with Great Lakes and inland fisheries management programs, and is interested in the diversity of fishing opportunities in Michigan.
Eli Fenichel
Yale University
Dr. Eli Fenichel will be joining us on June 21st for the CEM Symposium from Yale University, the School of the Environment. His research approaches natural resource management and sustainability as a portfolio management problem by considering natural resources as a form of capital. Dr. Fenichel is interested in how people can and do allocate natural resources and natural resource risks through time. Dr. Fenichel’s research is applied in systems such as natural capital valuation, fisheries, groundwater, tropical forests and grasslands.
Sarah Gaichas
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries
Dr. Sarah Gaichas is a Research Fishery Biologist with the Ecosystem Dynamics and Assessment Branch at the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Centre. Dr. Gaichas focuses her research on integrated ecosystem assessment, management strategy evaluation and ecosystem modeling. She is a member of the Mid Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s Scientific and Statistical Committee, where she has been active in ecosystem reporting and management strategy evaluation.
Anna Gårdmark
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Dr. Anna Gårdmark is a professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, in the department of Aquatic Resources. Dr. Gårdmark studies the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of aquatic food webs. Her focus is how fish communities and food webs respond to changing environments, and how these responses depend on species interactions. Gårdmark studies how species interactions and variation in these among individuals, determine variables such as responses to climate change and fishing. She also studies how to detect this in natural populations and account for it in advice to managing properties
Henry Lickers
International Joint Commission
Henry Lickers is the Canadian Commissioner at the International Joint Commission, as well as an Environmental Science Officer, and the Director of the Mohawk Council. He has been instrumental in incorporating First Nations peoples and knowledge into environmental planning and decision making and conservation. Lickers has been commemorated for his lifelong service to many environmental and government organizations as well as to the St. Lawrence River.
Stuart Ludsin
The Ohio State University
Dr. Stuart Ludsin is a Professor at the Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State University. His research focuses on fish population, community structure, and dynamics, as well as the impact of anthropogenic activity on aquatic food webs in marine and freshwater ecosystems. Dr. Ludsin is also the director of the Fish Management in Ohio Partnership between the Aquatic Ecology Laboratory and the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
Andy Todd
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
Andy Todd is a manager of the Lake Ontario Management Unit at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. He is a member of the Lake Ontario Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, which facilitates assessment and research programs, as well as develops research projects. Todd also is involved with the Landscape Conservation Cooperative Network, involved with the Great Lakes Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative, which works to harness the capacities, expertise, and abilities of all partners in support of common conservation outcomes between the lakes and the tributaries in the Great Lakes Basin.