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Division:
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FRAM
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Status:
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Federal, NOAA Fisheries
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Job Title:
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Research Fishery Biologist
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541-867-0528
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Email:
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Background
Dr. Vlada Gertseva joined NOAA Fisheries in 2008 as a research fishery biologist. Prior to joining NOAA, Vlada worked at the Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies (CIMRS) as a professor at Oregon State University, teaching quantitative fisheries classes and as a stock assessor for FRAMD. Vlada was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. She received a joint B.S. and M.S. degree in Biology and Science Education at Yaroslavl State University in Russia; a M.S. in Environmental Science and Policy at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary; and a Ph.D. at Clemson University in Forest Resources with a focus on modeling the dynamics of stream biota. She did her postdoc on salmon ecology at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon.
Current Research
Vlada is a part of FRAM's stock assessment team. She developed a number of fisheries stock assessments for West Coast groundfish species that were adopted as basis for management advice. Vlada's research interests focus on topics in population dynamics with the ultimate goal of improving current assessment techniques. Specifically, she is interested in understanding the spatial and temporal variability in life history characteristics of fish, and ways to quantify and incorporate this variability into stock assessment models. She is also interested in spatial dynamics of fish, and understanding how changing environment structures fish behavior and distribution. Vlada is currently involved in several research projects - one is funded by the NOAA's Fishery And The Environment (FATE) program to integrate climate variability into splitnose rockfish stock assessment; another is in cooperation with the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) to explore variability of growth and maturity of skates over several large marine ecosystems. She also collaborates with faculty from the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife at Oregon State University (OSU) on modeling the dynamics of mud shrimp populations that severely declined in recent years. Vlada regularly reviews manuscripts for a number of international research journals, and research proposals for funding agencies. She is also an affiliate faculty member at the OSU Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, and she serves on graduate students' committees.
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