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Dr. Jim Berkson
NMFS-RTR Program at Virginia Tech
100 Cheatham Hall (0321)
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-5910
nmfs@vt.edu
Faculty - Dr. Yan Jiao

Yan Jiao

Assistant Professor

B.S., M.S., Ocean University of China
Ph.D., Memorial University of Newfoundland , 2004

Academic Interests:
Population dynamics and stock assessment; Risk analysis; Fisheries management (decision analysis, adaptive management); Fishery ecology; Statistical computing

Courses Taught:
Fish Population Dynamics and Modeling (FiW 5514)
Marine Ecology (FiW 4624)
Catch Rate Standardization in Fisheries (FiW 5984)
Special Topics on Fishery Resources and Fishery Management

For more information about current projects, course information and others, please visit my personal website http://filebox.vt.edu/users/yjiao/index.htm

Current Research Projects

  1. 2009-2011: Investigating ecosystem level effects of gillnet and trap net bycatch: implications for management of Lake Erie’s commercial fisheries. (PI)
  2. 2008-2010: Model complexity and stock assessment quality: an investigation of the performance of models of different complexities and implications for model selection in fisheries. MARFIN, NOAA. (PI with Dr. Don Orth and Dr. Eric Smith)
  3. 2008-2010: Improving stock assessment of weakfish (Cynoscion regalis). Virginia Marine Resources Commission. (PI with Dr. Don Orth)
  4. 2008-2009: Population growth rate estimation of endangered freshwater mussel species in the Clinch and Powel Rivers based on Bayesian model averaging approach. USGS.  (PI with Dr. Richard Neves and Jess Jones)
  5. 2008-2010: Bio-economic evaluation of Lake Erie percid fisheries. Ontario Commercial Fisheries Association (PI)
  6. 2009-2010: Modeling seabird bycatch, pink shrimp catch and effort, and pink shrimp recruitment with environmental considerations. NOAA (PI with postdoc Dr. Andreas Winter)
  7. 2008-2009: Stock assessment of San Miguel Island red abalone (Haliotis rufescens). Concur. (PI, student Robert Leaf participated in this project)
  8. 2006–2010: Decision analysis and adaptive management (DAAM) for Lake Erie Percid fisheries.  Ontario Commercial Fisheries Association. (PI)
  9. 2006–2009: Incorporating protogyny into stock assessment models.  NOAA. (CO-PI with Dr. Brian Murphy and Michelle Davis)
  10. 2006-2009: Evolutionary effects of selective fishing and implications for fisheries management and rebuilding. NMFS-Sea Grant Graduate Student Fellowship in Population Dynamics. (PI of record and supervisor to the student awardee, Robert Leaf, with NMFS mentor Dr. Michael Prager)
  11. 2005-2008: Life history and stock assessment of hammerhead complex along Atlantic coast. NMFS-RTR (Dr. Enric Cortes and Dr. Jim Berkson are the NMFS collaborators)
  12. 2006-2007: Movement, habitat use, nesting, and feeding of northern snakehead (Channa argus) in the Potomac River catchment. USGS (CO-PI with Dr. Paul Angermeier, Dr. Brian Murphy and student Nick Lapointe)

Selected 20 Recent Peer Reviewed Publications (total 30, * students and postdocs under my supervision):

Papers on Bayesian risk assessment, hierarchical model, measurement error model, model averaging (including time series models of random walk and autoregression) and their applications in assessing multi-species complexes, and data poor species (including invasive and endangered species)

  1. Jiao, Y., *Hayes, C., and Cortés, E. 2009. Bayesian hierarchical models for fish-complex stock assessment without species-specific data. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 66:367-377
  2. Jiao, Y., Reid, K. and Smith, E. 2008. Model selection uncertainty and Bayesian model averaging in fisheries recruitment modeling. Fish and Fisheries book series: The Future of Fisheries Science in North America. Fish and Fisheries book series, 31: 505-524.  Springer.
  3. Jiao, Y., Neves, R. and Jones, J. 2008. Models and model selection uncertainty in estimating growth rates of endangered freshwater mussel populations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 65:2389-2398
  4. Jiao, Y., Reid, K. and Nudds, T. 2006. Variation in the catchability of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in the fisheries of Lake Erie using a Bayesian error-in-variable approach.  ICES Journal of Marine Science. 63:1695-1704
  5. Chen, Y., Jiao, Y., and Chen, L. 2003. Developing robust frequentist and Bayesian fish stock assessment methods. Fish and Fisheries. 4:105-120.

    6. Papers on likelihood inference and frequentist risk assessment approaches for fisheries management decision making

  6. Jiao, Y., Lapointe N., Angermeier, P.L., and Murphy, B. 2009. Hierarchical demographic approaches for assessing invasion dynamics of non-indigenous species: an example using northern snakehead (Channa argus). Ecological Modelling. (accepted)
  7. Jiao, Y., Reid, K., Nudds, T., and Smith, E. 2009. Graphical evaluation of fishery status with a likelihood inference approach.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management. (accepted)
  8. Jiao, Y., Chen, Y., and Wroblewski, J. 2005. An application of the composite risk assessment method in assessing fisheries status. Fisheries Research. 72:173-183.

    9. Other papers on uncertainty, population dynamics and stock assessment

  9. *Hayes, C., Jiao, Y., and Cortes, C., 2009. Stock assessment of scalloped hammerhead sharks in the western North Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. (accepted)
  10. *Ruan, N., Gao, D., and Jiao, Y. 2009. Canonical dual least square method for solving general nonlinear systems of equations. Computational Optimization with Application. (in press)
  11. Chen, Y., Jiao, Y., Sun, C.L., and Chen, X. 2008. Calibrating virtual population analysis for fisheries stock assessment. Aquatic Living Resources. 21:89-97
  12. *Leaf, R., Rogers-Bennett, L. and Jiao, Y. 2008. Exploring the Use of a Size-Based Egg-per-Recruit Model for the Red Abalone Fishery in California. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 28:1638-1647
  13. Jiao, Y., and Chen, Y. 2004. An application of generalized linear model in production model and sequential population analysis. Fisheries Research. 70:367-376
  14. Jiao, Y., Chen, Y., Schneider, D., and Wroblewski, J. 2004. A simulation study of impacts of error structure on modeling stock-recruitment data using generalized linear models. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. 61:122-133.
  15. Jiao, Y., Schneider, D., Chen, Y., and Wroblewski, J. 2004. An analysis of error structure in modeling the stock-recruitment data of gadoid stocks using generalized linear models. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. 61:134-146

    16. Papers on fisheries biology and management policy

  16. Jiao, Y. 2009. Regime shift in marine ecosystems and implications for fisheries management, a review. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. (in press)
  17. Jiao, Y., Chen, D., Liu, Q., Zhong, C., Zeng, X., and Ren, Y. 2001. Biological Characteristics of some small species in Engraulidae and Clupeidae. Journal of Fisheries of China. 25:323-329
  18. Chen, D., Jiao, Y., Liu, Q., Zeng, X., and Ren, Y. 2000. Fish species diversity in the Yellow River estuary. Acta Oceanologica Sinica. 19:125-135.
  19. Chen, D., and Jiao, Y. 1999. Tightening the management of fisheries in Yellow and Bohai Sea is the requirement of persistent fisheries. Fishery Policy. 2:11-12.
  20. Chen, D., Shen, W., Liu, Q., Jiao, Y., Zeng, X., and Ren, Y. 2000. The geographical characteristics and fish species diversity in the Laizhou Bay and Yellow River estuary. Journal of Fisheries Science in China. 7:46-52.

 

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