News

30. Sep 2019
Our work on halibut geolocation, a joint effort of SMAST, the Nature Conservancy, and Maine Department of Marine Resources led by Ph.D. student Chang Liu with support from NOAA was published by ICES Journal of Marine Science this summer and selected as an Editor’s Choice article. Synopsis, images, and open access article are available on the ICES JMS website

17. May 2019
Congrats to CMLAB member Flynn Casey on successful defense of his M.S. thesis- Modeling the impact of climate change on American lobster, Homarus americanus, larval connectivity in southern New England. His work contained both field sampling and individual based modeling components and looks at the larval component of the southern New England lobster fishery.

13. May 2019
Chang is now officially Dr. Liu and is off to a postdoctoral position at University of Connecticut. Congratulations to him and the fellow graduates on all their hard work.

2. May 2019
Great feature story on Chang’s Ph.D. work and the benefits to stock assessment and management.

12. April 2019
Congrats to Chang Liu for successful defense of his Ph.D. Thesis: Geolocation Methods for Demersal Fish Species Using Archival Tagging Data.

10. February 2019
The second chapter of Chang Liu’s Ph.D. thesis was accepted for publication in Fisheries Research. The paper presents a GPU-accelerated method for geolocating demersal fish based on the particle filter.

27. November 2018
Congrats to Mark Carreira on successfully defending his M.S. thesis on “Efficient Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization for Robust Hydrofoil Design”.

29. August 2018
The Cape Cod Chronicle had a nice writeup on our NOAA-funded work with the Nature Conservancy investigating the stock structure and life history of Atlantic halibut.

20. August 2018
Chang Liu and Flynn Casey presented their thesis research at the 2018 American Fisheries Society Annual Science Meeting in Atlantic City, NJ.

5. August 2018
Finished build of hopper, named after Grace Hopper. It has an 8th generation core i5 CPU and an NVIDIA GTX 1060 GPU and will be used to test some GPU-based accelerations of the FVCOM kernel using OpenACC. Exact parts list available here.

3. August 2018
A popup satellite tag from an Atlantic halibut tagged as part of our NOAA-sponsored work with the Nature Conservancy released off of Georges Bank. Data from the tag will be used to geolocate the fish to better understand their movement and habitat utilization.

15. May 2018
Flynn Casey and Jim Churchill (WHOI) presented results from our project Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on Larval Connectivity and Recruitment of the American Lobster off of Southern New England to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Lobster Technical Committee.

15. April 2018
Flynn Casey, Angela Murray, and Marc Carreira presented their research at the UMass Dartmouth Sigma Xi Research Exhibition

15. February 2018
Chang Liu presented his work on geolocation from pop-up satellite tags at the American Fisheries Society Southern New England Chapter Meeting

20. January 2018
student Flynn Casey presented his thesis research on dispersal of larval lobster in southern New England to the Buzzards Bay Garden Club, a philanthropic organization that provides support for his work.

November 2017
Geoff Cowles presented his work on multi-scale modeling of tidal energy in the seminar series of the Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering dept. at Clarkson University

September, 2017
Chang Liu presented his thesis research on a GPU-accelerated particle filter geolocation method for demersal fish using archival tagging data at the ICES annual science meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.