The Lenfest Ocean Program will host a webinar on Wednesday, July 1, at 2:00 p.m. EDT about a project focused on developing models to forecast how the distributions of four economically important species along the U.S. East Coast will change over the next one to ten years. The research team includes Dr. Malin Pinsky and Dr. Alexa Fredston, both from Rutgers University, and Brandon Muffley, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council staff.

Register for the webinar here. 

Background: As water temperatures increase along the U.S. East Coast, fish and invertebrate species are shifting their ranges, presenting challenges for managers tasked with setting catch limits and, in some fisheries, spatially allocating harvest. This research will test a new method for predicting warming-induced movements of diverse species over short timescales (the next one to ten years) that better align with management timescales. To learn more read the project fact sheet.