KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Gulf of maine monitoring & research symposium
APRIL 8 & 9, 2025
Janet Duffy-Anderson, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Janet Duffy-Anderson is the Chief Scientific Officer at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine. She is a fisheries biologist and marine ecologist who works to understand the impacts of anthropogenic activities in large marine ecosystems including New England, the middle Atlantic, the North Pacific, Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and U.S. High Arctic. She has expertise in climate-ecosystem interactions, effects of shore zone modifications on nearshore fisheries, fishing and effects on fisheries, impacts of platforms and over water structures on marine communities, benthic habitat use and modification, fisheries oceanography, fisheries recruitment, and fish early life history. For over two decades, Duffy-Anderson has worked to understand the interacting drivers of ecosystem change, the mechanisms by which human activities influence fisheries and ecosystems, and associated impacts on living marine resources and the social-ecological systems that depend on them.
Damian Brady, Ph.D. University of Maine
Dr. Damian C. Brady is the Agatha B. Darling Professor of Oceanography. His research interests, while broad, focus on how models can inform better decision-making in marine ecosystems to reflect the values of the coastal communities that rely on them. The decision-making contexts have included aquaculture, offshore wind, marine carbon dioxide removal, the American lobster fishery, sea-run fish, and coastal water quality. The Gulf of Maine is an important economic driver for the region with important fisheries and aquaculture operations; however, dynamic new ocean industries are emerging, such as recirculating aquaculture systems, floating offshore wind, and marine carbon dioxide removal. Many of these new and emerging technologies purport to address our pressing climate change induced challenges. To determine whether these emerging technologies can address these challenges, our team develops, calibrates, and validates tools, such as techno-economic analyses, marine ecosystem models, remote sensing, and oceanographic buoys, to collect objective, science-based information and importantly, communicate these results to coastal communities. Dr. Brady co-chairs the Science and Technical Subcommittee for the Governor of Maine’s Climate Action Plan, Maine Won’t Wait, serves on the Governor’s Offshore Wind Research Consortium, and serves on the board of the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center. From 2019-2023, Dr. Brady chaired the Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine. In 2019, Dr. Brady was named the Agatha B. Darling Professor of Oceanography and lives in Damariscotta, Maine with his wife, three daughters, and a rabbit named George.
2025 SYMPOSIUM HOST INSTITUTIONS
