Dr. Brian J. Rothschild, MFI Co-Director

Dr. Brian Rothschild is Co-Director of the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute. In addition, Dr. Rothschild holds several positions including: Montgomery Charter Professor of Marine Science at the School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts; Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Fisheries Recovery Commission; and member of the editorial board of "The Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas." He has served on several national and international committees including: Secretary of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR); Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC); member of the Ocean Studies Board of the National Research Council; and member of the Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Management Council. He has had faculty and other associations with the University of Washington; University of Hawaii; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami; Institut fur Meereskunde an Der Universitate Kiel; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and Harvard University. He has also written or edited five books and approximately one hundred research papers.

Office: 508-910-6382
Fax: 508-999-8197
Email: brothschild@umassd.edu

Mr. Paul Diodati, MFI Co-Director

Mr. Diodati is Co-Director of the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute. Mr. Diodati also currently serves as Director of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF). Before being named Director of the DMF, Mr. Diodati was a senior fisheries biologist for the DMF and served as the Sport Fish Program Director. And for the six months prior to assuming the role of director, he was Acting Assistant Director of Research for the DMF. Since that time, Mr. Diodati led efforts to maintain and enhance the Commonwealth's anadromous fishery resources and oversaw surveys and research projects needed for fisheries management. He also led the evaluation of potential impacts on marine resources, habitat, and fisheries from industrial and residential development, oil or toxic waste spills, and other factors. He participated on technical and management bodies to develop research and management plans in conjunction with other state and federal fishery agencies and devised and managed agency budgets. He is well known for his work with the Gulf of Maine northern shrimp and Atlantic striped bass stocks.

Office: 617-626-1530
Fax: 617-626-1509
Email: paul.diodati@state.ma.us

Dr. Kevin Stokesbury - Research Director

Dr. Kevin Stokesbury is the Research Director for the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute. Dr. Stokesbury currently serves as Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Fisheries Oceanography at the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. In addition, Dr. Stokesbury is involved with the SMAST Fisheries program conducting research on sea scallops, lobsters, and groundfish. Since 1999, Dr. Stokesbury, his laboratory, members of the commercial sea scallop industry, and the Massachusetts Department of Marine Fisheries have completed 98 video cruises surveying Georges Bank and the Mid-Atlantic. This unique data set covers the entire scallop resource and provides data for scallop assessments, sediment and habitat distributions, and other macroinvertebrate densities.

Office: 508-910-6373
Fax: 508-910-6396
Email: kstokesbury@umassd.edu

Dr. David Pierce - Policy Director

Dr. David Pierce is the Policy Director for the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Institute. Dr. Pierce currently serves as Deputy Director for the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries.

Office: 617-626-1532
Fax: 617-626-1509
Email: david.pierce@state.ma.us