1)        Start-up fund from the University of Maine  (2000 - 2002)

2)        NOAA/Sea Grant program: Simulation study of the lobster egg-per-recruit model  (Nov. 2000 – Jan. 2002)

3)        National Science Foundation China: A risk analysis of aquaculture program on lake ecosystem in China, (2001-2003). The grant is managed by East China Normal Univ. in Shanghai, China

4)        Northeast Consortium/NOAA: Developing stock assessment methods for the New England deep-sea red crab fishery (part I) (2001-2003).

5)        NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Program, Developing stock assessment methods for the New England deep-sea red crab fishery (part II) (2002).

6)        Maine Marine Science Program (DMR): Study lobster and sea urchin population dynamics in Maine (2001-2002)

7)        Maine Department of Marine Resources: Lobster stock assessment and biological reference point (2001-2002)

8)        Maine Sea Urchin Zone Council: Developing a fishery-independent survey program for the Maine sea urchin population (2001-2002)

9)        Thistle Marine LLC. Spatial dynamics of the lobster fishery (2002)

10)    Northeast Consortium/NOAA: Developing a computer simulation framework for identifying an optimal fishery-independent survey program for the MS sea urchin population. (2001-2002)

11)    NOAA/Sea Grant: Developing a Bayesian framework for the American lobster stock assessment (Feb. 2002-Jan. 2004)

12)    Maine Department of Environmental Protection/Sea Grant: Spatial dynamics of the lobster stock and fishing effort.  (Feb. 2002-Jan. 2004)

13)    Maine Sea Urchin Zone Council: Developing, evaluating, and refining stock assessment framework for the Maine sea urchin fishery  (2002-2003)

14)    Maine Sea Grant and MIT Sea Grant: a preliminary study of spatial dynamics of groundfish fisheries in the Gulf of Maine. (2002)

15)    NOAA Synthesis Program: Impacts of transport process on lobster fishery patterns.  (2002-2004) Incze and other 10 PIs

16)    Northeast Consortium/NOAA: Abundance, migration and recruitment of Northern shrimp in the Gulf of Maine: an industry-initiated verification survey and environmental monitoring pilot project. (2002-2003) Schick and other 11 PIs

17)    Northeast Consortium/NOAA: A preliminary study of Maine sea cucumber fishery

18)    National Marine Fisheries Services: Codend mesh selectivity in the Gulf of Maine: Multispecies trawl fishery.

19)    Maine Department of Marine Resources: Studying the Jonah crab fishery in Maine. (2001-2004)

20)    Maine Lobster Advisory Committee and Department of Marine Resources: An assessment of American Lobster stock in the Gulf of Maine. (2003-2004)

21)    Maine Department of Marine Resources: Cooperative fisheries research. (2003-2004)

22)    Northeast Consortium/NOAA: An evaluation of the Maine sea cucumber resources and impacts of exploitation.  2003-2007

23)    Maine Department of Marine Resources: cooperative fisheries research.(2004-2005)

24)    Atlantic State Marine Fisheries Commission: Lobster stock assessment.(2004-2006)

25)    Maine Department of Marine Resources: Study of marine baitworm in Maine. (2004-2005)

26)    Maine Lobster Advisory Committee: Testing biological reference point for the American lobster.(2004-2005)

27)    Maine Sea Grant /Northeast Consortium: Fisheries Research in Maine.(2004 – 2005)

28)    Sea Grant/NOAA: An agent-based model of the Maine lobster fishery. (2004-2007)

29)    NOAA and National Sea Grant: Fisheries Population Dynamics PhD Fellowship program  (2005 – 2008)

30)    NOAA/Maine Sea Grant: Developing and evaluating biological reference points for the American lobster (Homarus americanus) fishery management. (2006 – 2008).

31)    NOAA/Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association: Using Hook and Line to Minimize Cod Bycatch in a Directed Haddock Fishery on Georges Bank and in the Gulf of Maine. (2006)

32)    Maine Department of Marine Resources: Monhegan project: closed area investigation of effort in the Maine lobster fishery.Chen

33)    Maine Sea Grant:  A preliminary study to develop and evaluate spatially-explicit stock assessment model for cod fisheries. (2006-2007)

34)    Maine Sea Grant: Analyzing Maine inshore groundfish trawl survey data. $31,290 (2006-2007) Chen Maine Department of Marine Resources Cooperative Agreement for Assessing the Maine Marine Resources (2006-2007)

35)    Department of Marine Resources: Lobster Research, Education and Development: Developing, evaluating, and outreaching the Bayesian length-structure lobster stock assessment model (2007-2008)

36)    Department of Marine Resources: Lobster Research, Education and Development: Analyzing growth data of American lobster (2007-2008)

37)    National Science Foundation (NSF): Collaborative Research: Direct and indirect coupling of fisheries through economic, regulatory, environmental and ecological linkages(2007-2012).

38)    Maine Department of Marine Resources: Cooperative fisheries research. (2007-2008)

39)    NOAA/ Sea Grant: Modeling ecosystem dynamics for American lobster (Homarus americanus) in the Gulf of Maine. (2008 - 2010)

40)    NASA: Lobster settlement forecasting in the Gulf of Maine.  (2008 – 2010)

41)    NSF DHB:  Competition and the emergence of self-organizing social structure: a computational approach applied to five fisheries.(2008 – 2011).

42)    Maine Department of Marine Resources Cooperative Agreement for Assessing the Maine Marine Resources, Chen (2008-2009)

43)    Maine Department of Marine Resources: Studying the northern shrimp trap fisheries in Maine. Chen, (2009-2011)

44)    Maine Department of Marine Resources: Developing a sea scallop sampling program for their distribution and abundance in federal waters of the Gulf of Maine  Chen, (2009-2010)

45)    NSF/Gulf of Maine Research Institute: A study of the growth of juvenile American lobsters. Chen, (2009-2011)

46)    NFS: Fine-scale Dynamics of Human Adaptation in Coupled Natural and Social Systems: An Integrated Computational Approach Applied to Three Fisheries. Wilson, Acheson, Chen, and Johnson (2009-2012)

47)    NOAA/Maine Sea Grant: A comparative study of monitoring programs for coherence in quantifying the dynamics of American lobster fisheries in the state of Maine. Chen and Wilson (2010-2012)

48)    NOAA/Maine DMR: Retrospective problems in Atlantic herring stock assessment. Chen (2010-2012)

49)    NOAA/CINAR: Incorporating Sediment and Hydrography Data in Assessments for Tilefish and Lobster. (Chen) 2010-2012

50)    Penobscot East Resource Center. Developing a longline sentinel survey fishery.  (Chen) 2011-2013.

51)    National Sea Gran/NOAA: Spatial dynamics in fisheries stock assessment. (Chen and Hart) 2010-2013

52)    Maine DMR: Update and maintenance of American lobster stock assessment model, (Chen) 2011

53)    Maine Department of Marine Resources: Evaluating growth of scallop in Cobscook Bay (Chen) (2012)

54)    Maine DMR: Extended study of trap bycatch in the shrimp fishery. (Chen) 2011

55)    NOAA/Maine DMR: Retrospective problems in Atlantic herring stock assessment. (Chen) (Chen) 2010-2013

56)    Maine Department of Marine Resources and Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. Developing Bayesian stock assessment model for northern shrimp (Chen) (2012-2014)

57)    Maine Department of Marine Resources: Scallop survey in federal waters of Gulf of Maine (Chen) (2012-2014)

58)    Maine Department of Marine Resources and NOAA Cooperative Research Program: Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Cusk Bycatch in the Gulf Of Maine Lobster Fishery(Chen) (2012 – 2013)

59)    NOAA Cooperative Research Program: develop a sentinel survey longline fishery in northern Gulf of Maine (Chen and Dority). (2012-2013)

60)    California Department of Fish and Games: Develop management strategy evaluation for California spiny lobster. (Chen) (2012-2013)

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