Claire Enterline
Claire Enterline is pursuing a PhD studying the impacts of climate change on marine species. Her research will build a scientific understanding of past changes in lobster populations and the influence of oceanographic and ecosystem drivers, with a focus on rapid, high magnitude, and potentially irreversible regime shifts and tipping points. Identifying drivers and indicators of regime shifts and tipping points in lobster populations provides a necessary foundation for climate adaptation and resilience planning in lobster fisheries. Additional research will examine differences and similarities among climate resilience strategies in various global fisheries
systems. Claire brings a background in coastal and marine fisheries and habitat monitoring, modeling, and restoration. Her past research and projects have focused on characterizing the marine benthic environment of the Gulf of Maine, assessing blue carbon stocks, developing habitat restoration practices to fully support ecosystem health and aquatic organism passage at tidal road crossings, and river herring and rainbow smelt assessment and fishery management.
