Patrick Lehodey
Patrick Lehodey leads the Marine Ecosystem Department at CLS, Toulouse, France. His areas of interests are broad, being highlighted by the modeling of ocean ecosystems for the management of marine resources under the combined impacts of fisheries, environmental variability and climate change. He is the main contributor to the development of a spatial environmental population dynamics model (SEAPODYM), which is driven by physical-biogeochemical ocean dynamics and integrated models of micronekton and large oceanic predators (e.g. tuna), with a quantitative approach to estimate key parameters of spatio-temporal population dynamics. SEAPODYM is used for investigating fishery management under climate change and was also recently implemented as an operational high resolution real time modeling system. Patrick Lehodey holds a PhD in Marine Biology and HDR, the highest French academic diploma for supervision of academic research. After his PhD, he joined the Oceanic Fisheries Program (OFP) of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (Nouméa, New Caledonia) and became the Principal Fisheries Scientist of the OFP tuna ecology/biology section in 2002. He has been a long standing member of the Scientific Steering Committee of GLOBEC and was a co-chair of the GLOBEC/CLIOTOP (Climate Impacts on Oceanic Top Predators) program.
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