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Fisheries Ecology Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
110 Shaffer Road
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831) 420-3900
Fax: (831) 420-3980

Mary Yoklavich

Habitat Ecology Team Leader

Fisheries Ecology Division

Contact Information:

Phone: (831) 420-3940
Fax: (831) 420-3977
E-mail: mary.yoklavich@noaa.gov

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Habitat Ecology Team

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Mary Yoklavich is a supervisory research biologist and leader of the Habitat Ecology Team in the Fisheries Ecology Division of SWFSC. She has conducted research from California to Alaska for thirty years, and is well known for her research on habitat assessments of West Coast rockfishes. She has been named NOAA Fisheries Employee of the Year and has received three NOAA Bronze Medal Awards for her innovative research to characterize deepwater habitats off California; for her efforts as part of the Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations in the Gulf of Alaska; and for protecting US West Coast essential groundfish habitats. She has produced close to eighty scientific publications, and is a co-author of "The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacific". Mary has received the NMFS award for Best Publication, is a Distinguished Fellow in Science and Technology at California State University Monterey Bay, and received the Science/Research Award from the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Mary and her team are part of a growing cooperative of researchers from British Columbia to southern California, who conduct coastwide visual surveys of demersal species and their habitats in deep water. Her current research includes baseline surveys using manned submersibles to monitor fishes, coral communities, and habitats associated with Marine Protected Areas off central and southern California. Mary has served on the Science Advisory Team of California’s Marine Life Protection Act Initiative, and currently serves on the Pacific Fisheries Management Council’s Essential Fish Habitat Review Committee.

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