Spencer Gardner

Spencer Gardner is working with Casey Godwin and the NOAA GLERL Ecosystem Dynamics team to implement the European Regional Seas Ecosystem Model (ERSEM) in Lake Erie. This model will improve our understanding of the influence of nutrient loading and meteorology on harmful algal blooms and hypoxia. As a modeling analyst, Spencer will support broader ecological and physical modeling efforts at CIGLR and NOAA GLERL.
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Education:

• • PhD in Fisheries and Aquatic Science, Purdue University, December 2024
  • M.S. in Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, May 2020
  • B.S. in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, North Carolina State University, May 2016

Research Interest/Area of Expertise:

• • Fish population dynamics
  • Recruitment mechanisms
  • Bioenergetics
  • Ecosystem Modeling
  • Programming Languages

Publications:

• • Gardner, S.T., M.D. Rowe, P. Xue, X. Zhou, P.J. Alsip, D.B. Bunnell, P.D. Collingsworth, E.S. Rutherford, and T.O. Höök. 2024. Climate-influenced phenology of larval fish transport in a large lake. Limnology & Oceanography Letters. 9:376-387. (DOI:10.1002/lol2.10414).
  • Gardner, S.T., and T.O. Höök. 2024. Efficacy of a novel reproductive tag to index spawn timing. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. (DOI:10.1139/cjfas-2023-0332).
  • Gardner, S.T., A.N., Valenza, and F.S. Scharf. 2023. Ecological mechanisms generating variable first-year growth in a coastal flatfish (Paralichthys lethostigma). Marine Ecology Progress Series. 707:77-97. (DOI:10.3354/meps14255).