Faculty & Staff

Dr. Lewis S. Incze  (Lew)

Biographical Sketch:

Biographical Sketch:

Lew Incze is Director of USM’s Aquatic Systems Group and a Research Professor in the Department of Environmental Science.  He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biology and is on the Faculty of the Graduate School.  He is primarily engaged in research in oceanography, plankton ecology, fisheries and climate change effects.  He currently teaches ESP 380 “Earth Systems and Climate Change” and ESP 399 “Biodiversity and Conservation” during alternating spring semesters.

Lew earned a Ph.D. in Fisheries from the University of Washington in 1983, completed post-doctoral studies and held research positions at the Northwest and Alaska Fisheries Science Center and the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle (1983-1987), and moved to the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in 1987.  There he was a Research Scientist (1987-1993), Senior Research Scientist (1993-2001) and Director (1991-1995) before coming to the University of Southern Maine.  He joined the Bioscience Research Institute as a Senior Scientist in December 2001, became Director of the Aquatic Systems Group in 2005, and joined the faculty of DES as a Research Professor in 2006.

He is located at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute building at 350 Commercial St. in Portland, where USM has office and laboratory space.

Formal Education: 

      Ph.D. Univ. Washington, 1983 (Fisheries)

      M.S. University of Maine, 1979 (Oceanography)

      B.S. Cornell University, 1976 (Biology—Ecology and Systematics)

Research Interests:  Coupled physical-biological processes in the oceans; plankton ecology and physiology; population dynamics and recruitment; climate change; marine conservation and management.

Selected Publications, since 2000:

Stevick, P.T., L.S. Incze, S.D. Kraus, S. Rosen, N. Wolff and A. Baukus.  In press. Trophic relationships and oceanography on and around a small offshore bank.  Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser.

Fogarty, M.J., L.S. Incze, K. Hayhoe, D. Mountain and J. Manning.  In press.  Potential climate change impacts on Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) off the northeastern USA.  Mitig. Adapt. Strat. Global Change.

Palumbi, S.R. et al. (11 co-authors).  In press.  Managing for ocean biodiversity:  Creating a national biodiversity conservation agenda to sustain marine ecosystem services.  Frontiers Ecol.

Xue, H., L.S. Incze, D. Xu, N. Wolff and N. Pettigrew.  2008.  Connectivity of lobster populations in the coastal Gulf of Maine.  Part I: Circulation and larval transport potential.  Ecol. Model. 210: 193-211.

Incze, L.S., R.A. Wahle, N. Wolff, C. Wilson, R. Steneck, E. Annis, P. Lawton, H. Xue and Y. Chen.  In press.  Early life history and a modeling framework for lobster populations in the Gulf of Maine.  J. Crustacean Biology.

Annis, E.R., L.S. Incze, N. Wolff and R.S. Steneck.  In press.  Estimates of in situ larval development times for the lobster, Homarus americanus.  J. Crust. Biol.

Lough, R.G., E.A. Broughton, L.J. Buckley, L.S. Incze,  K. Pehrson Edwards, R. Converse, A. Aretxabaleta and F.E. Werner.  2006.  Modeling growth of Atlantic cod larvae on the southern flank of Georges Bank in the tidal-front circulation during May 1999.  Deep-Sea Res. II.  53: 2771-2788.

Wahle, R.A., L.S. Incze and M.J. Fogarty.  2004.  First projections of American lobster recruitment using a settlement index.  Bull. Mar. Sci. 74: 101-114.

National Research Council (13 co-authors).  2004.  Atlantic Salmon in Maine.  National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.,

275 p. 

Incze, L.S., N. Wolff and R. Wahle.  2003.  Can scientific observations of early life stages be scaled up to the level of a fished population?  A case study using Homarus americanus.  Fish. Res. 65:  33-46. 

Incze, L.S., D. Hebert, N. Wolff, N. Oakey and D. Dye.  2001.  Changes in copepod distributions associated with increased turbulence from wind stress.  Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 213: 229-240.

Incze, L.S. and C.E. Naimie.  2000.  Modeling the transport of lobster (Homarus americanus) larvae and postlarvae in the Gulf of Maine.  Fish. Oceanogr. 9: 99-113.

Incze, L.S., R.A. Wahle and A.T. Palma.  2000.  Advection and settlement rates in a benthic invertebrate:  Recruitment to first benthic stage in Homarus americanus.  ICES J. Mar. Sci. 57: 430-437.

 Graduate Students:

Eric Annis, Ph.D. Oceanography, University of Maine 2002 (Committee)

Kay Roberts, MS Biology, USM 2006 (Committee)

Adam Baukus, MS Biology, USM (Major Professor, anticipated spring 2008)

Richard Franks, MS Computer Science, USM (Committee, anticipated spring 2008)

e-mail:  lincze@usm.maine.edu

>> Link to Dr. Incze's GMRI web site