Abridged Curriculum Vitae

January 2003

 

Lewis S. Incze

 

Address:  Bioscience Research Institute, University of Southern Maine, 96 Falmouth Street, Portland, ME  04104-9300; e-mail: lincze@usm.maine.edu

 

Positions Held (last 10 years): 

 

Senior Research Scientist, Bioscience Research Institute, University of Southern Maine

 

Research Scientist (1988-1995) and Senior Research Scientist (1995-2002), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, ME  04575

 

Director and Chief Executive Officer, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, 1991-1995.

 

 

Formal Education:  B.S. Cornell University, 1976 (Biology); M.S. Univ. of Maine 1979 (Oceanography); Ph.D. Univ. Washington 1983 (Fisheries)

 

Research Interests:  Physical-biological interactions in the oceans; plankton ecology and physiology; population dynamics and recruitment

 

Memberships:  Amer. Assoc. Adv. Science, Amer. Geophysical Union, Amer. Soc. Limnology and Oceanography, Oceanography Society

 

 

Selected Recent Publications:

 

Incze, L.S., N. Wolff and R. Wahle.  In press.  Can scientific observations of early life

stages be scaled up to the level of a fished poipulation?  A case study using Homarus americanus.  Fish. Res.

 

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. Naimmie.  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.

 

Incze, L.S., P. Aas, T. Ainaire and M. Bowen.  2000.  Neustonic postlarval lobsters,

Homarus americanus, in the western Gulf of Maine:  Spatial and interannual variations.  Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 57: 1-11.

 

Incze, L.S. and K.M. Bailey.  1998.  Oceanography and localized fishery stocks:

Possible mechanisms.  Pp. 31-37 In: The Implications of Localized Fishery Stocks (H. von Herbing, I. Kornfield, M. Tupper and J. Wilson, eds.).  Natural Resources, Agriculture and Engineering Service, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 200 p.

 

Incze, L.S., D.W. Siefert and J.M. Napp.  1997.  Mesozooplankton of the Alaska Coastal

Current:  Abundance and community composition.  Cont. Shelf Res. 17: 287-305.

 

Incze, L.S., R.A. Wahle and S.J. Cobb.  1997.  Quantitative relationships between

postlarval production and benthic recruitment in lobsters, Homarus americanus.  J. Freshwater Mar. Sci. 48: 729-743.

 

Wahle, R.A. and L.S. Incze.  1997.  Pre- and post-settlement processes in recruitment of

the American lobster, Homarus americanus.  J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 217: 179-207.

 

Incze, L.S., P. Aas and T. Ainaire.  1996.  Distributions of copepod nauplii and

turbulence on the southern flank of Georges Bank:  Implications for feeding by larval cod (Gadus morhua).  Deep-Sea Res. II, 43: 1855-1873.

 

Napp, J.M., L.S. Incze, P.B. Ortner, D.L. Siefert and L. Britt.  1996.  The plankton of

Shelikof Strait, Alaska:  Standing stock, production, mesoscale variability and their relevance to larval fish survival.  Fish. Oceanogr. 5: 19-38.



Collaborators, past 48 months: 

D. Brooks, Texas A&M; J.L. Buckley and E. Calderone, NOAA/Narragansett, RI; G. Lough,  J. Manning, D. Mountain and M. Fogarty, NOAA/Woods Hole; N. Oakey, D. Greenberg and C. Hannah, Bedford Inst. Oceanography; C. Chen, Univ. Mass. Dartmouth; P. Lawton and F. Page, DFO, St. Andrews; C. Naimie, Dartmouth College; F. Werner, UNC Chapel Hill; J. Irish, WHOI; Y. Chen, N. Pettigrew, R. Steneck, A. Thomas, D. Townsend and H. Xue, Univ. Maine; C. Roesler and R. Wahle, Bigelow Laboratory; R. Houghton, Columbia University