Dr. Bradley Stevens

DISTINGUISHED RESEARCH SCIENTIST (RETIRED)

Retired Professor of Marine Environmental (Fisheries) Science
University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES)

Phone: (410) 651-6066 | Email: bgstevens@umes.edu  | Fax: (410) 651-7739

Academic Website and Research Blog | Curriculum Vitae 

Started AAUS diving program at UMES, 2015, and serves on University System of Maryland Diving Control Board. 

Convened and edited The Alaska Crab Stock Enhancement Workshop, Kodiak, AK, March 2006

American Fisheries Society (member since 1982)
President, American Fisheries Society Tidewater Chapter, 2019-2020
AFS Alaska State Chapter Secretary-Treasurer, 1987-1989
The Crustacean Society (member since 1981)

Associate Editor, Journal of Crustacean Biology (2010-2014)
Chief Scientist for Gulf of Alaska Seamount Exploration (GOASEX) project, July 1999 and 2002
Distinguished Research Scientist, NOAA-LMRCSC, UMES. 2009 – Present

Education

University of Washington School of Fisheries, Seattle (1982)
Ph.D., Fisheries

College of Charleston, SC (1977)
M.S. Marine Biology

University of Cincinnati, OH (1973)
B.S., Biology

Research Interests

  1. Fisheries Ecology.
  2. Stock Assessment and Habitat Research. 
  3. In-situ and deep-sea research.
  4. Fishing Impacts.
  5. Seawater Systems.
  6. Marine Archaeology.

Selected Publications

Books and proceedings Edited

  1. Stevens, B. G. 2018. The Ship, the Saint, and the Sailor: The Long Search for the Legendary Kad’yak. Ingram Press, San Diego, CA.
  2. Stevens, B. G., ed. 2014. King Crabs of the World: Biology and Fisheries Management. CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), Boca Raton, FL. 608 pp.
  3. B. G. Stevens, Editor.  2006. Alaskan Crab Stock Enhancement and Rehabilitation.  Proceedings of a workshop held at Kodiak College, Kodiak, AK, March, 2006. University of Alaska Sea Grant. Rep. No. AK-SG-06-04. 89 pp.

Book Chapters

  1. Stevens, B. G., and T. J. Miller. 2020. Crab Fisheries. G. A. Lovrich, and M. Thiel, editors. The Natural History of the Crustacea, Vol. 9, Chapter 2, pp 21-53. Oxford University Press.
  2. Stevens, B. G. 2014. Biology and ecology of juvenile king crabs. pp 261-284. In B. G. Stevens (ed.) King Crabs of the World: Biology and Fisheries Management. CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), Boca Raton, FL. [Chapter 9]
  3. Stevens, B. G. 2014. Development and biology of king crab larvae. pp 233-260. In B. G. Stevens (ed.) King Crabs of the World: Biology and Fisheries Management. CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), Boca Raton, FL. [Chapter 8]
  4. Stevens, B. G. 2014. Embryo development and hatching of king crabs. pp 211-232. In B. G. Stevens (ed.) King Crabs of the World: Biology and Fisheries Management. CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), Boca Raton, FL. [Chapter 7]
  5. Stevens, B. G. 2014. Future of king crabs. pp 583-594. In B. G. Stevens (ed.) King Crabs of the World: Biology and Fisheries Management. CRC Press (Taylor and Francis), Boca Raton, FL. [Chapter 19]

Peer-reviewed Journal articles

  1. Schweitzer, C. C., A. Z. Horodysky, A. L. Price, and B. G. Stevens. 2020. Impairment indicators for predicting delayed mortality in black sea bass (Centropristis striata) discards within the commercial trap fishery. Conservation PhysiologyVolume 8, Issue 1, 2020, coaa068, https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coaa068. Published 9/08/2020.
  2. Olsen, N. A., and B. G. Stevens. 2020. Size at Maturity, Shell Conditions, and Morphometric Relationships of Male and Female Jonah Crabs Cancer borealis in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. DOI: doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10509 . Published 10/21/2020.
  3. Stevens, Bradley G. 2020. The ups and downs of traps: environmental impacts, entanglement, mitigation, and the future of trap fishing for crustaceans and fish, ICES Journal of Marine Science. fsaa135, https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa135 .
     Published  08/23/2020. 
  4. Cullen, D.W. and Stevens, B.G. 2020. A brief examination of underwater video and hook-and-line gears for sampling black sea bass (Centropristis striata) simultaneously at 2 Mid-Atlantic sites off the Maryland coast. J. Northw. Atl. Fish.   Sci., 51:1–13. doi:10.2960/J.v51.m725.
  5. Martínez Rivera, S., and B. G. Stevens. 2020. Embryonic development and fecundity of red deep-sea crab, Chaceon quinquedens (Smith, 1879), in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, determined by image analysis. Journal of Crustacean Biology 40(3):230-236. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruaa017. Published 04/01/2020.
  6. Martínez-Rivera, S., W. C. Long, and B. G. Stevens. 2020. Physiological and behavioral sexual maturity of female red deep-sea crabs Chaceon quinquedens (Smith, 1879) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Geryonidae) in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Journal of Crustacean Biology 40(3):330-340. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruaa007.
  7. Cruz-Marrero, W., C. A. Harms-Tuohy, R. Appeldoorn, and B. G. Stevens. 2020. Comparison of video camera sled with diver surveys for queen conch Lobatus gigas (Linnaeus, 1758) density estimates in the west coast of Puerto Rico. Bulletin of Marine Science doi.org/10.5343/bms.2019.0087
  8. Stevens, B. G. 2020. Chaceon quinquedens. Last accessed 02/18/2020. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaceon_quinquedens.
  9. Wenker, R. P., and B. G. Stevens. 2020. Sea whip coral Leptogorgia virgulata in the Mid-Atlantic Bight: Colony complexity, age, and growth. PeerJ 8:e8372. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8372
  10. Schweitzer, C. C., and B. G. Stevens. 2019. The relationship between fish abundance and benthic community structure on artificial reefs in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, and the importance of sea whip corals Leptogorgia virgulata. PeerJ 7:e7277. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7277

Biosketch

Dr. Bradley Stevens is a tenured Professor of Environmental Science in the Department of Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and Distinguished Research Scientist with the NOAA Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center. He is also a Graduate Faculty member of the University of Maryland Marine, Estuarine, and Environmental Sciences (MEES) Graduate Program.  He received his PhD from the University of Washington under Dr. David Armstrong, Director of the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences (ret.).  He previously worked for the National Marine Fisheries Service of NOAA for 22 years in Kodiak, Alaska, where he was Task Leader for Bering Sea Crab Stock Assessment, managed the Seawater Laboratory at the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center, and was Acting Director of the NMFS Kodiak Laboratory in 2006.  In 2006 he left Alaska (and NOAA) to join the University of Massachusetts as an Associate Professor, and in 2009 moved to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore as full Professor.  He has authored or co-authored over 65 peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings, and is the Editor and principal author of “King Crabs of the World”, CRC Press, 2014.   Since 2007, he has advised 14 graduate students in Massachusetts and Maryland. 

Dr. Stevens’ research program focuses on ecology and reproductive biology of invertebrates (primarily crabs), and impacts of fishing on fish and invertebrate populations and their habitats. Since 2009, he has brought in >$1,000,000 in grants as P.I., and has co-authored grants totaling >$30,000,000.  His teaching specialties include statistical computing with R, and sampling theory for population assessments.  In 2015, he initiated the AAUS Diving program at UMES, and currently serves on the University System of Maryland Diving Control Board.

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