The Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center (AREAC) has announced that Suresh A. Sethi will serve as its new director. Sethi is a quantitative ecologist working across ecological, social, and quantitative sciences to advance solutions to aquatic ecosystem sustainability challenges. Sethi’s work spans scales from laboratory experiments to inform the ecology of aquatic species, to commercial fisheries management science, to global biodiversity conservation. Before joining Brooklyn College, he was faculty in the NY Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Cornell University, and he previously served as the Alaska Region statistician for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. AREAC is a hands-on experimentation laboratory and a center of innovation for aquatic ecosystem sustainability science. Themes at AREAC include: Fisheries and aquaculture science; Environmental assessment and management; Biology and ecophysiology of aquatic organisms.
