The Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project (Fish-MIP)

We answer questions about the future of:

  • Fish & Fisheries

  • Seafood supply

  • Marine biodiversity

  • Marine ecosystem functioning

Our goal

is to bring together disparate marine ecosystem models to help better understand and project the long-term impacts of climate change on fisheries and marine ecosystems, and to use our findings to help inform policy.


The Fish-MIP Coordination Team:

Fish-MIP overall lead: Julia Blanchard (julia.blanchard@utas.edu.au)

Science communication and outreach coordinator: Andrea Bryndum-Buchholz (andrea.buchholz@mi.mun.ca)

Coordinators for regional models: Tyler Eddy (t.eddy@oceans.ubc.ca) and Kelly Ortega Cisneros (kelly.ortegacisneros@uct.ac.za)

Coordinators for global models: Colleen Petrik (colleenpetrik@gmail.com) and Camilla Novaglio (camilla.novaglio@utas.edu.au)

Earth-system model coordinators: Cheryl Harrison (chsharrison@gmail.com) and Ryan Heneghan (ryan.heneghan@gmail.com)

Scenarios working group coordinators: Olivier Maury (olivier.maury@ird.fr); Tyler Eddy (t.eddy@oceans.ubc.ca); Derek Tittensor (derek.tittensor@dal.ca)

For general inquiries please contact us on fishmip.coordinators@gmail.com

Previous Fish-MIP leadership:
  • Derek Tittensor (lead coordinator, 2017-2020)

  • Eric Galbraith (global model coordinator, 2014-2020)

  • Heike Lotze (lead coordinator, 2014-2016)

  • William Cheung (global model coordinator, 2014-2016)

Part of a wider climate impact model community

FishMIP contributes to the Intersectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP).