Kent Smedbol

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Biological Station

531 Brandy Cove Rd

St. Andrews, NB  E5B 2L9

Phone: (506) 529-5976
   Fax: (506) 529-5862
Email: kent.smedbol@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Webpage: http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sabs/Staff-personnel/KSmedbol-eng.html

Education Background

• BSc  - Dalhousie University
• MSc - Memorial University of Newfoundland
• PhD - Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research Interests

• Species at risk
• Metapopulation dynamics
• Population dynamics of species at risk of extinction

Smedbol, R.K., and Stephenson, R.L. - 2004 - Atlantic Herring, Clupea harengus L., in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean: Dynamics of Nested Population Components Under Several Harvest Regimes - In: Species Conservation and Management: case studies using RAMAS® GIS. Edited by: Akçakaya, H. R., Burgman, M., Kindvall, O., Sjogren-Gulve, P., Hatfield, J., McCarthy, M., and Wood, C., Oxford University Press, New York. (Invited).

 

Johnston, T.L., and R.K. Smedbol - 2004 - A numeric scoring matrix for use in the rapid assessment of extinction vulnerability of marine fish species in the NAFO regions 4VWX, 5Zc - Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2525, Ottawa. v + 84 p.

 

Smedbol, R.K., Shelton, P.A., Swain, D.P., Fréchet, A., and Chouinard, G.A. - 2002 - Review of population structure, distribution and abundance of cod (Gadus morhua) in Atlantic Canada in a species-at-risk context - Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document 2002/082.

 

Smedbol, R.K., McPherson, A., Hansen, M.M., and Kenchington, E. - 2002 - Myths and moderation in marine metapopulations - Fish and Fisheries 3:1-15.

 

Smedbol, R.K., and Wroblewski, J.S. - 2002 - Metapopulation theory and northern cod population structure: interdependency of subpopulations in rebuilding of a groundfish population - Fish. Res. 55: 161-174.