Texas A&M University
O&M Building
MS 3146
College Station, Texas 77843
Ph.D. Biological Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (2011)
B.S. Marine Science and Biology, University of Miami (2005)
Biological Oceanography Committee Best Presentation 2016
PICES Annual Science Conference, San Diego, California
NPRB project number 1508, Sep 2015--Jan 2018,
``Growth and dispersal of early life history stages of Arctic cod and saffron cod under variable climate forcing"
Role and Affiliation: Co-Investigator, Princeton University
United States Department of Commerce Gold Medal Award Sep 2015
For Distinguished Achievement in the Federal Service To the members of the Bering Sea Integrated Ecosystem Research Program
Physical Oceanography Committee Best Presentation 2013
PICES Annual Science Conference, Nanaimo, Canada
OCNG 251
Colleen M. Petrik
Assistant Research Professor
Biological Oceanography: biophysical modeling, fisheries, climate variability
Research Interests
Biological oceanography of zooplankton and fishes. Coupled biological-physical modeling of behavior and population dynamics as influenced by environmental forcing.
Selected Publications
- Duffy-Anderson, J., Barbeaux, S., Farley, E., Heintz, R., Horne, J., Parker-Stetter, S., Petrik, C.M., Siddon, E.C., Smart, T.I. 2016. A review and ecological synthesis of the first year of life of walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) in the eastern Bering Sea and comments on implications for recruitment. Deep-Sea Research II 134: 283– 301 doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.02.001
- Petrik, C.M., Duffy-Anderson, J.T., Castruccio, F., Curchitser, E.N., Danielson, S.L., Hedstrom, K., Mueter, F.J. 2016. Modeled connectivity between Walleye Pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus) spawning and age-0 nursery areas in warm and cold years with implications for juvenile survival. ICES Journal of Marine Science 73: 1890–1900 doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsw004
- Petrik, C.M., Duffy-Anderson, J.T., Mueter, F., Hedstrom, K., Curchitser, E.N. 2015. Biophysical transport model suggests climate variability determines distribution of Walleye Pollock early life stages in the eastern Bering Sea through effects on spawning. Progress in Oceanography 138: 459–474 doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2014.06.004
- Petrik, C.M., Ji, R., Davis, C.S. 2014. Interannual differences in larval haddock survival: hypothesis testing with a 3D biophysical model of Georges Bank. Fisheries Oceanography 23: 521–553 doi:10.1111/fog.12087
- Petrik, C.M., Jackson, G.A, Checkley, D.M. 2013. Aggregates and their distributions determined from LOPC observations made using an autonomous profiling float. Deep- Sea Research I 74: 64–81 doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2012.12.009
- Petrik, C.M., Kristiansen, T., Lough, R.G., Davis, C.S. 2009. Prey selection of larval haddock and cod on copepods with species-specific behavior: an individual-based model analysis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 396: 123–143 doi:10.3354/meps08268
- Hu, Q., Davis, C.S., and Petrik, C.M. 2008. A simplified age-stage model for copepod population dynamics. Marine Ecology Progress Series 360: 179–187 doi:10.3354/meps07314
- Hu, Q., Petrik, C.M., and Davis, C.S. 2007. Normal versus gamma: Stochastic models of copepod molting rate. Journal of Plankton Research 29: 985-997
Additional Information
Academic Appointments
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, accepted start date of Sep 2017
Associate Research Scholar and Senior Nereus Fellow, Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University, Sep 2015 – present
Assistant Project Scientist, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Oct 2013 – Sep 2015
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Oct 2012 – Oct 2013
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Oceanography, Jan 2011 – Sep 2012
