Email mfabrizio@vims.edu Office Fisheries Science Laboratory 135, 137 Phone (804) 684-7308

Mary C. Fabrizio Associate Professor of Marine Science B.S., Biological Sciences 1978, Fordham University, New York, NY Ph.D., Biological Oceanography 1985, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI President, American Fisheries Society

Research Interests Current Projects Selected Publications Current Students Courses Taught / Teaching Awards Professional Memberships

• Determining population-level changes of Chesapeake Bay fishes of importance to fisheries management using long-term survey data
• Understanding fish distribution, movement, habitat use, and dispersal in terms of individual behavioral responses to environmental and habitat changes
• Estimating survival rates and exploring questions of interest to fishery managers using mark-recapture studies

• Virginia trawl survey for juvenile fishes (with Marcel Montane). Funded by the VMRC and NOAA-Chesapeake Bay Office
• Juvenile striped bass seine survey (with Mandy Hewitt and Julia Ellis). Funded by Wallop-Breaux (USFWS)
• Understanding localized movements and habitat associations of summer flounder in Chesapeake Bay (with Jon Lucy). Funded by Virginia Marine Resources Commission
• Towards validation of juvenile indices of abundance for several fish species in Chesapeake Bay (with Dr. Rob Latour and C. Bonzek). Funded by Virginia Marine Resources Commission
• Habitat affinity of demersal species in disturbed coastal environments (with John Manderson and Jeff Pessutti). Funded by the US Army Corps of Engineers
• Factors affecting catch and release mortality of Atlantic coast bluefish (with Fred Scharf, Gary Shepherd, and John Rosendale). Funded by NOAA-Fisheries Service

Hubert, W. and M. C. Fabrizio. In Press. Relative abundance and catch/effort relationships. Chapter 7 in Analysis and Interpretation of Freshwater Fisheries Data. Edited by M. Brown and C. Guy. American Fisheries Society.

M. C. Fabrizio and J. P. Pessutti. 2007. Long-term effects and recovery from surgical implantation of dummy transmitters in two marine fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 351:243-254.

Pollock, K. H., J. Yoshizaki, M. C. Fabrizio, and S. T. Schram. 2007. Factors affecting survival rates of a recovering lake trout population estimated by mark-recapture in Lake Superior, 1969-1996. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:185-194.

Scharf, F. S., J. P. Manderson and M. C. Fabrizio. 2006. The effects of seafloor habitat complexity on survival of juvenile fishes: species-specific interactions with structural refuge. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 335:167-176.

Simmonds, R., and M. C. Fabrizio. 2006. Fisheries employment in the US Federal Government. Pages 79-96 in D. A. Hewitt, W. E. Pine III, and A.V. Zale, eds. The AFS Guide to Fisheries Employment, 2nd edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

Scharf, F. S., J. P. Manderson, M. C. Fabrizio, J. P. Pessutti, J. E. Rosendale, A. J. Bejda, and R. J. Chant. 2004. Seasonal and interannual patterns of distribution and diet of bluefish within a Middle Atlantic Bight estuary in relation to abiotic and biotic factors. Estuaries 27:426-436.

Fabrizio, M. C. 2004. Experimental design and sampling strategies for mixed-stock analysis. Chapter 23 in Stock Identification Methods. Edited by S. Cadrin, K. Friedland, and J. Waldman. Academic Press.

Fabrizio, M. C., R. M. Dorazio, and S. T. Schram. 2001. Dynamics of individual growth in a recovering population of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences 58: 262-272.

Fabrizio, M. C., J. Raz, and R. Bandekar. 2000. Using linear models with correlated errors to analyze changes in abundance of Lake Michigan fishes: 1973-1992. Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences 57:775-788.

Fabrizio, M. C., J. D. Nichols, J. E. Hines, B. L. Swanson, and S. T. Schram. 1999. Modeling data from double-tagging experiments to estimate heterogeneous rates of tag shedding in lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences 56:1409-1419.

Savino, J. F., P. L. Hudson, M. C. Fabrizio, C. A. Bowen II. 1999. Predation on lake trout eggs and fry: a modeling approach. Journal of Great Lakes Research 25:36-44.

Schram, S. T., and M. C. Fabrizio. 1998. Longevity of Lake Superior lake trout. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 18:700-703.

Fabrizio, M. C., J. V. Adams, and G. L. Curtis. 1997. Assessing prey fish populations in Lake Michigan: comparison of simultaneous acoustic-midwater trawling with bottom trawling. Fisheries Research 33:37-54. (1997 Moffett Award)

Fabrizio, M. C., M. E. Holey, P. C. McKee, and M. L. Toneys. 1997. Survival rates of adult lake trout in northwestern Lake Michigan, 1983-1993. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 17:413-428.

Waldman, J. R., R. A. Richards, W. B. Schill, I. Wirgin, and M. C. Fabrizio. 1997. An empirical comparison of stock identification techniques applied to striped bass. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 126:369-385. (1997 Best paper in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society)

Fabrizio, M. C., and R. A. Richards. 1996. Commercial fisheries surveys. Pages 625-650 [Chapter 21] in B. R. Murphy and D. W. Willis, eds., Fisheries Techniques, 2nd edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

Fabrizio, M. C., and S. R. Nelson. 1995. Find the fish: Using PROC SQL to build a relational database for a mark-recapture study. Pages 238-243 in SAS Institute, Client/Server Computing with the SAS System: Tips and Techniques. SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, NC.

Fabrizio, M. C., A. M. Frank, and J. F. Savino. 1995. Procedures for formation of composite samples from segmented populations. Environmental Science and Technology 29: 1137-1144.

• Justine Woodward, M.S. Program.
• Branson Williams, M.S. Program.
• Karen Capossela, M.S. Program.

• MSCI 669 Statistical Analysis of Fisheries Data
• MSCI 698 Fisheries Data Management and Analysis (with C. Bonzek)

• NOAA Bronze Medal Award, 2006
• Distinguished Service Award, American Fisheries Society 1998
• Most significant paper published in 1997 in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society - August 1998 (Waldman et al. 1997)
• James W. Moffett Award for outstanding scientific paper published in 1997, Great Lakes Science Center - August 1998 (Fabrizio, Adams, and Curtis 1997)

• American Association of University Women
• American Fisheries Society (AFS)
  • President Elect
  • Chair, AFS Awards Committee
  • Chair, AFS Membership Committee
  • Member, AFS Meeting Oversight Committee
• American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists - Fellow
• The Biometric Society
• Estuarine Research Federation
• Phi Beta Kappa