Postdoctoral Fellow

Raquel (she/hers) is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington -School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (UW SAFS) and the Northwest Fishery Science Center (NOAA NWFSC). Currently, she is working with André Punt (UW SAFS), Isaac Kaplan (NOAA NWFSC), Kristin Marshall (NOAA NWFSC) and Sophia Wassermann (NOAA AFSC) to expand a climate-enhanced age-based model with temperature-specific trophic linkages and energetics (CEATTLE) for Pacific hake to include main predators and prey species and conduct simulations to better understand the performance of a range of target fishing mortality rates and reference points in a multispecies context.

Raquel received her PhD in Fisheries Sciences in October 2024 from the Fisheries and Marine Institute, Memorial University, Canada. Her PhD focused on modelling biomass and distribution (sdmTMB) of three key species in the Grand Banks: Atlantic cod, yellowtail flounder and snow crab, and their response to future ocean warming in the region. She also developed a multispecies size spectrum model (MIZER) that included 11 species to assess bottom-up vs top-down dynamics in the system. Raquel also holds experience working on climate change adaptation in the fishing sector and was a contributing author of the AR6 IPCC report.