Marion wants to solve the herring life-history enigmas
Marion Claireaux has started her PhD studies on herring life-history changes. The study is part of the ConEvolHer project lead by the Institute of Marine Research.
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Marion comes from , a French fishermen鈥檚 island near Canada. She obtained a MSc in Marine Biology from the , France. Marion is mainly interested in theoretical aspects of biology, especially evolutionary biology and the consequences of human harvesting on life-history traits.
In her PhD project within the , funded by the Norwegian Resaerch Council, Marion is working on energy allocation and fishing-induced changes in growth, condition, reproduction, and behaviour in pelagic fish species, with the Norwegian spring-spawning herring as a model. The aim of her project is to investigate why pelagic species seem not to respond to fishing pressure as life-history theory would predict it.
Marion is employed by the Institute of Marine Research (IMR). Her main supervisor is . At the University of Bergen she is hosted by the EvoFish group, with听Mikko Heino听as the co-supervisor.
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