Connie Kot

Connie is a research associate at the Center for Marine Conservation, Duke Marine Lab and is part of the Geospatial Marine Ecology Lab while working on a variety of projects, including the Global Bycatch Assessment Project and OBIS-SEAMAP.  For Project Global, Connie's main interests are in analyzing the spatial patterns and linkages among fisheries effort, protected species distribution, bycatch, and the environment.

Prior to coming to Duke, she worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment's Biogeography Team on developing a geographic information system (GIS) to reduce sea turtle bycatch in US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico fisheries.  Before NOAA, Connie had a diverse background in freshwater habitats, marine mammals and sea turtles, artificial reefs, estuaries and tidal creek health, but the ultimate goal of conservation was the same.

Connie received a Marine Biology MS at the University of Charleston and a Biology BS and Environmental Studies BS at Binghamton University, SUNY.

For more information, visit Connie’s website at: http://www.duke.edu/~cy26/