Profile
Department: Science & Standards
Division: Science & Research
Research interests
Climate Change, Data Limited Methods for fisheries management, Impact Assessments.
She works with the MSC team of data scientists and researchers, and together they explore and strengthen the scientific evidence that supports our program.
Katie has expertise in market-based incentives, data-poor fisheries assessments, impact assessments and measures of biodiversity.
Katie has a broad range of interests across multiple disciplines, with the common thread of finding new and better ways to use available science to inform marine management and sustainable seafood markets.
Previously, as Project Scientist at The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), Katie contributed to the creation of the Ocean Health Index - a framework for the assessment of the delivery of sustainable societal goals from healthy oceans.
Over the past decade her projects, in collaboration with researchers around the world, included developing tools to better manage fisheries that are data limited, and forensic techniques to monitor seafood traceability.
Thesis - “Predator-prey interactions and indicators of the impact of fisheries on fish species diversity”.
MSc. & BSc. (2004) in Integrated Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology, University of Rome – Sapienza.
Thesis - "Feeding ecology and reproductive biology of Argentina sphyraena and Glossanodon leioglossus (Teleostea, Argentinidae) in the Central Tyrrhenian Sea".
Recent research
Drivers of success, speed and performance in fisheries moving towards Marine Stewardship Council certification
Dec
2023 ˑ Fish and Fisheries
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/faf.12805
Jennifer Rasal, Michael Melnychuk, Amanda Lejbowicz, Carlos Montero-Castaño, Sophie Ferber, Catherine Longo
Drivers of conflict and resilience in shifting transboundary fisheries
July 2023 ˑ Marine Policy 155(4)
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105740
Jacqueline M Vogel, Catherine Longo, Jessica Spijkers, Juliano Palacios
Abrantes, Julia Mason, Colette CC Wabnitz, William Cheung, Rashid Sumaila, Gordon Munro, Sarah Glase, Johann D. Bell, Yongchun Tian, Nancy Shackell, Elizabeth R Selig, Philippe Le Billon, James Reginald Watson, Cullen Hendrix, Malin L Pinsky, Ingrid
van putten, Kendra Karr, Eva A. Papaioannou, Rod Fujita.
Corrected numbers and assumptions for understanding MSC certified fishery withdrawals: Commentary on Pierucci et al.
June 2023 ˑ Marine Policy 155
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105683
Samantha Lees, Catherine Longo, Michael Melnychuk, Polly Burns, Beth Polidoro.
Identifying sustainability priorities among value chain actors in artisanal common octopus fisheries
March 2023 ˑ Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 33(2)
DOI: 10.1007/s11160-023-09768-5
Gillian B Ainsworth, Pablo Pita, Cristina Pita, Katina Roumbedakis, Graham John Pierce, Catherine Longo, Gregory M Verutes, Tereza Pilar Fonseca, Daniela Pio Castelo, Carlos Montero-Castaño, Julio Valeiras, Francisco Rocha, Laura García de la Fuente, José Luis Acuña, M. del Pino Fernández Rueda, Alberto Garazo Fabregat, Alberto Martín-Aristín, Sebastian Villasante.
Disentangling global market drivers for cephalopods to foster transformations towards sustainable seafood systems
February 2023 ˑ People and Nature
DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10442
Gillian B Ainsworth, Pablo Pita, João Garcia Rodrigues, Cristina Pita,
Katina Roumbedakis, Tereza Pilar Fonseca, Daniela Pio Castelo, Catherine Longo, Anne Marie Power, Graham John Pierce, Sebastian Villasante.
Quantifying fish range shifts across poorly defined management boundaries
January 2023 ˑ PLoS ONE 18(1):e0279025
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0279025
Juliano Palacios Abrantes, Scott Crosson, Chris Dumas, Rod
Fujita, Arielle Sarah Levine, Catherine Longo, Olaf Jensen.
Media
The Guardian: Too little, too late: the desperate search for cod babies
China Dialogue Ocean: The chemical fingerprints that could combat global seafood fraud
Meet more of the team
Dr. Beth Polidoro
Research Director
Dr. Michael Melnychuk
Principal Scientist (Data Science)
Dr. Andreas Tsakiridis
Senior Economist
Lauren Koerner
Climate Change Spatial Analyst