Chris Sullivan

Chris joined the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit as an Assistant Unit Leader in December 2024. Broadly speaking, Chris is a fisheries ecologist with an increasingly stronger focus on applied quantitative methods, allowing him to address complex ecological questions with practical, data-driven solutions. Chris uses multiple approaches to research including observational field studies, data syntheses, and rigorous statistical and simulation modeling approaches. His research is directly tied to state and federal agency needs, allowing him to foster and maintain and healthy and productive relationship with practitioners throughout and outside of the country.