About
Dr. Brewster is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fisheries Oceanography at the School for Marine Science and Technology. She has a broad range of research interests, with much of her work focused on how environmental variability and human activities influence the behavior, energetics, and ecology of fishes, with implications for fisheries management.
Dr. Brewster's research integrates animal-borne tagging technologies, biologging, laboratory experiments, and quantitative modeling—including machine learning approaches—to study fine-scale fish behavior in natural environments. A central goal of her work is to link individual-level responses to population- and ecosystem-level management questions, including shark depredation, discard mortality, habitat use, and ecosystem-based fisheries management.
Dr. Brewster leads the Brewster Fisheries Lab, where they investigate the impacts of climate change, anthropogenic interactions, and environmental variability on fishes, often using interdisciplinary methods and citizen-science approaches to address applied and fundamental questions in marine science.
Dr. Brewster collaborates widely with academic, government, and industry partners and has led or contributed to projects funded by NSF, NOAA/NMFS, the Department of Defense, BOEM, and private foundations.