Joey O’Brien

Joey O’Brien is a laboratory researcher at the Haskin Shellfish Research lab where he assists in field research related to fisheries management, stock assessments, coastal ecology, aquaculture, and offshore development. After graduating from Towson University in 2017 with a Bachelor’s in Biology and minors in Chemistry and Molecular Biology he went to work as a fisheries observer in the Alaska Observer program. In 2019, he left the observer program and began working at HSRL as a seasonal field technician, contributing to projects focused on the Delaware Bay oyster fishery and shoreline restoration. After his seasonal position ended, he worked as an intern at the Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory in the Fisheries Ecology lab working on projects related to the red snapper fisheries management plan. Once the internship ended, he made his way back to HSRL where he worked on projects related to shellfish aquaculture before settling in as a long term technician examining impacts of offshore wind development on fisheries resources off the coast of New Jersey.