Dr. Benjamin H. Sherman
- Climate Dynamics
- Global Atmospheric Research
- Ecology
- Fisheries
- Computer and Computation Research
- Environmental Science
- Coastal Development
- Ecological Indicators
- Endangered Species
- Habitat Loss
- Harmful Algal Blooms
- Hypoxia
- Invasive Species
- Overfishing and Bycatch
- Pollution
- Public Health
- Restoration
- Sustainable Development
- Geographic Information Science (GIS)
- Industrial Science and Technological Innovation
- Modeling
- Networking and Communications Research
- Biological Oceanography
- Research Instrumentation
- Decision, Risk and Management Science
- Economics
- Geography
- M.S. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA, 1991
- B.S. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA, 1994
- Ph.D. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA, 2000
Dr. Sherman is the director of the Health Ecological & Economic Dimensions of Major Disturbances Program (HEED MD). He is an ecologist specializing in marine wildlife and human epidemiology, ecosystem disturbance, and applications of information technology to track mortality, new emergent and resurgent diseases. His focus is on data collection, data reduction, data mining, and monitoring. Dr. Sherman is the custodian of the Health, Ecological and Economic Dimensions of Global Change Program (HEED) 1930's to year 2000 - data/project - originally housed at Harvard University. He has consulted with a wide variety of public resource management agencies involved in environmental inventory, assessment and monitoring of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems using biological indicators.