Paige ROBERTS

Paige is a fisheries ecologist and geographic information systems (GIS) expert with a passion for environmental conservation and resilient, inclusive fisheries management. Her work combines research on fish diversity, abundance, and habitats, vessel movement patterns and illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, marine spatial planning principles, and participatory management systems to support sustainable fisheries, especially in data-poor environments. Paige has led a wide range of research projects across various fishery systems and geographies, from implementing fish catch data collection in Somalia, to tagging blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay in the United States, to facilitating training on monitoring, control, and surveillance techniques. She conducted spatial analyses of illegal fishing in the Celebes Sea, Philippines, and marine protected areas of the Coral Triangle region as a consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Global Maritime Crime Program (UNODC-GMCP) to help guide enforcement efforts in the region. She is a maritime analyst for Skylight, a program of the Allen Institute for AI, where she applies her knowledge to the use of artificial intelligence and remotely sensed data to track fishing effort around the world. She is Skylight’s representative to the Joint Analytical Cell (JAC), which provides authorities with fisheries intelligence, data analysis, and capacity building to help combat IUU fishing. She is also Skylight’s satellite data collection manager, coordinating commercial satellite imagery orders to support fisheries enforcement activities. Paige holds a MSc in GIS management from Salisbury University and a BSc from the University of Miami in marine science and biology.