I am a research scientist based jointly at the Dalhousie University, the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the Computational Ecology and Environmental Science group at Microsoft Research. I am interested in human impacts on biodiversity in the oceans, the distribution and biogeography of marine species, and the effects of sampling and scale. My work is a combination of statistical analyses, theoretical modelling, field observation, and experiments.