I am primarily interested in quantifying the extent of human-induced changes on marine communities and in evaluating the need for and success of different management initiatives. In my research I strive to place contemporary patterns in context with long-term changes. I also developed and run eShark.org, a project that facilitates and collects statistically useful data…
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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…
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Project Conservation strategies worldwide are designed around species distributions and biogeographic patterns, often under the assumption that these patterns are relatively stable. With climate change, however, distributions are now shifting as species seek more suitable conditions. There is an urgent need for credible predictions of future species distributions to guide conservation planning. Nowhere is this…
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Mapping biodiversity and human impact drivers to assess high-seas conservation priorities I’m broadly interested in marine ecology, conservation planning and prioritization. In particular, I’m interested in the role that apex predators play in structuring marine ecosystems and contributing to their resilience, and how planning can accommodate this. I visited the Worm lab during the summer…
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For my Ph.D. project I am investigating spatially and temporally explicit models to evaluate the effects of large-scale fisheries closures on marine animal populations. The use of large-scale time-area closures has been used as a conservation measure to rebuild depleted stocks. My project looks at the ecological aspects of such closures and aims at developing…
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As the Education & Outreach Liaison for the FMAP project, I coordinate E&O activities for FMAP, including writing articles for the general public on research being performed within the group, and working with the Census of Marine Life on E&O activities. My background is in science and magazine writing/editing, and in the past I have…
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I have research interests in the patterns, processes, threats and conservation of marine biodiversity. I target these issues with a variety of approaches including experimental work, meta-analysis of databases, modeling, and expert surveys.
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Meta-analysis of multispecies interactions and the affect on recruitment in demersal fish stocks My project focusses on incorporating multispecies effects into latent variable covariance models that have been used to estimate density dependence within species (see Myers and Cadigan, 1993). Using long-term survey data from many different stocks, it is possible to elucidate the underlying…
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