Andrew Edwards

Research Scientist

Pacific Biological Station

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Nanaimo, BC, Canada

Publications, stock assessments, etc.

Abstracts

Background

I am a Research Scientist at the Pacific Biological Station (part of Fisheries and Oceans Canada) in Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. I am an ecological modeller, and my research interests are wide, from the smallest marine plants to the largest seabirds.

The latter relates to our Nature paper entitled Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer, that was also the focus of an article in Science.

Current work involves stock assessments of Pacific ocean perch and yellowmouth rockfish along the coast of British Columbia. These use age- and sex-structured population models, fitted to data in a Bayesian context. My work concerning the use of Lévy flights in modelling animal movement continues, focussing on the incorrect methods that people have used to analyse data.

I moved from the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK, where I held the somewhat uniquely-named position of Biosphere Complexity Analyst. I was previously a Research Associate in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia on the east coast of Canada, where I worked with Dr. Ransom Myers on the impacts of industrial fishing and co-taught a course entitled 'An Introduction to Biological Modelling'. I also worked with Dr. Trevor Platt and Dr. Shubha Sathyendranath for five years at the nearby Bedford Institute of Oceanography (also part of Fisheries and Oceans Canada), on modelling of the plankton ecosystem. Before that I was in Dr. Hal Caswell's lab at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, also working on plankton modelling. I obtained my Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, supervised by Prof. John Brindley at the University of Leeds, UK.

Research Interests

Mathematical ecology and biology, dynamical systems, plankton population modelling, marine ecosystems, theoretical ecology, structure of models, food webs, biological-physical coupling in oceanography, biodiversity, MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) methods, state-space models, animal movement.

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