Recently published at about the same time: our PLOS ONEpaper on marine animal movements, and our Stock Assessment for Yellowmouth Rockfish. Although quite different, both focus on a likelihood approach to analysing data.
The above paper and an earlier one have both been recommended on Faculty of 1000. See and
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.
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 research interests are wide, from the smallest marine plants to the largest seabirds. The latter relates to our Nature paper that was also the focus of an article in Science. This has led to further research concerning movement patterns of a variety of foragers, including microzooplankton, grey seals and even fisherman. Five of my first-author papers have each been cited at least 50 times.
My background is in mathematics, and my first foray into ecology was as an undergraduate NERC summer student with Dr. Simon Wood, investigating properties of the Ricker model with noise. In a pleasing turn of events, I now work where Dr. Bill Ricker did much of his work. I have done cruises on the Research Vessel W.E. Ricker, my office looks out onto a road called "Ricker's curve", and I (apparently) have a bookcase that was once belonged to Dr. Ricker.
I moved to Nanaimo 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
Fisheries, stock assessments, statistical methods for analysing fisheries data, effects of ocean acidification, general modelling in marine ecology, methods for analysing animal movements, mathematical ecology and biology, dynamical systems, plankton population modelling, theoretical ecology, structure of models, food webs, biological-physical coupling in oceanography, biodiversity, MCMC (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) methods, state-space models.
Dr. Andrew M. Edwards
Pacific Biological Station
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
3190 Hammond Bay Road
Nanaimo, BC, V9T 6N7
Canada
Tel: 1 250 756 7146
Fax: 1 250 756 7053
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