Andy Edwards' CV

Dr. Andrew M. Edwards

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Publications (see below for stock assessments)

James, A., Plank, M.J, and Edwards, A.M. (2011): Assessing Lévy walks as models of animal foraging.; Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 8(62):1233-1247. [Abstract][.pdf file] (576Kb)
Edwards, A.M. (2011): Overturning conclusions of Lévy flight movement patterns by fishing boats and foraging animals.; Ecology, 92(6):1247-1257. [Abstract] [.pdf file] (1.66Mb, colour figures); (Due to a publisher's error the original 632Kb pdf file posted by Ecology had poor quality figures; this was corrected on 14th July 2011); [Ecological Archives electronic appendix] (806Kb, 25 pages with colour)
Gross, T., Edwards, A.M., and Feudel, U. (2009): The invisible niche: Weakly density-dependent mortality and the coexistence of species.; Journal of Theoretical Biology, 258:148-155. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.01.018 [Abstract] [.pdf file] (512Kb, colour figures).
Edwards, A.M. (2008): Using likelihood to test for Lévy flight search patterns and for general power-law distributions in nature.; Journal of Animal Ecology, 77:1212-1222. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01428.x [Abstract] [.pdf file] (498Kb)
Edwards, A.M., R.A. Phillips, N.W. Watkins, M.P. Freeman, E.J. Murphy, V. Afanasyev,: S.V. Buldyrev, M.G.E. da Luz, E.P. Raposo, H.E. Stanley and G.M. Viswanathan (2007); Revisiting Lévy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer; Nature, 449:1044-1048, 2007. doi:10.1038/nature06199; [Abstract] [.pdf file] (430Kb, colour figures) [Supplementary Information] (4.3Mb, 41 pages, pages 36-41 have colour figures); The paper was the focus of a Science article, and received wider media coverage.; It was also highlighted as one of the British Antarctic Survey's top five papers of the year, and has recently been used in Cosma Shalizi's Statistics course (see here).
Edwards, A.M. (2006): Negative zooplankton do not exist - a response to `On the stability of some equilibrium points in a plankton population model'.; Dynamical Systems, 21(2):231-233.; [Abstract] Click here to obtain a .pdf file (72 Kb).
Edwards, A.M., D.G. Wright and T. Platt (2004): Biological heating effect of a band of phytoplankton.; Journal of Marine Systems, 49:89-103.; Invited contribution to refereed special issue: 'Biophysical factors affecting growth and survival of aquatic organisms'.; [Abstract] Click here to obtain a .pdf file (612 Kb), pages 94 and 96 are in colour.
Edwards, A.M., T. Platt and S. Sathyendranath (2004): The high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll regime of the ocean: limits on biomass and nitrate before and after iron enrichment.; Ecological Modelling, 171:103-125, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2003.06.001.; [Abstract] [.pdf file] (pages 120-122 have colour figures)
Platt T., S. Sathyendranath, A.M. Edwards, D.S. Broomhead and O. Ulloa (2003): Nitrate supply and demand in the mixed layer of the ocean.; Marine Ecology Progress Series, 254:3-9.; [Abstract] [.pdf file] (page 5 has a colour figure)
Platt T., D.S. Broomhead, S. Sathyendranath, A.M. Edwards and E.J. Murphy (2003): Phytoplankton biomass and residual nitrate in the pelagic ecosystem.
Proceedings of The Royal Society, Series A., 459:1063-1073, doi: 10.1098/rspa.2002.1079. [Abstract][.pdf file]
Edwards, A.M., T. Platt and D.G. Wright (2001): Biologically induced circulation at fronts.
Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 106(C4):7081-7095.; [Abstract] [.pdf file, 2.5Mb] (pages 5-7 have colour figures; or email me for a colour reprint).
Edwards, A.M. (2001): Adding detritus to a nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton model: a dynamical-systems approach.
Journal of Plankton Research, 23(4):389-413.; [Abstract] Click here to obtain a .pdf file (652 Kb); According to ISI, this is the journal's 4th most cited paper for 2001 (excluding self-citations), out of 115 total papers.
Edwards, A.M., and M.A. Bees (2001): Generic dynamics of a simple plankton population model with a non-integer exponent of closure.
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 12:289-300.; Invited contribution for a special issue entitled `Chaos in Ecology'.; [Abstract] Click here to obtain a .pdf file (383 Kb, pages 294 and 295 have colour)
Edwards, A.M., and A. Yool (2000).: The role of higher predation in plankton population models.
Journal of Plankton Research, 22(6):1085-1112. [Abstract][.pdf file]; Note that the journal's original two attempts at .pdf files contained errors (and did not match the published version), but that this latest version seems okay.; According to ISI, this is the journal's most cited paper of the 142 published in 2000 (excluding self-citations).
Edwards, A.M. and J. Brindley. (1999).: Zooplankton mortality and the dynamical behaviour of plankton population models.
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 61(2):303-339. [Abstract] .pdf file; Highlighted by the Society for Mathematical Biology as the third most cited article in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology since 1999
Edwards, A.M. and J. Brindley. (1996).: Oscillatory behaviour in a three-component plankton population model.; Dynamics and Stability of Systems 11(4):347-370. [Abstract][.pdf file, 1.2Mb]; According to ISI, this is the second most cited paper ever from this journal (or its successor Dynamical Systems).

Stock assessments and technical reports

DFO (2012).: Recovery Potential Assessment for Yellowmouth Rockfish (Sebastes reedi) along the Pacific Coast of Canada.; DFO Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Scientific Advisory Report 2011/060 20p. [.pdf file]; This is the Science Advisory Report arising from the review meeting of our full stock assessment - the full revised assessment will be available soon.
Keightley, S.J., A.M. Edwards, and C.A. Holt (2011).: Potential for using multivariate autoregressive models to investigate dynamics of British Columbia groundfish communities, including appraisal of the LAMBDA software package.; Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2968: iv + 24 p. [.pdf file available soon at this link]
DFO (2011).: Stock assessment for Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus) in Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia in 2010.; DFO Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Scientific Advisory Report 2011/017 11p. [.pdf file]; This is the Science Advisory Report arising from the review meeting of our full stock assessment - the full revised assessment is in press and will be available soon.

Articles

Edwards, A.M. (2004).: Report on the Alcala 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Ecology,
Newsletter of the Society of Mathematical Biology, 17(1):5-6. Download full issue.

Edwards, A.M., T. Platt and D.G. Wright (2000).: Biologically-induced circulation at fronts,
Extended abstract in ICES Cooperative Research Report, 240:49-50, Report on the Young Scientists Conference on Marine Ecosystem Perspectives.

Edwards, A.M. (1998).: A guide to converting output from the dynamical systems package Auto into high-quality postscript
UK Nonlinear News (an electronic journal), Issue Eleven, February 1998.

Edwards, A.M. (1996).

A comparison of the dynamical systems packages Locbif and Auto.

UK Nonlinear News (an electronic journal), Issue Three, January 1996.

Education

Ph.D., Applied Mathematics (1997): Department of Applied Mathematical Studies,; University of Leeds, England
A Rational Dynamical-Systems Approach to Plankton Population Modelling [Abstract] Contact me for .pdf file.
B.A. (Oxon.), Mathematics (1993): Worcester College,; University of Oxford, England

Research Experience

Research Scientist (August 2007 - present): Pacific Biological Station
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Biosphere Complexity Analyst (October 2005 - August 2007): British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge, UK.
Research Associate (July 2003 - October 2005): Department of Biology
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
I worked with Prof. Ransom Myers
Postdoctoral Research Associate (July 2001 - 2003): Biological Oceanography Division,
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
I worked with Dr. Trevor Platt and Dr. Shubha Sathyendranath.
Funded by DFO, paid through Department of Oceanography,
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
NSERC Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow (July 1998 - July 2001): Biological Oceanography Division,
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada,
Nova Scotia, Canada.
With Dr. Trevor Platt.
Postdoctoral Exchange Visitor (November 1997 - May 1998): Biology Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts, USA.
With Dr. Hal Caswell.
NERC Summer Vacation Research Worker (June - August 1992): NERC Centre for Population Biology
Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, England.
With Dr. Simon Wood.

Conferences and Workshops Attended

Presented work at the following (in England unless stated, not up to date):
September 2003: Second Alcala International Conference on Mathematical Ecology, Alcala de Henares, Spain.
June 2003: First Joint Meeting of CAIMS (Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society) & SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), Montreal, Canada.
February 2003: `ASLO (American Society of Limnology and Oceanography) 2003 Aquatic Sciences Meeting', Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
September 2002: `JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study) Equatorial Pacific Synthesis and Modeling Workshop', Walpole, Maine, USA. [.pdf file of presentation] *Invited participant*
February 2002: `AGU (American Geophysical Union) and ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting', Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
February 2001: `ASLO 2001 Aquatic Sciences Meeting', Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
June 2000: `First WOCE (World Ocean Circulation Experiment) Young Investigators Workshop', University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
November 1999: `ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) Young Scientists Conference on Marine Ecosystem Perspectives', Gilleleje, Denmark.
January 1999: International scientific symposium - `Biogeochemistry of the Arabian Sea: Synthesis and Modelling', Bangalore, India.
`JGOFS Training Course on Biogeochemical Modelling of the Ocean', Bangalore, India.
May 1997: `International JGOFS Modelling Symposium', Oban, Scotland.
Summer 1996: Six-week `Mathematical Modelling of Plankton Population Dynamics' workshop, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge.
`Modelling the Role of Zooplankton in the Marine Food Chain,' a GLOBEC (GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics) conference embedded within the workshop.
April 1996: `International Workshop on Spatial Heterogeneity and Temporal Complexity in Biological Systems', University of Bath.
March 1996: Prodynamics '96 - `Progress in Theory and Applications of Modelling Aquatic Population Dynamics', University of Hamburg, Germany.
April 1995: British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Birmingham.
January 1995: Plankton Population Modelling Workshop, University of Leeds.
Attended the following:
September 1997: `British Association for the Advancement of Science' Annual Festival, University of Leeds.
June - July 1995: Woods Hole Summer School - `Food Webs; Analysis and Interpretation in Terrestrial, Marine and Freshwater Systems,' Cornell University, USA.
April 1995: EPSRC Applied Nonlinear Mathematics Spring School, University of Guildford.
September 1994: Royal Society Discussion Meeting, `The Role of the North Atlantic in the Global Carbon Cycle,' London.
April 1994: SERC Applied Nonlinear Mathematics Spring School, University of Leeds.
April 1994: British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, University of Sheffield.
September 1993: Plankton Population Modelling Workshop, University of Leeds.
February 1989: Three Day Mathematics Workshop, Hertfordshire.
Autumn 1984: Series of Royal Institution Mathematics Masterclasses.

Scholarships & Fellowships

NSERC Visiting Fellowship in a Canadian Government Laboratory: Held at Bedford Institute of Oceanography; Working with Dr. Trevor Platt, July 1998 - July 2001
William Wright Smith Scholarship: Covered Ph.D. fees and subsistence for three years; University of Leeds, England.

Refereeing Duties

Referee for over twenty international scientific journals: Subjects included ecology, biological oceanography, physical oceanography, mathematics.
Reviewer for:: Natural Environment Research Council, UK; National Science Foundation, USA; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA

Professional Societies

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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