Andy Edwards' CV

Dr. Andrew M. Edwards

Google Scholar Profile (automatically more up-to-date than the list below)

GitHub homepage


Publications (see below for stock assessments)

Anderson, S.C., N. Mulberry, A.M. Edwards, J.E. Stockdale, S.A. Iyaniwura, R.C. Falcao, M.C. Otterstatter, N.Z. Janjua, D. Coombs, C. Colijn (2021).
How much leeway is there to relax COVID-19 control measures?
Epidemics, 35:100453. Available here.

Anderson, S.C., A.M. Edwards, M. Yerlanov, N. Mulberry, J. Stockdale, S.A. Iyaniwura, R.C. Falcao, M.C. Otterstatter, M.A. Irvine, N.Z. Janjua, D. Coombs, C. Colijn (2020)
Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 control measures using a Bayesian model of physical distancing.
PLoS Computational Biology, 16(12):e1008274. Available here.

Anderson, S.C., E.A. Keppel and A.M. Edwards (2020).
Reproducible visualization of raw fisheries data for 113 species improves transparency, assessment efficiency, and monitoring.
Fisheries, 45(10):535-543. Available here.

Edwards, A.M., J.P.W. Robinson, J.L. Blanchard, J.K. Baum and M.J. Plank (2020).
Accounting for the bin structure of data reduces bias when fitting size spectra.
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 636:19-33. Available here.
Associated code is in the R package sizeSpectra.

Edwards, A.M. and M. Auger-Méthé (2019).
Some guidance on using mathematical notation in ecology.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10:92-99. Available here. Abstract.

Edwards, A.M., J.P.W. Robinson, M.J. Plank, J.K. Baum and J.L. Blanchard (2017).
Testing and recommending methods for fitting size spectra to data.
Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8:57-67. Available here (with Supporting Information). Abstract.
GitHub repository of the R code for reproducing all results and using the methods on other data.

Robinson, J.P.W., I.D. Williams, A.M. Edwards, J. McPherson, L. Yeager, L. Vigliola, R.E. Brainard and J.K. Baum (2017).
Fishing degrades size structure of coral reef fish communities.
Global Change Biology, 23: 1009-1022 here (with Supporting Information). Abstract.

Hertz, E., Trudel, M., El-Sabaawi, R., Tucker, S., Dower, J.F., Beacham, T.D., Edwards, A.M., Mazumder, A. (2016)
Hitting the moving target: modelling ontogenetic shifts with stable isotopes reveals the importance of isotopic turnover.
Journal of Animal Ecology, 85(3): 681-691. Abstract .pdf and Supporting Information freely available on journal website. Supporting Information includes model parameterisation, R code and extended results.

Haigh, R., Ianson, D., Holt, C.A., Neate, H.E., and Edwards, A.M. (2015)
Effects of ocean acidification on temperate coastal marine ecosystems and fisheries in the northeast Pacific.
PLoS ONE,10(2): e0117533. [Abstract] [.pdf freely available on journal website]
[Supporting Information, including extensive details of referenced studies and R source code for all figures]

Breed, G.A, Severns, P.M, Edwards, A.M. (2015).
Apparent power-law distributions in animal movements can arise from intraspecific interactions.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 12 (103): 20140927. [Abstract] [Journal website]
[Data supplement (statistical details plus data)]

Edwards, A.M., Freeman, M.P., Breed, G.A., and Jonsen, I.D. (2012)
Incorrect likelihood methods were used to infer scaling laws of marine predator search behaviour.
PLoS ONE,7(10): e45174.[Abstract] [.pdf freely available on journal website]
[Supporting Information (R source code for all results)]
Access the recommendation on F1000

Montes, R.M., Perry, R.I., Pakhomov, E.A., Edwards, A.M., and Boutillier, J.A. (2012)
Multifractal patterns in the daily catch time series of smooth pink shrimp (Pandalus jordani) from the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences,69:398-413.[Abstract] [.pdf file] (475Kb)

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).
Access the recommendation on F1000

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: An International Journal).
And according to the journal's [website] it continues to be among the most recently cited papers, based on citations over the last three years (at least as of 12th Jan 2015).


Stock assessments and technical reports

Canadian fisheries stock assessments undergo full scientific peer review. The rockfish assessments below were each reviewed by two or three formal reviewers plus participants of a review meeting lasting one to three days. The Pacific Hake assessment is reviewed at the annual Scientific Review Group 4-5 day meeting. Technical Reports are not subject to review.

Pacific Hake

Johnson, K.F., A.M. Edwards, A.M. Berger and C.J. Grandin (2021).
Status of the Pacific Hake (whiting) stock in U.S. and Canadian waters in 2021. Prepared by the Joint Technical Committee of the U.S. and Canada Pacific Hake/Whiting Agreement, National Marine Fisheries Service and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 269p. All authors contribute extensively so the order rotates annually.
Available here.

Grandin, C.J., K.F. Johnson, A.M. Edwards, and A.M. Berger. (2020).
Status of the Pacific Hake (whiting) stock in U.S. and Canadian waters in 2020. Prepared by the Joint Technical Committee of the U.S. and Canada Pacific Hake/Whiting Agreement, National Marine Fisheries Service and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 273p. All authors contribute extensively so the order rotates annually.
Available here.

Berger, A.M., A.M. Edwards, C.J. Grandin, and K.F. Johnson. (2019).
Status of the Pacific Hake (whiting) stock in U.S. and Canadian waters in 2019. Prepared by the Joint Technical Committee of the U.S. and Canada Pacific Hake/Whiting Agreement, National Marine Fisheries Service and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 249p. All authors contribute extensively so the order rotates annually. .pdf file

Edwards, A.M, I.G. Taylor, C.J. Grandin and A.M. Berger (2018).
Status of the Pacific Hake (whiting) stock in U.S. and Canadian waters in 2018. Prepared by the Joint Technical Committee of the U.S. and Canada Pacific Hake/Whiting Agreement, National Marine Fisheries Service and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 222p. Authors in no particular order. .pdf file

Berger, A.M., C.J. Grandin, I.G. Taylor, A.M. Edwards and S. Cox (2017).
Status of the Pacific Hake (whiting) stock in U.S. and Canadian waters in 2017. Prepared by the Joint Technical Committee of the U.S. and Canada Pacific Hake/Whiting Agreement, National Marine Fisheries Service and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 203p. Authors in no particular order. .pdf file

Grandin, C.J., A.C. Hicks, A.M. Berger, A.M. Edwards, N. Taylor, I.G. Taylor, and S. Cox. (2016).
Status of the Pacific Hake (whiting) stock in U.S. and Canadian waters in 2016. Prepared by the Joint Technical Committee of the U.S. and Canada Pacific Hake/Whiting Agreement, National Marine Fisheries Service and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. 165p. Authors in no particular order. .pdf file

Our collaborative GitHub repository of code for automatically building the document through R, knitr and latex.

Data synopsis

Anderson, S.C., Keppel, E.A., Edwards, A.M. (2019).
A reproducible data synopsis for over 100 species of British Columbia groundfish
DFO Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document, 2019/041. vii+321p. Available here. GitHub repository.

Pacific Ocean Perch

Haigh, R., Starr, P.J., Edwards, A.M., King, J.R., and Lecomte, J.-B. (2019).
Stock assessment for Pacific Ocean Perch (Sebastes alutus) in Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia in 2017.
DFO Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document, 2018/038. v+227p. Available here.

Edwards, A.M., Haigh, R. and Starr, P.J. (2014).
Pacific Ocean Perch (Sebastes alutus) stock assessment for the north and west coasts of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
DFO Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document 2013/092. vi + 126p. [.pdf file] (This is the full technical stock assessment).

Edwards, A.M., Haigh, R. and Starr, P.J. (2014).
Pacific Ocean Perch (Sebastes alutus) stock assessment for the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
DFO Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document 2013/093. vi + 135p. [.pdf file] (This is the full technical stock assessment).

DFO (2013).
Pacific Ocean Perch (Sebastes alutus) stock assessments for the west coast of Vancouver Island and the north and west coasts of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
DFO Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Scientific Advisory Report 2013/038 10p. [.pdf file] (This is the shorter less-technical summary arising from the review meeting).

Edwards, A.M., Starr, P.J. and Haigh, R. (2012).
Stock assessment for Pacific ocean perch (Sebastes alutus) in Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia.
DFO Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document 2011/111. viii +172p. [.pdf file] (This is the full technical stock assessment).

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 shorter less-technical summary arising from the review meeting - see here for further details about the review meeting).

Yellowmouth Rockfish along the Pacific Coast of Canada

Edwards, A.M., Haigh, R and Starr, P.J. (2012).
Stock assessment and recovery potential assessment for Yellowmouth Rockfish (Sebastes reedi) along the Pacific coast of Canada.
DFO Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document 2012/095. iv +188p. [.pdf file] (This is the full technical stock assessment).

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 shorter Science Advisory Report summarising the advice for management arising from the review meeting of the full stock assessment).

Research Document arising from a national DFO CSAS meeting

Krohn, M.M., Chaput, G., Duplisea, D.E., Duprey, N.M.T., Edwards, A.M., Healey, B.P., Howland, K.L., Lester, B., Morgan, M.J., and Tallman, R.F. (2019).
Guidelines for Providing Interim-Year Updates and Science Advice for Multi-year Assessments.
DFO Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Research Document, 2018/035. v+40p. Available here.

DFO (2016).
Guidelines for providing interim-year updates and science advice for multi-year assessments.
DFO Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Scientific Advisory Report 2016/020 10p. Available here. This is the shorter Science Advisory Report summarising the advice for management arising from the review meeting; the full Research Document above has full details.

Technical Reports (the first two arose from DFO Technical Expertise in Stock Assessment workshops that I organised

Edwards, A.M., Duplisea, D.E., Grinnell, M.H., Anderson, S.C., Grandin, C.J., Ricard, D., Keppel, E.A., Anderson, E.D., Baker, K.D., Benoît, H.P., Cleary, J.S., Connors, B.M., Desgagnés, M., English, P.A., Fishman, D.J., Freshwater, C., Hedges, K.J., Holt, C.A., Holt, K.R., Kronlund, A.R., Mariscak, A., Obradovich, S.G., Patten, B.A., Rogers, B., Rooper, C.N., Simpson, M.R., Surette, T.J., Tallman, R.F., Wheeland, L.J., Wor, C., and Zhu, X. (2018).
Proceedings of the Technical Expertise in Stock Assessment (TESA) national workshop on ‘Tools for transparent, traceable, and transferable assessments,’ 27–30 November 2018 in Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 3290: v+10p.
Available here.

Edwards, A.M., Haigh, R., Tallman, R., Swain, D.P., Carruthers, T.R., Cleary, J.S., Stenson, G. and Doniol-Valcroze, T. (2017).
Proceedings of the Technical Expertise in Stock Assessment (TESA) National Workshop on ‘Incorporating an ecosystem approach into single-species stock assessments’ 21-25 November 2016, Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 3213: vi+53p. Available here.

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]


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.

Students

James Robinson is a Ph.D. student in Julia Baum's lab at the Deparment of Biology, University of Victoria, working on aquatic size spectra. I was a member of his Ph.D. committee.

Eric Hertz is a Ph.D. student in Asit Mazumder's lab at the Deparment of Biology, University of Victoria, working on aquatic size spectra; we have collaborated on the modelling of isotopic ratios.

Holly Neate worked as a co-op student with Carrie Holt, Rowan Haigh, Debby Ianson and me during her undergraduate degree in biology and earth and ocean sciences from the University of Victoria, resulting in our ocean acidification paper (see above).

Stephanie Keightley worked as a co-op student with Carrie Holt and myself during her undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Victoria. She is currently working at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre.

Anisa Egeli worked with Rowan Haigh, Jon Schnute and myself as a summer student, during her computing degree at Vancouver Island University.

Sara-Jane Dunn worked with me as a summer undergraduate student at the British Antarctic Survey, while doing her mathematics degree. Sara went on to do a DPhil at the University of Oxford, and now works in the Biological Computation group at Microsoft Research.

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 thirty-five international scientific journals, including American Naturalist, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Deep-Sea Research II, Ecological Modelling, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Fisheries Oceanography, ICES Journal of Marine Science, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Geophysical Research -- Oceans, Journal of Marine Research, Journal of Marine Systems, Journal of Plankton Research, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Nature, Geophysical Research Letters, Ocean Dynamics, Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society Series B, PLoS One, PNAS, Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, Progress in Oceanography, Transacations of the American Fisheries Society.

Reviewied proposals for: NERC (Natural Environment Research Council, UK), NSF (National Science Foundation, USA), NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA).

Previously Chair of Groundfish Subcommittee of Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Centre for Science Advice (Pacific).

Ph.D. Committee member for Derek Tittensor, Dept. of Biology, Dalhousie University.

External examiner for:
Department of Biology, University of York, UK. MSc external examiner.
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria. MSc external examiner.
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia. Ph.D. Admittance to Candidacy exam, external examiner.

Professional Societies


Research Interests

Fisheries, stock assessments, size spectra, statistical ecology, 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.

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