Want to Learn About Sea Cucumbers?
/I’m delighted to report that my former MSc student Nathan Hebert is now published. @Nathan it was a great pleasure working with you and I hope we have many more opportunities to collaborate.
Boston Marathon 2024
/26.2 miles is a long way even when you ‘go it together’ :-)
A Visit to the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
/As I begin counting down the days until summer finally arrives in Nova Scotia I find myself reflecting on the wonderful experiences I had in the summer of 2023. One of the highlights was certainly my visit to Cambridge to speak and participate in the Summer School on Mathematics of Movement.
It was wonderful to re-connect with some researchers I had met before including Ran Nathan as well as meet many new ones!
in front of the iNI
DINNER AT COrpus christi college cambridge
BRIN Mathematics Research Center (Post snowstorm!)
/After a failed start due to the longest snowstorm in recent memory (February 2-4, 2024) I made it to the University of Maryland to participate in a workshop on ‘Applied Stochastic Processes for Encounter Problems’ organized by Bill Fagan and Ricardo Martinez-Garcia.
It was a wonderful week that included some insightful discussions with Ruth Baker, Justin Calabrese, Chris Fleming, Sarah Davidson and Rebcca Tyson among others. I enjoyed reconnecting with my fellow Canuck Mark Lewis!
A quick visit to Washington DC capped off the week with a wonderful walk through the National Portrait Gallery.
A Tour of the Belle Carnell (September 2023)
/Much gratitude to NSERC, Clearwater Seafoods and Fisheries and Oceans Canada for funding our Alliance Grant on ‘Advancing spatio-temporal stock assessment models to integrate high-resolution seafloor mapping data for more sustainable, ecosystem-based, harvest strategies for Canadian shellfish’.
Our tour of the Belle Carnell has been one of this project highlights to date. My favorite part was getting to meet and speak with the incredible team on board.
Introducing Dr. Ethan Lawler
/Congratulations Ethan. It was a great pleasure to watch you walk across the stage today.
A selfie of course
A beautiful fall day on DAL campus
All things CKMR
/What an amazing week. We learned so much from Mark Bravington, and have new art for our offices! Thank you Mark!!
Congratulations Jiaxin and Raphael!
/Very proud to announce that Jiaxin Luo and Raphael McDonald successfully completed their MSc programs despite the various challenges imposed by COVID. So proud of you both!
Congratulations Kim!
/Very proud to announce that Kim Whoriskey just successfully defended her PhD!
Some exciting new publications in 2019
/“Conducting and interpreting fish telemetry studies: Considerations for researchers and resource managers“ now appears in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.
“The conditionally autoregressive hidden Markov model (CarHMM): Inferring behavioural states from animal tracking data exhibiting conditional autocorrelation“ has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Agricutural, Biological and Environmental Statistics.
Year 2 Workshop of CANSSI CRT -- Towards Sustainable Fisheries: SSAMs for Complex Fisheries and Biological Data
/CANSSI CRT (2018-2021) — Towards Sustainable Fisheries: State Space Assessment Models for Complex Fisheries and Biological Data— is a collaborative research team (CRT) project funded by the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) that I lead. This year, we were very grateful to the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICEA) for hosting our Year-2 Workshop from April 14 to 16, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Gordon Research Conference 2019: Movement Ecology of Animals
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From March 3 to 8, 2019, Animal Movement as a Link Between Ecology, Evolution and Behavior was held at Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco in Lucca (Barga), Italy. I had the pleasure of attending the conference and gave an invited talk on "Statistical Tools for Validating Animal Movement Models".