Hi! I’m Andy. I am a research scientist and analyst (with IBSS) in support of NOAA Fisheries. As a proponent of open science principles I strive to show by example the importance of reproducible workflows, transparency in methodologies, and that collaboration is a necessity for advancing scientific and policy based work. This philosophy is applied to all of my work.

My work and research

As a team member of the Ecosystem Dynamics and Assessment Branch we are interested in detecting and evaluating changes in the structure of marine communities at the ecosystem level. These changes can be caused by many potential factors including climate, oceanographic, biological, and human related activities. We aim to synthesize findings across many indicators in time and space then report these findings to managers and the scientific community.

My current research interests evolve around the idea of Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM).

• Evaluating the resilience of ecosystems to overfishing using end-to-end ecosystem models like Atlantis
• Evaluating the impact of changes in fishing effort for defined “communities at sea” based on selected climate scenarios.
• Evaluating different harvest control rule strategies (and the trade offs encountered) to achieve stability in a suite ecosystem metrics: revenue, population levels, diversity etc.
• Developing statistical tests for short term trend detection
• Developing methodology to detect a change over time in the length-weight relationship of commercially important species.
• Developing tools to aid in the wrangling and standardizing of data used to inform all projects
• Developing automated workflows to streamline tasks that don’t require oversight
• Containerizing workflows for portability to the cloud and other offsite servers

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