* Master 2 in fisheries and aquatic sciences, Ecole National Supérieure d’Agronomie de Rennes (ENSAR), Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, France
* PhD in fisheries sciences, Centre de Recherche Halieutique Méditerranéenne et Tropicale (CRH), Sète, France
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Biography
Overview
I am a fisheries scientist based at NIWA Wellington.
My area of expertise is spatial and spatio-temporal modelling. I use a variety of modelling tools for my work, including primarily the vector autoregressive spatio-temporal (VAST) modelling platform and software packages created at NIWA such as CASAL, Casal2 and the Spatial Population Model (SPM). My projects support stock, habitat, climate-vulnerability, ecosystem and risk assessments and various resource management efforts.
Background
My background is in fisheries science. After completing my Masters at the Ecole National Supérieure d’Agronomie de Rennes (ENSAR; Agrocampus Ouest) in France, I did my Ph.D. at the Centre de Recherche Halieutique Méditerranéenne et Tropicale (CRH), in Sète, also in France.
Following this, I spent eight years in the USA at the University of Miami and then at the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences as a postdoctoral research associate, then an Assistant Scientist, then an Acting Instructor. My research activities in the USA have mainly involved ecosystem modelling, species distribution modelling, and investigations with the VAST modelling platform.
I started work at NIWA Wellington, in the Population Modelling group, in September 2020.