John Brandon Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

Statistical survey design; power analysis; Bayesian inference; population dynamics modeling; and even a little bit of GIS.

San Francisco Bay Area

I work with biologists and lawyers for the Makah Tribe. In this role, I have provided written and oral testimony in federal proceedings as a scientific expert witness on applied mathematical models for population dynamics, and computer simulation for management strategy evaluation.

San Francisco Bay Area

Developed a tier system for management strategy evaluation (MSE) of alternative approaches for calculating a Potential Biological Removal limit (PBR) on human caused mortality of marine mammals. Tiers were defined in terms of data availability, with one tier representing the current approach based on a single abundance estimate. The availability and use of.

Invited Participants to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission do not sit on national delegations, but travel, and co-author the text of the SC's reports, at the behest of the commission. I serve as a member of the working group on aboriginal whaling. This group includes Applied Mathematicians, Quantitative Ecologists, Biologists.

San Francisco Bay Area

Program lead for the Beaufort Sea aerial survey team. Designed our survey transect placement based on modeling the probability of sighting bowhead whales around Shell's exploratory drilling operation. During the process of designing the survey, I developed simulation code to solve for the spatial allocation of survey effort that would maximize the.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked with a team applying mark-recapture models to estimate abundance of the Endangered Cook Inlet stock of beluga whales. Also, led aerial survey teams in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas off Alaska, and coordinated our efforts with senior scientists and operational management under Shell Inc.'s multi-billion dollar operations program. Trained Alaska.

Seattle, WA

Much of my dissertation research was motivated by a risk assessment of aboriginal whaling quota systems, given global climate model forecast data. The methods involved developing C++ simulation code to model natural resource dynamics and to evaluate the ability of feedback systems in the aboriginal quota limit algorithms to respond appropriately to climate.

La Jolla, CA And Seattle, WA

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Fisheries Stock Assessment And Management Strategy Evaluation

Activities and Societies: SeaGrant Fellowship in Population Dynamics and Economics.Integrating multiple sources of information in Bayesian.

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology, Ecology, Behavior And Evolution

Activities and Societies: National Merit Scholarship. Provost's Honors. Captain UCSD men's soccer team.Minored in Anthropology and Earth.