mizer course - Introduce yourself

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mizer course - Introduce yourself

https://mizer.course.nov22.sizespectrum.org/prepare/introduce-yourself.html

[gustavdelius]

I am Gustav Delius. I am an applied mathematician at the University of York. I have been interested in the mathematical side of size-spectrum modelling since 2008. On the more practical side, I took part in the MINOUW EU project that was concerned with the minimisation of bycatch and am now leading the modelling in the Pyramids of Life project working towards bringing fishing more in line with the productivity of the ecosystem.

Since I took over the development of mizer in 2014 I have worked to develop easier ways to build and use mizer models and I am looking forward to explaining the new approaches in this course.

I am particularly looking forward to the online meetings. Given that fisheries science is not my original background, I believe that I will learn as much from you as you will learn from me. What I will learn I will invest back into the further development of mizer.

[MauroMardones]

Hi, I'm Mauricio Mardones, a marine biologist with an emphasis on fisheries science (stock assessment mainly) with 10 years of experience. Currently works at IFOP as researcher in the Department of Stock Assessment and also pursuing a PhD (second year) in Antarctic and Subantarctic Sciences at the University of Magallanes, Chile. My research project is about krill (Euphausia superba) fishery, management and climatic context.

My expertise in ecosystem models has been based on single-species models, and although I have worked with ecosystem models (such as EwE), I would like to learn this approach and try to apply it to any of the fisheries that I study, whether Chilean or the Southern Ocean.

I'm sure that I will learn a lot in this course and I also hope to share and know about other experiences.

See you soon!

[ignasiarranz]

Hello! I'm Ignasi Arranz, a postdoctoral researcher interested in freshwater ecology. Part of my research focuses on the empirical size spectrum in freshwater fish and I tried to understand which are the main drivers shaping the size spectrum over large spatial and temporal scales. I would like to learn mizer and see how it can apply in freshwater ecosystems under global environmental changes.

Looking forward to participating in this course!

Ignasi

[zeynepersoy]

Hi! I am Zeynep Ersoy. I'm a freshwater ecologist, focusing on changes in freshwater food webs across environmental, anthropogenic and biogeographical gradients. Currently I am postdoctoral researcher based in University of Barcelona.

So far, I have worked on empirical size spectrum in freshwater phytoplankton, zooplankton and macroinvertebrate communities mostly using mesocosm experiments. I have not worked with fish size spectrum, but I would like to learn about modelling and simulations using mizer and would like to apply this to my research questions in the future.

See you next week!

[jennybigman]

Hi! My name is Jennifer Bigman and I am an NSF Postdoc at NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center. I am currently working on understanding how temperature affects size-at-age of commercially important fish stocks, and how this relationship can be used to predict how fisheries productivity will change in the future with warming.

I am fairly new to size spectra modeling, but am familiar with the idea and theory behind it. I am interested in using size spectra theory to bridge theory and fisheries science.

Looking forward to participating in this course!

[niafall]

Hi All - my name is Niall, and I'm a marine ecologist working at Marine Scotland Science. My role at MSS is as a fish/shellfish population modeller, and data analyst, where the majority of my time is spent implementing stock assessments and providing scientific advice for exploited populations in Scottish waters. We use a variety of modelling techniques/environments, such as SAM, SPiCT, bespoke age-structured simulation models, etc.

I have used gadget quite a bit, in single- and multi-species contexts, as both a size-based and size-age-based model.

I am interested in this course to broaden my understanding of modelling approaches! I'll do my best to keep up as work is busy right now too. 🙃

[AdhamEbrashi]

Hi, I am Adham El Ebrashi, I am a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport. I am a Master student in Sustainable Fisheries Management working mainly on Stock assessment.

Looking forward to broaden my knowledge and understanding of the modelling approaches, I am new to size spectra modeling but I'll do my best to keep consistent with the work!

[hmorzaria]

Hi, my name is Hem Nalini Morzaria-Luna and I am a researcher with the non-profit Long Live the Kings and a visiting scientist at the NOAA-Northwest Fisheries Science Center. I work applying end-to-end ecosystem models built in the Atlantis framework to answer questions related to management and anthropogenic impacts.
I want to learn size spectra modeling to carry out model comparisons.

[Jpomz]

Hi everyone,
My name is Justin Pomeranz. I am an aquatic entomologist and stream ecologist and use individual size distributions (i.e., size spectra) to assess anthropogenic impacts to stream communities. In addition, I've been working to understand how natural environmental gradients (e.g., temperature, productivity) influence the natural variation of community size spectra relationships.
I've been wanting to play around with Mizer for quite some time now and am looking forward to this course!

[HiromiB]

Kia ora everyone! I'm Hiromi Beran, a marine biology MSc student at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. My thesis research will investigate the potential of mesophotic reefs to function as thermal refuges for NZ coastal fish species during marine heatwaves. As part of this I'm planning to build a mizer model to run marine heatwave simulations (with the therMizer add-on) and see what difference deep reef presence makes in terms of population productivity during periods of thermal stress, and so I'm very much looking forward to working through this course.

[odhiambogef]

I am Geoffrey Odhiambo, Marine Biology scientist and Onboard Fisheries Observer. I have been working with length based indicators of individual species in a poor data fisheries. I have used a lot of shinyapps for the analysis in stock assessment. I am here to learn how to model with therMizer and gain more modelling knowledge from the experts around.

[jswesner]

Hi - I'm Jeff Wesner, an Associate Professor at the University of South Dakota. I'm a freshwater ecologist currently studying size spectra in North American streams (in collaboration with a few others in this course). I have no experience with Mizer. Looking forward to learning more!