Spring semesters of odd-numbered years (last taught Spring 2009)
Fishery management relies on a quantitative understanding of population dynamics and the effects of exploitation on marine resources. This course will focus on developing students’ quantitative and modeling skills, including understanding of population dynamics and responses of populations to exploitation and management actions. The course will cover population models of production, mortality, stock and recruitment, age and growth, and harvesting, and methods for using these models to provide management advice. Particular attention will be paid to assumptions and data requirements of models. Additionally, the course has a component of statistical model fitting and simulation. IVN based.
Fisheries Science and Management, MEES 682, Co-taught with Dave Secor
Fall semesters of odd-numbered years (last taught Fall 2008)
The study of exploited, or potentially exploitable, populations of living aquatic resources, including fish and other organisms. It is applied ecology and, as such, seeks knowledge of how biological interactions and environmental factors influence populations in aquatic ecosystems. IVN based.
I also developed an on-line course on maximum likelihood estimation for natural resources at Michigan State University and occassionally teach workshops on topics including statistical estimation methods, programming, and stock assessment techniques.
