Environmental Time Series in Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Models

John Brandon, NMFS/Sea Grant Graduate Fellowship Program in Population Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics, and Andre Punt, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington

E/I-10

The current software for the management of marine mammals is custom-built and its application requires an understanding of underlying mathematics and the basics of computer coding. This project will develop user-friendly software to synthesize information related to environmental variables and population processes that pertain to marine mammals in the arctic and subpolar oceans.