I am currently a research scientist at the
Polar Science
Center, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington. I am partially
supported by the
Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in
Nuuk, Greenland. My
primary research interests lie in spatial modeling of movement and
spatially-explicit foraging ecology of top marine predators. I am interested in
how environmental features and habitat variables manifest themselves as
constraints on movement and behavior, and how these constraints differentially
impact demographics of sub-populations or metapopulations of marine species. My
research is focused on exploring these relationships using satellite and
archival telemetry, in combination with remotely-sensed satellite data and
quantitative spatial models in a Geographic Information System (GIS). My
research also links spatial environmental fluctuation to bioenergetic models and food webs in the marine ecosystem.
Much of my research is focused in the high Arctic, where both short food
chains and very limited and specific production periods strongly shape the
behavior of top predators.