The role of oceanographic scales in shaping highly mobile marine predator distributions.

Marine animals live in a dynamic environment, where a wide range of drivers and processes impact their movements and distributions. These processes occur over multiple spatio-temporal scales, from fine scale phytoplankton blooms and zooplankton patches to larger scale climatic events such as El Niño or climate change. In a dynamic ocean, the predictability of ocean features and processes vary across multiple scales.

Using pseudo-absence models to test for environmental selection in marine movement ecology: the importance of sample size and selection strength.

Background: Understanding the selection of environmental conditions by animals requires knowledge of where they are, but also of where they could have been. Presence data can be accurately estimated by direct sampling, sightings, or through electronic tag deployments. However, absence data are harder to determine because absences are challenging to measure in an uncontrolled setting.

A satellite-based mobile warning system to reduce interactions with an endangered species.

Earth-observing satellites are a major research tool for spatially explicit ecosystem nowcasting and forecasting. However, there are practical challenges when integrating satellite data into usable real-time products for stakeholders. The need of forecast immediacy and accuracy means that forecast systems must account for missing data and data latency while delivering a timely, accurate, and actionable product to stakeholders.