15:00 - 16:00
Zoom ID: 978 6853 5544
Nicola Walker
Lectures, talks and seminars
MESS
Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, School of
Jesus Martinez-Garcia jesus.martinez-garcia@essex.ac.uk
These Departmental Seminars are for everyone in Maths. We encourage anyone interested in the subject in general, or in the particular subject of the seminar, to come along. It's a great opportunity to meet people in the Maths Department and join in with our community.
Scientific advice on the management of fish stocks is often informed by mathematical assessment models that fit to information from catches, research surveys and life history. North Sea cod is a high-profile and commercially important stock with a long history of highs and lows. In particular, the latest assessment estimates that the stock is below safe biological limits, which comes just two years after the fishery was certified sustainable.
Using North Sea cod as a case study, Dr Walker will present the state-space assessment model (SAM) and detail the process of turning model outputs into scientific advice for fisheries management. She will discuss diagnostics for assessing the quality of input data and model fits and highlight some of the problems facing the assessment of this stock.
Nicola Walker (PhD Student), CEFAS.
If not a member of the Dept. Mathematical Science at the University of Essex, you can register your interest in attending the seminar and request the Zoom’s meeting password by emailing Dr Jesus Martinez-Garcia