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National Marine Mammal Laboratory |
Current Activities
Paul Conn is a statistician with NMML’s Polar Ecology Program. His primary research focus is in developing and applying statistical and mathematical models to analyze the ecology and demography of animal populations. These efforts include modeling aerial survey counts, analyzing tagging data, and fitting integrated population models. Increasingly, Paul’s research necessitates using Bayesian, hierarchical models to conduct inference on population dynamics across time and/or space. His current assignments include modeling haulout probabilities of ice associated seals and producing population estimates for ice seals in the Bering Sea.
Background
Before joining NMML, Paul was a research statistician at the NOAA lab in Beaufort, NC, where he focused research on animal population dynamics and fisheries stock assessment. He has also worked as a postdoctoral researcher on avian disease dynamics at Cornell University and as a research associate at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Grinnell College, a Master’s in Biomathematics from N.C. State University, and a PhD in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University.
