Cecilia O'Leary
Question
In less than 200 words, what main research questions are you working on? Please make sure to first include a brief context and background to your research, articulate your question(s) and conclude with why you think it’s important to study the them (i.e., the potential broader impacts).
Answer
Our climate is changing and we need to understand how that will affect our planet. I’m a quantitative ecologist, which means that I count animals for a living and then try and determine why there are that many. For my PhD work, I’ve focused on determining if and how climate is influencing the numbers of fish in the ocean and how to statistically determine that. I also work on how to incorporate the influence of climate on fish into management indices and if we should. Finally, I work on how various assumptions in statistical models influence the solutions to our questions. Twitter Page | My Website