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After obtaining a BA in Biology from Occidental (a liberal arts college in Los Angeles CA, USA), I pursued graduate study at the University of Sydney in Australia, where I did a Graduate Diploma in Zoology (first class honours) and a PhD in Marine Ecology with Professor Tony Underwood (achieving the Jabez-King-Heydon prize for the most meritorious PhD thesis), followed by a Masters in Mathematical Statistics (with merit) with Professor John Robinson. After a post-doctoral fellowship with the Institute of Marine Ecology in Sydney, I then took up an academic position as Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Auckland in 1999. I came to Massey University to take up a Professorial Chair in Statistics at the Albany campus in 2009. I joined the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study (NZIAS) in 2011.
Roles and Responsibilities
Deputy Head of Institute, INMS
Head of Statistics, INMS
Co-director of the Coastal-Marine Research Group (C-MRG)
I am an ecological statistician. My work spans several disciplines, from basic biology and ecology through to mathematical and applied statistics. My core research is in community ecology, biodiversity, multivariate analysis, experimental design and resampling methods. My focus is to develop novel statistical methods for the analysis of ecological communities, including appropriate sampling algorithms and models for making valid statistical inferences in these high-dimensional multi-factorial systems.
I am an ecological statistician. My work spans several disciplines, from basic biology and ecology through to mathematical and applied statistics. My core research is in the areas of community ecology, biodiversity, multivariate analysis, experimental design and resampling methods. My focus is to develop novel multivariate statistical methods for the analysis of ecological communities, including appropriate underlying sampling algorithms and models for making valid statistical inferences in these high-dimensional multi-factorial systems.
Resource Development and Management
Field of research codes
Applied Statistics (010401):
Biological Sciences (060000):
Community Ecology (060202):
Ecology (060200):
Mathematical Sciences (010000):
Statistics (010400)
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| Not Specified | 0 | 1 |
| Project Leader | 3 | 15 |
Project Title: Not too hot, not too cold, just right: New models of species' responses to their environment
Date Range: 2020 - 2023
Funding Body: Royal Society of New Zealand
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Project Title: Synergising ecology and evolution: dicovering patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity of New Zealand's name marine fishes versus depth
Date Range: 2016 - 2019
Funding Body: Royal Society of New Zealand
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Project Title: New robust solutions to the multivariate Behrens-Fisher problem
Date Range: 2011 - 2015
Funding Body: Marsden Fund - Full
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| Main Supervisor | 0 | 2 |
| Co-supervisor | 1 | 2 |
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