Bio

I use my education and experience in both software engineering and statistics to develop software to study fisheries and wildlife populations. Projects that I am currently working on include:

• Developing software to allow managers to estimate animal abundance based on hunting data.
• Creating software to predict run-timing of salmon populations on the Columbia Basin river system.

Projects

• Creating the computational engine of the software programs ATLAS and SURPH to estimate survival parameters of salmonid populations based on radio-tag data and PIT-tag data.
• Creating the computational engine of program SURPH to estimate survival using PIT-tag data.
• Creation of the program USER that allows the user to develop their own statistical models for estimating survival and movement parameters of wildlife and fish populations.

I have also performed data analysis of PIT-tag, acoustic tag, and radio-tag fisheries data.

Software programs can be downloaded from Parameter Estimation, Tools & Models.

Education

• MS in Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management, University of Washington
• BA in Computer Science, Messiah College, Grantham, PA.

Contact Info

Email: jlady@uw.edu