Mark Maunder

Working for the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission Mark is responsible for the stock assessment of yellowfin and skipjack tuna. He has also been responsible for the stock assessment of bigeye tuna and involved in the assessment of dolphins, albatross, albacore, bluefin, swordfish and striped marlin.

Mark is one of the three founding members and president of the AD Model Builder Foundation, which was the driving fource for the public release of AD Model Builder.

In collaboration with George Watters, Mark developed the A-SCALA stock assessment model that was used to assess tunas in the EPO for ten years by the IATTC. Mark was also a main developer and lead programmer for the general Bayesian stock assessment model Coleraine. Mark has taught a course in ecological modeling at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and short courses on stock assessment, AD Model Builder, and ecological modeling. Marks main research interests are in the development of methods for fisheries stock assessment and ecological modeling.

According to Web Of Science, Google Scholar and SCOPUS, Mark's paper with Andre Punt "Standardizing Catch and Effort Data: A Review of Recent Approaches" (Fisheries Research 70(2-3): 141-159) is the most cited paper of any paper published in the Journal Fisheries Research.

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Mark's Fall workshop series on stock assessment methodology