Collaborate

Ocean forecasting is a collaborative venture. We engage with forecast users, data providers, algorithm developers, and other groups to build a community around each forecasting project.

We are always open to new forecasting projects or ideas, and we encourage you to reach out. Our team can be reached at nrecord@bigelow.org

Current Contributors

Nick Record is a computational oceanographer and founding director of the Tandy Center for Ocean Forecasting. Bio

Ben Tupper supports computational work at the Tandy Center by providing software tools for data access and analysis as well as training.

Camille Ross is a UMaine PhD student in Oceanography interested in using computational approaches to model the relationship between changing climate conditions and past, present, and future North Atlantic right whale habitat LinkedIn

Johnathan Evanilla is developing an early warning system for fishery closure-level Paralytic Shellfish Poison toxicity levels along coastal Maine to assist shellfish growers and managers with decision making.

Kyle Oliveira works on evaluating eDNA as a method of detection for white sharks in the Gulf of Maine; then, using these potential detections, along with others from more traditional and crowd sourced methods, he develops spatial models and forecasts to inform stakeholders on ideal conditions where white sharks may be.

Rene Francolini combines field work, lab work, and computational modeling to study how the kelp forests of the Gulf of Maine are responding to our changing climate and project what our coastline will look like in the future. Github

Omi Johnson is a co-op student from Northeastern University, working on tools to model species distributions in year-2050 climate conditions. LinkedIn

Kenny Douyon is using data science and models to predict new locations where harmful algal species might show up as the environment changes.

Nicole Hellessey is a postdoctoral research scientist working on developing an individual-based model of Antarctic krill swimming behaviour based on aquarium observations under a variety of environmental conditions to understand the environmental drivers of krill swarm structure and function.

Past Contributors

Turner Johnson works on ocean physics, modeling, and engineering on a variety of projects. LinkedIn

Jace Innis is a marine science graduate working on leveraging big data and machine learning in order to better understand and predict phytoplankton's role in the marine ecosystem.

Varshitha Uppula works on software application development using NodeJS, vue, and JavaScript to create web tools to visualize environmental DNA data. Linkedin, Github

Marlon Grandy
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