Andy Cooper is a quantitative ecologist specializing in the application of statistical and mathematical tools to questions rooted in marine ecology and resource management. His research focuses on such topics as population dynamics and stock assessment, decision-making under uncertainty, historical ecology, biodiversity, animal movement, and resource selection. Dr. Cooper is currently working on projects examining: (1) the factors affecting fishing location selection by cod fishermen from Maine, USA, during the 1860s; (2) the temporal patterns in fisheries landings from the late 19th century in the Gulf of Maine and relating these patterns to potential ecological processes; (3) the impact of uncertainty in stock structure on the management of herring in the western Atlantic; and (4) the spatial distribution of fish biodiversity in the Gulf of Maine.

Dr. Cooper has worked extensively with federal and regional fisheries management agencies as well as marine conservation groups in the USA, and is looking forward to working with REM students and faculty, DFO, fishermen, and others to tackle questions focusing on the North Pacific marine ecosystem. Some of Andy's publications include:

Bednarek, A., A.B. Cooper, K.A. Cresswell, M. Mangel, W.H. Satterthwaite, C. Simpfendorfer, and J.R. Wiedenmann. 2011. The certainty of uncertainty in marine conservation and what to do about it. Bulletin of Marine Science 87(2):177-195.

Contosta, A.R., S.D. Frey, and A.B. Cooper. 2011. Seasonal dynamics of soil respiration and N mineralization in chronically warmed and fertilized soils. Ecosphere 2(3): 1-21.

Coster, S.S., A.I. Kovach, P.J. Pekins, A.B. Cooper, and A. Timmins. 2011. Genetic mark-recapture population estimation in black bears and issues of scale. Journal of Wildlife Management doi: 10.1002/jwmg.143.

Griffin, B.J., K.E. Kohfeld, A.B. Cooper, and G. Boenisch. 2010. The importance of location for describing typical and extreme wind speed behavior: A Case Study from the Pacific Northwest, North America. Geophysical Research Letters 37, L22804, doi:10.1029/2010GL045052.

Tutsch, M., W. Haider, B. Beardmore, K. Lertzman, A.B. Cooper, and R. Walker. 2010. Estimating the consequences of wildfire for wildfire risk assessment. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40(11):2104-2114.

Semeniuk, C.A.D., W. Haider, A. Cooper, and K.D. Rothley. 2010. A linked model of animal ecology and human behavior for the management of wildlife tourism. Ecological Modelling 221:2699-2713.

Alexander, K.E., W.B. Leavenworth, J. Cournane, A.B. Cooper, S. Claesson, S. Brennan, G. Smith, L. Rains, K. Magness, R. Dunn, T.K. Law, R. Gee, W.J. Bolster, and A.A. Rosenberg. 2009. Gulf of Maine cod in 1861: historical analysis of fishery logbooks, with ecosystem implications. Fish and Fisheries 10(4): 428-449.

Grizzle, R.E., L.G. Ward, L.A. Mayer, M.A. Malik, A.B. Cooper, H.A. Abeels, J.K. Greene, M.A. Brodeur, and A.A. Rosenberg. 2009. Effects of a large fishing closure on benthic communities in the western Gulf of Maine, USA: recovery from effects of gillnets and otter trawls. Fishery Bulletin 107:308-317.

Veysey, J.S., K.J. Babbitt, A. Cooper.. 2009. An experimental assessment of buffer width: Implications for salamander migratory behavior. Biological Conservation 142:2227-2239.

Byers, J.E., A.M.H. Blakeslee, E. Linder, A.B. Cooper, and T.J. Maguire. 2008. Controls of spatial variation in the abundance of marine trematode parasites. Ecology 89(2): 439’Äì451.

McClenachan, L.. and A.B. Cooper. 2008. Extinction rate, historical population structure and ecological role of the Caribbean monk seal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275:1351-1358.

Poulsen, R.T., Cooper, A.B., Holm, A.B. and MacKenzie, B.R. 2008. Beware the misapplication of results: Response to Cardinale and SvedˆÉ¬§ng (2007). Fisheries Research, 89(3):307-308.

Rittenhouse, C.D., J.J. Millspaugh, A.B. Cooper, M.W. Hubbard, S.L. Sheriff, and R.A. Gitzen. 2008. Modeling resource selection using polytomous logistic regression and kernel density estimates. Journal of Environmental and Ecological Statistics 15:39’Äì47.

Cooper, A.B. and T.J. Miller. 2007. Bayesian statistics and the estimation of nest survival rates. Studies in Avian Biology 34:136-144.

Cooper, A.B., N. Pettorelli, and S.M. Durant. 2007 Large carnivore menus: factors affecting hunting decisions by cheetahs in the Serengeti. Animal Behavior 73:651-659.

Goldstein, J., S. Heppell, A. Cooper, S. Brault and M. Lutcavage. 2007. Variability in the reproductive status and body condition of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Gulf of Maine, 2000-2002. Journal of Marine Biology, doi:10.1007/s00227-007-0638-8.

Poulsen, R.T., Cooper, A.B., Holm, A.B. and MacKenzie, B.R. 2007. An abundance estimate of ling (Molva molva) and cod (Gadus morhua) in the Skagerrak and the northeastern North Sea, 1872. Fisheries Research, doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2007.07.002.

Golet, W.J., D.A. Scopel, A.B. Cooper, and W.H. Watson. 2006. Daily patterns of locomotion expressed by American lobsters (Homarus americanus) in their natural habitat. Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(4):610-619.

Sharma, R., A.B. Cooper, and R. Hilborn. 2005 A quantitative framework for the analysis of habitat and hatchery practices on Pacific salmon. Ecological Modelling 183:231-250.

Rosenberg, A.A., W.J. Bolster, K.E. Alexander, W.B. Leavenworth, A.B. Cooper, and M.G. McKenzie. 2005. The history of ocean resources: Modeling cod biomass using historical records. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3(2):78-84.

Cooper, A.B., A.A. Rosenberg, G. Stefansson, and M. Mangel. 2004. Examining the importance of consistency in multi-vessel trawl survey design based on the U.S. west coast groundfish bottom trawl survey. Fisheries Research 70:239-250.

Cooper, A.B., R. Hilborn, and J.W. Unsworth. 2003. An approach for population assessment in the absence of abundance indices. Ecological Applications 13(3): 814-818.

Cooper, A.B. and J.J. Millspaugh. 2001. Accounting for variation in resource availability and animal behavior in resource selection studies. In J.J. Millspaugh and J.M. Marzluff (eds.). Radio Tracking and Animal Populations. Academic Press. San Diego, California, USA.

Cooper, A.B. and J.J. Millspaugh. 1999. The application of discrete choice models to wildlife resource selection studies. Ecology 80: 566-575.

Cooper, A.B. and M.S. Mangel. 1999. The dangers of undetected metapopulation structure for the conservation of salmonids. Fishery Bulletin 97:213-226.

Cooper, A.B. 2006. A Guide to Fisheries Stock Assessment: From data to recommendations. A peer-reviewed extension book published by New Hampshire Sea Grant, Durham, NH. 44 pgs.