usgs_staff_profile:
meta: status_code: 200 timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:27:55.767802' url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/andy-royle profile: abstracts: [] affiliations: [] education: - PhD in Statistics (1996) from North Carolina State University - BS in Fisheries and Wildlife (1990) from Michigan State University email: aroyle@usgs.gov expertise_terms: - statistical analysis - monitoring and sampling design - capture-recapture - turtle ecology honors: [] intro_statements: - Andy Royle is a Research Statistician at the Eastern Ecological Science Center in Laurel, MD. name: Andy Royle, Ph.D. name_qualifier: null orcid: 0000-0003-3135-2167 organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eesc organization_name: Eastern Ecological Science Center personal_statement: "Andy Royle is a Senior Scientist at USGS Eastern Ecological\ \ Science Center (Patuxent). At EESC, he is engaged in the development of statistical\ \ methods and analytic tools for animal demographic modeling, statistical inference\ \ and sampling wildlife populations and communities. His current research is\ \ focused on hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence, and the\ \ development of spatial capture-recapture methods and applications. He has\ \ authored or coauthored 6 books on quantitative analysis in ecology including\ \ the recent book Applied Hierarchical Models Vols. 1 and 2 (2016 and 2021,\ \ with Marc K\xE9ry)." professional_experience: - Statistician (1998-2004) for the U.S. FWS in the Migratory Bird Management Office where he worked primarily on waterfowl surveys and monitoring projects - visiting scientist in the Geophysical Statistics Project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO. title: Research Statistician