Item talk:Q49000

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