My name is Philip T. Patton (Phil, @philpatton). Iʻm a graduate research assistant with at the Marine Mammal Research Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Also, I'm a NOAA QUEST Fellow, meaning that also work with the Cetacean Research Program at the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center.
Currently, I research ways to improve population assessments of toothed whales that live in the Main Hawaiian Islands. This includes automating photo-identification of these animals, understanding how these automated tools interact with capture-recapture models, and estimating demographic parameters using cutting edge methods in capture recapture.
I did my master's research with Krishna Pacifici at North Carolina State University, where I studied ways to improve estimates of species distribution, aka where we find species, particularly when species interact and when the data contains sampling errors. The cowbird repository shows one way to analyze these data when species interact.
Please feel free to email me, [email protected], if you would like to get in touch.
Thanks for looking!