About Me

I am a second year graduate student in the Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management (QERM) program at UW. I came into this program hoping to learn a robust repository of quantitative tools to do some meaningful mathematics on marine populations. Prior to graduate school, I double majored in applied mathematics and statistics at UC Davis. During that time, I also worked under a mathematical ecologist in Brett Melbourne, an R developer in Duncan Temple Lang and a biomath research program in CLIMB.

Currently, I am also a member of the Marine Population Assessment and Management Group. My Master's advisor is Andre Punt. My thesis is analyzing stock recruitment curves at low population sizes of Pacific coast groundfishes using simulation testing of several Bayesian (and non-Bayesian) meta-analysis methods. This project is funded by NOAA. I also have a side project ongoing with Jim Anderson, studying genetic and environmental effects of home migration timing of Chinook salmon in the Columbia river.

- Motoki Wu