Appendix B Committee Biographies
Terrance J. Quinn II (chairman) earned his Ph.D. in biomathematics from the University of Washington in 1980. Dr. Quinn has been an associate professor at the University of Alaska since 1985. He is a member of the Scientific and Statistical Committee of the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council and has recently served as consultant to the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the Makah Indian Tribe in Neah Bay, Washington. Dr. Quinn also served on the Ocean Studies Board (OSB) Committee on Fisheries and Committee to Review Atlantic Bluefin Tuna; he co-chaired the Committee on Fish Stock Assessments and was appointed to the OSB in 1995. His research interests are in the areas of fish population dynamics and management and applied statistics and biometrics.
Wyatt Anderson earned his Ph.D. from Rockefeller University in 1967. He has been a Distinguished Professor of Genetics at the University of Georgia since 1988. Dr. Anderson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His research interests include molecular evolution, genetics of natural and experimental populations, theoretical population genetics, scientific literacy, and scientific education.
Wayne M. Getz earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa in 1976. He currently is professor of environmental sciences and biomathematician in the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of California, Berkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1979. Dr. Getz's research interests include population modeling, resource management, and self-organizing systems.
Ray Hilborn earned his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of British Columbia in 1974. Dr. Hilborn is professor at the School of Fisheries of the University of Washington. His main areas of research are resource management, population dynamics, systems analysis, and fisheries.
Cynthia Jones earned her Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island in 1984. She is an associate professor in the Department of Biology at Old Dominion University. Dr. Jones' research focuses on fisheries and population ecology.
Jean-Jacques Maguire earned his M.Sc. in biology from Laval University in 1984. He worked for the Canadian Department of Fish and Oceans from 1977 to 1996. Mr. Maguire is now a private consultant in fisheries science and management and is the chairman of the Advisory Committee on Fisheries Management for the International Council on the Exploration of the Sea. His expertise is in the area of groundfish and large pelagic fish stock management.
Ana Parma earned her Ph.D. in fisheries from the University of Washington in 1988. She is currently a population dynamicist for the International Pacific Halibut Commission. Her research focuses on population dynamics and adaptive fisheries management.
Tore Schweder earned his Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. He has been a professor of statistics at the University of Oslo since 1984 and is currently on sabbatical leave at Stanford University. Dr. Schweder's areas of research include statistical methodology, demography, population biology, line transect surveys, and medicine. Dr. Schweder has developed a multispecies fisheries model including both biological and economic factors.
Gunner Stefansson earned his Ph.D. in statistics from Ohio State University in 1983. He has been a manager in the Modeling Division of the Marine Research Institute, Iceland, since 1983. Dr. Stefansson's research interests include multiple comparisons in statistics and survey data used to improve precision in stock assessments.
