Faculty profile
Michael Dowd
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Research
Latest papers
Advancing passive acoustic ship detection in the Western Canadian Arctic: Signal processing and deep learning approaches.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2026 · senior author
Integrating multiple observation data sources to facilitate movement modelling of killer whale pods.
Movement ecology · 2026
A real-time data assimilative forecasting system for animal tracking.
Ecology · 2022
Latest funding
- $178,200
Bayesian Data Assimilation
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
- $707,100
Quantifying climate-dependent and anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem services in the Subarctic Pacific Ocean; State-of-the-art observational tools to inform policy and management
NSERC · 2015 · Co-investigator
- $60,000
Statistics for Dynamic Models with Application in the Marine Sciences
NSERC · 2012 · Principal investigator
8 publications.
Advancing passive acoustic ship detection in the Western Canadian Arctic: Signal processing and deep learning approaches.
Jedari-Eyvazi F, Frazao FS, Halliday WD, Gehrmann R, Menelon L, Dingwall JT, Whidden C, Dowd M
Integrating multiple observation data sources to facilitate movement modelling of killer whale pods.
Thompson PR, Dowd M, Yurk H, Joy R
A real-time data assimilative forecasting system for animal tracking.
Randon M, Dowd M, Joy R
Extended fisheries recovery timelines in a changing environment.
Britten GL, Dowd M, Kanary L, Worm B
Reply to Szuwalski: Recognizing ecological income inequality in the ocean.
Britten GL, Dowd M, Worm B
Changing recruitment capacity in global fish stocks.
Britten GL, Dowd M, Worm B
Predator decline leads to decreased stability in a coastal fish community.
Britten GL, Dowd M, Minto C, Ferretti F, Boero F, Lotze HK
Estimating behavioral parameters in animal movement models using a state-augmented particle filter.
Dowd M, Joy R
Bayesian Data Assimilation
Principal investigators: Dowd, Michael
Keywords: Data Assimilation; Dynamical Systems; Environmetrics; Hierarchical Bayes; Oceanography; Spatio-temporal Statistics; State Space Models; Time Series
Quantifying climate-dependent and anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem services in the Subarctic Pacific Ocean; State-of-the-art observational tools to inform policy and management
Principal investigators: Tortell, Philippe
Statistics for Dynamic Models with Application in the Marine Sciences
Principal investigators: Dowd, Michael
High performance computing for statistical research and training
Principal investigators: Dowd, Michael
Bayesian statisical estimation for nonlinear dynamic systems in the marine environmental sciences
Principal investigators: Dowd, Michael
Prediction of marine ecosystem health: a decision support tool for coastal management
Principal investigators: Grant, Jonathan
NSERC Canadian Healthy Oceans Network ( CHONe )
Principal investigators: Snelgrove, Paul
Upgrade of sun computer system with new cluster
Principal investigators: Field, Christopher
Statistical inverse methods for marine prediction
Principal investigators: Dowd, Michael
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Boris Worm and Michael Dowd: 3 shared papers
- Michael Dowd and Ruth Joy: 2 shared papers
- Dept of Mathematics and Statistics
- Biology
- Faculty of Environment
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