Sean Hardison

I’m a quantitative fisheries ecologist specializing in the development and application of spatiotemporal and animal movement models to understand how marine populations respond to environmental variability and human activities.

My current work involves developing seasonal projections of Bristol Bay red king crab distribution using a combination of fisheries survey and satellite tagging data¹. Other recent research that I’ve led includes the evaluation of stock assessment models following the integration of a seabird diet-based recruitment index², and the role of ecological asynchrony in supporting the stability of small-scale commercial fisheries in Chesapeake Bay³.

I received my PhD in Environmental Science from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia in February 2024, and I currently work as a Research Associate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) Kodiak Laboratory. I recently founded the Rivanna Statical Ecology Group to take on part-time contracts external to my work at UAF/AFSC.

Outside of my work as a fisheries ecologist, I enjoy making custom trail maps and exploring the Front Range by foot, bike, and ski with my family.

My expertise includes:

• Ecological statistics and R programming
• Fisheries science & ecosystem-approaches to fisheries management
• GIS and cartography in R
• Reproducible research
• Data wrangling and visualization