Jim Lady

Software Engineer

School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
University of Washington
Email: jlady@uw.edu

Bio

I use my education and experience in both software engineering and statistics to develop software to study fisheries and wildlife populations. Projects that I am currently working on include:

Developing software to allow managers to estimate animal abundance based on hunting data.
Creating software to predict run-timing of salmon populations on the Columbia Basin river system.

Current Projects

Creating the computational engine of the software programs ATLAS and SURPH to estimate survival parameters of salmonid populations based on radio-tag data and PIT-tag data.
Creating the computational engine of program SURPH to estimate survival using PIT-tag data.
Creation of the program USER that allows the user to develop their own statistical models for estimating survival and movement parameters of wildlife and fish populations.

Education

MS in Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management, University of Washington
BA in Computer Science, Messiah College, Grantham, PA.