Fiona M Underwood

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Projects

This is a list of some of the projects I am, or have been, involved with. They give a flavour of different types of work that I can do.

  • Measuring transnational organized crime
    • Application: illegal wildlife trade
    • Technical expertise:strategy, complex systems, monitoring, global indicators, seizures data
  • Interdisciplinary workshops on sustainable management of natural resources for poverty alleviation
    • Application: sustainable management of natural resources
    • Technical expertise:strategy, complex systems, monitoring, Bayesian belief networks
  • Inferring survival rates of discarded plaice from fishing vessels
    • Application: sustainable management of natural resources, fisheries
    • Technical expertise: statistical modelling, Bayesian hierarchical models, integrating evidence
  • Improving population modelling of effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals in wild roach
    • Application: environment, ecotoxicology , fish
    • Technical expertise: statistical modelling, elicitation
  • Monitoring the illegal ivory trade
    • Application: illegal wildlife trade, elephants
    • Technical expertise: Bayesian hierarchical models, monitoring, global indicators, seizures data
  • Influence of catch share management on Marine Stewardship Council Certification Scores
    • Application: sustainable management of natural resources, fisheries
    • Technical expertise: Bayesian hierarchical models, Bayesian belief networks
  • Linking four global monitoring systems for elephants
    • Application: conservation, illegal wildlife trade, elephants
    • Technical expertise: strategy, monitoring, statistical modelling, complex systems, global indicators
  • Food security in and around the Save Valley Conservancy
    • Application: sustainable management of natural resources, fisheries
    • Technical expertise: complex systems, Bayesian belief networks, monitoring, statistical modelling
  • Analysis of daily weather data
    • Application: climate change, species conservation, agriculture
    • Technical expertise: statistical modelling
  • Enhancing the Elephant Trade Information System to guide CITES policy
    • Application: illegal wildlife trade, elephants
    • Technical expertise: project management, strategy, Bayesian hierarchical models, monitoring,global indicators, seizures data, training
  • Monitoring the illegal killing of elephants
    • Application: illegal wildlife trade, elephants
    • Technical expertise: strategy, statistical modelling, Bayesian hierarchical models, monitoring, global indicators/li>
  • Estimating number of Prunus africana using adaptive sampling
    • Application: sustainable management of natural resources, forestry
    • Technical expertise: sample design, adaptive sampling
  • Monitoring strategy for Round Island reptiles
    • Application: species conservation, reptiles
    • Technical expertise: monitoring, strategy

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