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CURRICULUM VITAE Full Name: Dr Richard O'driscoll Present Position CURRICULUM VITAE Full name: Dr Richard O’Driscoll Present position: Programme Leader –fisheries stock assessment & monitoring Present employer: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited Present work address: Private Bag 14–901 Wellington NEW ZEALAND 6241 Academic Qualifications: B.Sc., Dip.Sci. (Distinction), Ph.D. Years as practicing researcher: 19 Honours, distinctions, societies: Chair of ICES Working Group on Fisheries Acoustics Science and Technology 2017–19 Editorial panel ICES Journal of Marine Science since 2013 Member of ICES Working Group on Fisheries Acoustics, Science, and Technology since 1999 Member of the MFish Stock Assessment Advisory Group formed in 2009 Member of New Zealand Marine Sciences’ Society Convenor of CCAMLR Subgroup on Acoustic Surveys and Analysis Methods 2006–09 Member of CCAMLR Fish Stock Assessment Working Group 2002–06 NZ FRST Post-Doctoral Fellowship 1998 Claude McCarthy Fellowship 1996 Television New Zealand Young Achiever’s Award 1995 University of Otago Jubilee 125 Postgraduate Scholarship 1994 Bank of New Zealand Graduate Scholarship 1993 Massey Scholar 1992 Professional positions held: 2012 - Programme Leader, Fisheries Stock Assessment & Monitoring NIWA Wellington 2010 – Principal Scientist, NIWA, Wellington 2004 – 12 Group Manager, NIWA, Wellington 2000 – 03 Research Scientist, NIWA, Wellington 1998 – 00 NZ Foundation for Research Science and Technology Post-Doctoral Fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. 1997 – 98 Research Assistant, NIWA, Dunedin Present research speciality: Fish spatial distribution, predator-prey interactions, acoustic surveys, trawl surveys, biomass estimation. Relevant Experience: I currently lead projects to estimate abundance of middle depth and deepwater fish species using trawl and acoustic surveys. I am also involved in biodiversity research programmes in the Ross Sea (Antarctica), around New Zealand seamounts, and on the Chatham Rise. I am current chair of the ICES Working Group on Fisheries Acoustics Science and Technology, and past convenor of the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) Subgroup on Acoustic Survey Analysis Methods. I have extensive sea-going and practical fisheries experience both in New Zealand and overseas, including three Antarctic voyages. I have worked intensively with the NZ fishing industry on opportunistic acoustic data collection and I am a founder member of the Southern Ocean Network of Acoustics which aims to create a global dataset of acoustic data for multi-disciplinary studies. I am an expert editor for ICES Journal of Marine Science. I also have experience in biological sampling, catch-effort analysis, otolith collection and stomach contents analysis. Number of primary publications : 36 Number of significant publications not included above : 125 Scientific Publications Anderson, J.T.; Dalley, E.L.; O’Driscoll, R.L. (2002). Juvenile capelin ( Mallotus villosus ) off Newfoundland and Labrador in the 1990s. ICES Journal of Marine Science 59: 917–928. Churnside, J., Jech, M., and Tenningen, E. (Eds). Clement, P.M; Fjälling, A.; Jaffe, J.S.; Jones, E.G.; Lundgren, B.; Macaulay, G.J.; McElderry, H.; O’Driscoll, R.L.; Ryan, T.E.; Shortis, M.R.; Smith, S.J.; Wakefield, W.W. (2012). Fishery applications of optical technologies. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 312 . 91 p Clark, M.; O’Driscoll, R.L. (2003). Deepwater fisheries and aspects of their impact on seamount habitat in New Zealand. Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Science 31 : 441–458. Dunford, A.J.; O’Driscoll, R.L.; Oeffner, J. (2015). Improvements in estimating an acoustic target strength–length relationship for hoki (Macruronus novaezeladiae ). Fisheries Research 162 : 12–19. Escobar-Flores, P.; O’Driscoll, R.L.; Montgomery, J.C. (2013). Acoustic characterization of pelagic fish distribution across the South Pacific Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series 490 : 169–183. Gauthier, S.; Oeffner, J.; O’Driscoll, R.L. (2014). Species composition and acoustic signatures of mesopelagic organisms in a subtropical convergence zone, the New Zealand Chatham Rise. Marine Ecology Progress Series 503 : 23–40. Hanchet, S.; O’Driscoll, R.; Ballara, S; Dunn, A. (2008). Grenadier bycatch in the toothfish longline fishery in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. American Fisheries Society Symposium 63 : 451–462 . Hanchet, S.M.; Stewart, A.L.; McMillan, P.J.; Clark, M.R.; O’Driscoll, R.L.; Stevenson, M.L. (2013). Diversity, relative abundance, new locality records, and updated fish fauna of the Ross Sea region. Antarctic Science 25 : 619–639. Kloser, R.; O’Driscoll, R.L. (2007). Introduction. In Karp, W.A. (ed.): Report on the Collection of Acoustic Data from Fishing Vessels. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 287 . 95 p. Koubbi, P.; Masato, M.; Duhamel, G.; Goarant, A.; Hulley, P-A; O’Driscoll, R.; Takashi, I.; Pruvost, P.; Tavenier, E.; Hosie, G. (2012). Ecological importance of micronektonic fish for the ecoregionalisation of the Indo-Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean: role of myctophids. Deep Sea Research II 58 : 170–180. Livingston, M.E.; Hurst, R.J.; O’Driscoll, R.L.; McKenzie, A.; Ballara, S.L.; Horn, P.L. (2015). Biology and fisheries of New Zealand hoki (Macruronus novaezelandiae ). In Arancibia, H. (ed): Hakes biology and exploitation. Fish and Aquatic Resources Series 17. Wiley- Blackwell. pp 263–293. Martin Traykovski, L.V.; O’Driscoll, R.L.; McGehee, D.E. (1998). Effect of orientation on broadband acoustic scattering of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba : implications for inverting zooplankton spectral acoustic signatures for angle of orientation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104: 2121–2135. McGehee, D.E.; O’Driscoll, R.L.; Martin Traykovski, L.V. (1998). Effects of orientation on acoustic scattering from Antarctic krill at 120 kHz. Deep Sea Research II 45: 1273–1294. O’Driscoll, R.L. (1998). Description of spatial pattern in seabird distributions along line transects using neighbour K statistics. Marine Ecology Progress Series 165: 81–94. O’Driscoll, R.L. (1998). Feeding and schooling behaviour of barracouta ( Thyrsites atun ) off Otago, New Zealand. Marine and Freshwater Research 49: 19–24. O’Driscoll, R.L. (2003). Determining species composition in mixed species marks: an example from the New Zealand hoki ( Macruronus novaezelandiae ) fishery. ICES Journal of Marine Science 60: 609–616. O’Driscoll, R.L. (2003). Book review: Hook up on kingfish. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 37: 221– 222. O’Driscoll, R.L. (2004). Estimating uncertainty associated with acoustic surveys of spawning hoki ( Macruronus novaezelandiae ) in Cook Strait, New Zealand. ICES Journal of Marine Science 61 : 84–97. O’Driscoll, R.L.; Clark, M.R. (2005). Quantifying the relative intensity of fishing on New Zealand seamounts. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 39 : 839–850. O'Driscoll, R.L.; de Joux, P.; Nelson, R.; Macaulay, G.J.; Dunford, A.J.; Marriott, P.M.; Stewart, C.; Miller, B.S. (2012). Species identification in seamount fish aggregations using moored underwater video. ICES Journal of Marine Science 69 : 648– 659. O’Driscoll, R.L.; Dunford, A.J.: Dunn, A. (2016). Industry acoustic surveys of spawning southern blue whiting on the Bounty Platform, New Zealand. Fisheries Research 178 : 61–70. O’Driscoll, R.L.; Gauthier, S.; Devine, J.A. (2009). Acoustic estimates of mesopelagic fish: as clear as day and night? ICES Journal of Marine Science 66 : 1310–1317. O’Driscoll, R.L.; Hanchet, S.M.; Miller, B.S. (2012). Can acoustic methods be used to monitor grenadier (Macrouridae) abundance in the Ross Sea region? Journal of Ichthyology 52 : 700-708. O’Driscoll, R.L; Leonori, I.; De Felice, A.; Macaulay, G.J. (2017). Acoustic method of monitoring Antarctic silverfish distribution and abundance. In Vacchi, M; Pisano, E.; Ghigliotti, L. (Eds.). The Antarctic Silverfish: a Keystone Species in a Changing Ecosystem. Advances in Polar Ecology 3. Springer. pp 237–252. O’Driscoll, R.L.; Macaulay, G.J. (2005). Using fish processing time to carry out acoustic surveys from commercial vessels. ICES Journal of Marine Science 62 : 295–305. O'Driscoll, R.L.; Macaulay, G.J.; Gauthier, S.; Pinkerton, M; Hanchet, S. (2011). Distribution, abundance, and acoustic properties of Antarctic silverfish ( Pleuragramma antarcticum ) in the Ross Sea. Deep Sea Research II 58 : 181–195. O’Driscoll, R.L.; McClatchie, S. (1998). Spatial distribution of planktivorous fish schools in relation to krill abundance and local hydrography off Otago, New Zealand. Deep Sea Research II 45: 1295–1325. O’Driscoll, R.L.; Oeffner, J.; Dunford, A.J. (2013). In situ target strength estimates of optically verified southern blue whiting ( Micromesistius australis ). ICES Journal of Marine Science 70 : 431–439. O’Driscoll, R.L.; Parsons, M.J.D.; Rose, G.A. (2001). Feeding of capelin ( Mallotus villosus ) in Newfoundland waters. Sarsia 86 : 165–176. O’Driscoll, R.L.; Renner, M.; Austin, F.J.; Spencer, H.G. (1998). Distribution of seabirds in coastal waters off Otago, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 32: 203–213. O’Driscoll, R.L.; Rose, G.A. (2001). Spatial dynamics of cod-capelin associations off Newfoundland. In Spatial Processes and Management of Fish Populations. Alaska Sea Grant, Fairbanks Alaska. pp 479–493. O’Driscoll, R.L.; Rose, G.A. (2001). In situ acoustic target strength of juvenile capelin. ICES Journal of Marine Science 58 : 342– 345. O’Driscoll, R.L.; Rose, G.A.; Anderson, J.T. (2002). Counting
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