Assistant Professor

Education 2008 Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. PhD, Oceanography 2001 University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada. BSc Honors, Marine and Freshwater Biology Appointments 2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii 2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, DTU Aqua &University of Copenhagen, Denmark 2009-2012 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 2009-2010 Endeavour Research Fellow, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Hobart,Australia 2007-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Engineering Mathematics and Internetworking, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Research Interests:

• Quantitative ecology of fish and aquatic invertebrate populations, with applications to evolutionary biology, physiology, ecosystem dynamics, resource management, and climate issues
• Explaining spatial and temporal variability in population dynamics of exploited species and associated prey populations in an oceanographic context.
• Development and application of novel quantitative tools to explain variation in growth and life history.
• Development of modeling tools to consolidate current theories of environmentally dependent dynamics for individuals, populations, ecosystems, etc.

Selected Publications:

Neuheimer, A.B., and P. Grønkjær. 2012. Climate effects on size-at-age: growth in warming waters compensates for earlier maturity in an exploited marine fish. Global Change Biology 18: 1812-1822.

Neuheimer, A.B., R.E. Thresher, and J.M. Lyle. 2011. Tolerance limit for fish growth exceeded by warming waters. Nature Climate Change 1:110-113.

Neuheimer, A.B., W.C. Gentleman, and P. Pepin. 2010. Explaining regional variability in copepod recruitment: Implications for a changing climate.  Progress in Oceanography 87: 94-105.

Neuheimer, A.B., and C.T. Taggart. 2010.  Can changes in length-at-age and maturation timing in Scotian Shelf haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) be explained by fishing? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67: 854-865.

Neuheimer, A.B., W.C. Gentleman, P. Pepin, E. Head. 2010.  How to build and use individual-based models (IBMs) as hypothesis testing tools.  Journal of Marine Systems 81:122-133.

Neuheimer, A.B., W.C. Gentleman, and C. Galloway.  2009.  Modeling larval Calanus finmarchicus on Georges Bank: Time-varying mortality rates and a cannibalism hypothesis. Fisheries Oceanography 18: 147-160.

Gentleman, W.C., and A.B. Neuheimer. 2008. Functional responses and ecosystem dynamics: How clearance rates explain the influence of satiation, food-limitation and acclimation.  Journal of Plankton Research 30: 1215-1231.

Gentleman, W.C., A.B. Neuheimer, and R.G. Campbell. 2008. Modeling copepod development: Current limitations and a new realistic approach.  ICES Journal of Marine Science 65: 399-413.

Neuheimer, A.B., C.T. Taggart, and K.T. Frank.  2008. Size-at-age in haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) - application of the growing degree-day (GDD) metric.  Proceedings of the 24th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium: Resiliency of Gadid Stocks to Fishing and Climate Change Symposium: 111-123.

Neuheimer, A.B., and C.T. Taggart.  2007.  The growing degree-day and fish size-at-age: the overlooked metric.  Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64: 375-385.