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.

Department of Oceanography
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