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Len Thomas is a Reader in Statistics at the University of St. Andrews. He holds degrees in biology (BSc, Sheffield, UK, 1990), biological computation (MSc, York, UK, 1991) and forest science (Ph.D., University of British Colombia, Canada, 1997). He is interested in many aspects of statistical ecology including methods for esti- mating animal abundance, modeling population dynam- ics and linking anthropogenic disturbance of animals to population outcomes. His involvement in passive acoustic density estimation began in 2005 at a meeting about monitoring marine mammals on Navy testing ranges, when Stephen Martin (Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, SPAWAR) and John Hildebrand (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) suggested it would be an interesting topic to look into. They were right.
Tiago A. Marques is a Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews, from where he obtained his Ph.D. in Statistics in 2007. His first degree was in Biology at the Universidade de Lisboa, and he is still affiliated to the university as a member of CEAUL, Centro de Estatística e Aplicações da Universidade de Lisboa. His research focuses on statistical methods applied to estimating animal abundance, in particular the use and development of distance sampling. Through the Density Estimation for Cetaceans from Acoustic Fixed Sensors (DECAF) project he got involved in developing and applying methods to esti- mate animal abundance from passive acoustic data, and lately has started to think about methods to model cetacean movement.
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