Marie Auger-Méthé
Marie Auger-Méthé is a Canadian environmental statistician and ecologist who holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Ecology as an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, in its Department of Statistics and Institute for the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries.[1]
Research
[edit]Auger-Méthé's research concerns the movement patterns of marine and polar animals. Her doctoral research involved polar bears, supervised at the University of Alberta by Andrew Derocher and Mark A. Lewis.[2] Other subjects of her research have included narwhals,[3] orca,[4] fin whales,[5] gentoo penguins,[6] and arctic terns.[7]
Education and career
[edit]Auger-Méthé has bachelor's and master's degrees from Dalhousie University, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Alberta. She returned to Dalhousie as a postdoctoral researcher before taking her present position at the University of British Columbia.[1]
She was given her Canada Research Chair in 2018; it was renewed in 2023.[8]
Recognition
[edit]Auger-Méthé was elected to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada in 2024.[9]
Her work with students and colleagues at UBC on hidden Markov models won the 2023 Canadian Journal of Statistics Award.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Marie Auger-Méthé", People, UBC Institute for the Oceans & Fisheries, 19 May 2023, retrieved 2025-07-30
- ^ "Previous graduate students and postdocs: Marie Auger-Méthé", Polar bear science, University of Alberta, retrieved 2025-07-30
- ^ Gobeil, Mathieu (26 October 2022), "Les narvals s'adaptent partiellement au réchauffement en retardant leur migration, montre une étude", Regard sur l'Arctique (in French), retrieved 2025-07-30
- ^ "Orcas' One-Breath Mystery – Marine Biologists Confirm Longstanding Hypothesis", SciTechDaily, 30 May 2024, retrieved 2025-07-30
- ^ Pazart, Chloé (2024), "Fin whales' winter journal", Whales Online, retrieved 2025-07-30
- ^ "Falkland Islands Canadian tracking experience with Gentoo penguins", MercoPress, 29 June 2018, retrieved 2025-07-30
- ^ Vaughan, Calum (28 August 2021), "Surprising insights into the migrations of Arctic terns", Earth.com, retrieved 2025-07-30
- ^ "Marie Auger-Méthé", Canada Research Chairs, Government of Canada, retrieved 2025-07-30
- ^ Marie Auger-Méthé & Andrea Reid join the ranks of the RSC’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, UBC Institute for the Oceans & Fisheries, 3 September 2024, retrieved 2025-07-30
- ^ Evan Sidrow, Nancy Heckman, Sarah M. E. Fortune, Andrew W. Trites, Ian Murphy, and Marie Auger-Méthé, The Canadian Journal of Statistics Award 2023, Statistical Society of Canada, retrieved 2025-07-30
External links
[edit]- Statistical Ecology Research Group
- Marie Auger-Méthé publications indexed by Google Scholar
