
Responsibilities
• Studying the impact of fleet behavior on bycatch risk and mitigation
• Understanding and mitigating the ecosystem impacts of floating object fisheries
• Development of assessment methodologies for vulnerable species and habitats
• Integrating new data types such as electronic monitoring and acoustic arrays into assessment and management of fisheries in the EPO
• Developing open and reproducible science practices for research and management in the EPO
Education
• PhD Environmental Science & Management 2018, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara
• Master’s Environmental Science & Management 2010, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara
• B.S. in Ecosystem Science & Policy / Biology 2007 from the University of Miami, FL
Biography
Dr. Dan Ovando joined the IATTC in 2022 as the Senior Quantitative Scientist in the Ecosystems and Bycatch Program. Dan began his career in marine science studying sharks in South Florida before expanding his interests to quantitative marine resource management during his graduate and professional work at UC Santa Barbara and at the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. Dan integrates ideas and tools from ecology, economics, and data science to help understand and manage marine social-ecological systems. His research focuses on assessing and managing data-limited fisheries, evaluating the impacts of marine conservation policies, protected areas, and reducing fisheries bycatch.
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- Ovando, Daniel, Darcy Bradley, Echelle Burns, Lennon Thomas, and James Thorson 2023. Simulating Benefits, Costs and Trade-Offs of Spatial Management in Marine Social-Ecological Systems. Fish and Fisheries
- Ovando, Daniel, Owen Liu, Renato Molina, Ana Parma, and Cody Szuwalski 2023. Global Effects of Marine Protected Areas on Food Security Are Unknown. Nature 621, no. 7979 (September 2023)
- Szuwalski, Cody S., Anne B. Hollowed, Kirstin K. Holsman, James N. Ianelli, Christopher M. Legault, Michael C. Melnychuk, Dan Ovando, and Andre E. Punt 2023. Unintended Consequences of Climate-Adaptive Fisheries Management Targets. Fish and Fisheries
- Cope, Jason M., Natalie A. Dowling, Sybrand A. Hesp, Kristen L. Omori, Pia Bessell-Browne, Leandro Castello, Rowan Chick, Dawn Dougherty, Steven J. Holmes, Richard McGarvey, Daniel Ovando, Josh Nowlis & Jeremy Prince 2023. The Stock Assessment Theory of Relativity: Deconstructing the Term ‘Data-Limited’ Fisheries into Components and Guiding Principles to Support the Science of Fisheries Management. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
- Pons, M., Watson, J.T., Ovando, D., Andraka, S., Brodie, S., Domingo, A., Fitchett, M., Forselledo, R., Hall, M., Hazen, E.L., Jannot, J.E., Herrera, M., Jiménez, S., Kaplan, D.M., Kerwath, S., Lopez, J., McVeigh, J., Pacheco, L., Rendon, L., Richerson, K., Sant’Ana, R., Sharma, R., Smith, J.A., Som 2022. Trade-offs between bycatch and target catches in static versus dynamic fishery closures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Ovando, D., Free, C.M., Jensen, O.P., Hilborn, R. 2021. A history and evaluation of catch-only stock assessment models. Fish and Fisheries
- Hilborn, R., Agostini, V.N., Chaloupka, M., Garcia, S.M., Gerber, L.R., Gilman, E., Hanich, Q., Himes-Cornell, A., Hobday, A.J., Itano, D., Kaiser, M.J., Murua, H., Ovando, D., Pilling, G.M., Rice, J.C., Sharma, R., Schaefer, K.M., Severance, C.J., Taylor, N.G., Fitchett, M. 2021. Area-based management of blue water fisheries: Current knowledge and research needs. Fish and Fisheries
- Ovando, D., Caselle, J.E., Costello, C., Deschenes, O., Gaines, S.D., Hilborn, R., Liu, O. 2021. Assessing the population-level conservation effects of marine protected areas. Conservation Biology
- Ovando, D., Hilborn, R., Monnahan, C., Rudd, M., Sharma, R., Thorson, J.T., Rousseau, Y., Ye, Y. 2021. Improving estimates of the state of global fisheries depends on better data. Fish and Fisheries