Who we areWe are marine scientists passionate about developing and applying sound tools to solve challenges in the marine environment and support the sustainable use of marine resources. |
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After sharing offices and lunches every day for about 15 years, plus spending our dead time dreaming about cool research ideas, we decided to start a company and make it official. Marine Analytics and Management Tools is our combined effort. We are Iliana Chollett and Shay O'Farrell, two marine scientists with different but complementary interests.
Iliana is interested in understanding how the spatial variability of the seascape affects the way ecosystems function and can be managed. Shay finds behavioral ecology fascinating, and is interested in understanding why animals (humans included!) make decisions, particularly in space. While Shay enjoys brainstorming and producing big-picture ideas, Iliana gets a kick out of bringing the results to the very end of the research process and deliver them to the end user. As a result, Marine Analytics carries out creative research with a strong spatial focus, and produces quality research outputs ready for dissemination.
We enjoy working with a wide range of collaborators, from NGOs to government to Universities, using diverse statistical and modeling techniques to help solve pressing problems and produce robust, targeted, timely and useful tools.
We both have a comprehensive education in marine biology and years of postdoctoral experience. After completing our PhD degrees at the University of Exeter in England (where we met), we have also worked as researchers in Australia (University of Queensland) and the USA (Smithsonian Institution and University of California Davis). After that we settled in the West of Ireland and started our consultancy years. Here we work, rebuild an old cottage by the sea, do our bit to live sustainably, rise a child and a puppy and enjoy the sea, the wild, the wind and the rain.
Iliana is interested in understanding how the spatial variability of the seascape affects the way ecosystems function and can be managed. Shay finds behavioral ecology fascinating, and is interested in understanding why animals (humans included!) make decisions, particularly in space. While Shay enjoys brainstorming and producing big-picture ideas, Iliana gets a kick out of bringing the results to the very end of the research process and deliver them to the end user. As a result, Marine Analytics carries out creative research with a strong spatial focus, and produces quality research outputs ready for dissemination.
We enjoy working with a wide range of collaborators, from NGOs to government to Universities, using diverse statistical and modeling techniques to help solve pressing problems and produce robust, targeted, timely and useful tools.
We both have a comprehensive education in marine biology and years of postdoctoral experience. After completing our PhD degrees at the University of Exeter in England (where we met), we have also worked as researchers in Australia (University of Queensland) and the USA (Smithsonian Institution and University of California Davis). After that we settled in the West of Ireland and started our consultancy years. Here we work, rebuild an old cottage by the sea, do our bit to live sustainably, rise a child and a puppy and enjoy the sea, the wild, the wind and the rain.
