Personal statement
I'm an oceanographer and mathematical ecologist, with a background in physical oceanography. My current organizing questions: first, given that climate change can push on a marine ecosystem by a dozen separate pathways simultaneously, which pathways are the crucial ones? Second, what is the role of biological complexity (diversity, adaptability, behavior, life history) in large-scale patterns in the ocean? I use a range of dynamical model methods from high-resolution, spatially explicit simulations to paper-and-pencil sketches of life history and population dynamics.
Professional activities
- GlobalHAB modeling workshop online webinar series
- Organiser
- 29/6/2021
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- Ecosystem Change, Offshore Wind, Net Gain and Seabirds (ECOWINGS)
- Speirs, Douglas (Principal Investigator) Banas, Neil (Co-investigator) Heath, Mike (Co-investigator) Laverick, Jack (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026
- Using newly synthesized ecosystem signals during early smolt migration to inform salmon management in southern European stocks
- Banas, Neil (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
- Art of Mapping Ocean Change
- Banas, Neil (Principal Investigator) Heath, Mike (Co-investigator)
- 25-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2022
- How does phytoplankton diversity affect primary production in the ocean?
- Chen, Bingzhang (Principal Investigator) Banas, Neil (Co-investigator) Heath, Mike (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2024
- Mapping the use of North Atlantic ocean habitat by post-smolt salmon
- Banas, Neil (Principal Investigator)
- 03-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2022
- Global warming, plankton functional diversity, and the biological ocean pump
- Chen, Bingzhang (Principal Investigator) Banas, Neil (Principal Investigator)
- This project aims to understand the roles of plankton functional diversity on the biological ocean pump, a key process of the global carbon cycle, within the context of global warming.
We focus on the vast oligotrophic open ocean and our objective is to combine model development and observational data to address the key questions below:
What types of plankton functional traits will be the most important for primary production and carbon export?
What are the patterns of plankton functional diversity in the oligotrophic open ocean?
How will warming affect both plankton functional diversity and carbon export? - 01-Jan-2019 - 01-Jan-2022
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