Andy Pershing

Andrew Pershing is an Assistant Research Professor of Oceanography in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, and also has an appointment with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute as an ecosystem modeler with an emphasis on Gulf of Maine fisheries issues. Dr. Pershing is a leader in the use of computing technology to model and visualize how the ocean environment influences fish and mammal populations over time and to predict potential future population changes. With funding from NOAA and NASA, Pershing is currently leading a project to use plankton abundance models to forecast possible feeding areas of the endangered right whale. He is working with the Cornell Theory Center to develop the computational tools to synthesize multiple data sources and deliver information in a timely manner to right whale researchers and managers. Dr. Pershing has Ph.D. in ecology from Cornell University.