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Amanda J Warlick

Amanda Warlick

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Email: awarlick@uw.edu

Biography

Amanda joined the Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in 2018 as a Ph.D. student in Sarah Converse's Quantitative Conservation Lab in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.. Integrated population modeling for species with complex life histories.

Research Publications Publication Date
Warlick, AJ, Johnson, D., Gelatt, T., Converse, SJ. 2022. Environmental drivers of demography and potential factors limiting the recovery of an endangered marine top predator. Ecosphere 13:e4325. | Abstract January 2023
Warlick AJ, GK Himes Boor, TL McGuire, KEW Shelden, EK Jacobson, C Boyd, PR Wade, AE Punt, SJ Converse. 2023. Demographic and environmental drivers of population dynamics and viability in an endangered top predator using an integrated model. Animal Conservation. | Abstract October 2023
Warlick AJ, DS Johnson, KL Sweeney, TS Gelatt, and SJ Converse. 2023. Examining the effect of environmental variability on the viability of endangered Steller sea lions using an integrated population model. Endangered Species Research 52:343-361. December 2023
Himes Boor GK, TL McGuire, AJ Warlick, RL Taylor, SJ Converse, JR McClung, AD Stephens. 2023. Estimating reproductive and juvenile survival rates when offspring ages are uncertain: a novel multievent mark-resight model with beluga whale case study. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14:631-642. January 2023
Presentations Presentation Date
Warlick, AJ, Pendleton, L, Robinson, LH, Pearson, SF, Converse, SJ. The effects of individual characteristics and ocean conditions on the reproductive phenology and demography of pigeon guillemots (Cepphus columba) on Protection Island, WA. Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference, Virtual April 2022. April 2022
Warlick, AJ, Himes Boor, G, McGuire T, Shelden, KEW, Jacobson, E, Boyd, C, Wade, P, Punt, AE, Converse, SJ. An integrated model to examine population viability and factors limiting the recovery of endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales. Alaska Marine Science Symposium, Virtual, January 2022. January 2022
Warlick AJ, Wood F, Hostetter NJ, Converse SJ. A Bayesian state-space nest survival model that incorporates breeding phenology to address unknown age and unknown fate data. International Statistical Ecology Conference. Capetown, South Africa. June 27-July 1, 2022. June 2022
Warlick AJ, SJ Converse, and DS Johnson. 2019. Modeling the effects of ocean conditions on survival in the western stock of Steller sea lions within a Bayesian integrated population model. NOAA Protected Species Assessment Workshop II. La Jolla, California. 11-14 February. February 2019
Warlick AJ, SJ Converse, and DS Johnson. 2019. Evaluating the effects of ocean conditions on survival and natality in Steller sea lions using an integrated population model. American Fisheries Society & The Wildlife Society Joint Conference, Reno, Nevada. 29 September - 3 October. September 2019
Warlick AJ, NJ Hostetter, and SJ Converse. 2020. Estimating reproductive success using a Bayesian nest survival model with uncertain nest age and nest state for Pigeon Guillemots in Puget Sound, Washington. International Statistical Ecology Conference, Online. 22-26 June. June 2020
Warlick AJ, G Himes Boor, T McGuire, KEW Shelden, C Boyd, P Wade, AE Punt, SJ Converse. 2021 (POSTPONED). Examining hypotheses for limited recovery of Cook Inlet Belugas: integrated population models reduce uncertainty in population viability analyses. Society for Marine Mammalogy Biennial Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, December 13-17, 2021. December 2021
Warlick AJ, F Wood, NJ Hostetter, and SJ Converse. 2021. Integrated population modeling of an unmarked population to examine environmental drivers of demography for an indicator species. EURING 2021 Analytical Meeting & Workshop, Virtual. May 2021
Warlick AJ, DS Johnson, and SJ Converse. 2019. Estimating abundance and the effects of ocean conditions on survival and natality in Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) using an integrated population model. World Marine Mammal Science Conference. Barcelona, Spain. 9-12 December. December 2019
Warlick AJ, C Boyd, T McGuire, KEW Shelden, E Jacobson, AE Punt, and SJ Converse. 2020. Examining hypotheses for limited recovery of Cook Inlet beluga whales: integrated population models reduce uncertainty in population viability analyses. Alaska Marine Science Symposium. Anchorage, Alaska. 27-31 January. January 2020
Warlick AJ, BS Fadely, P Mahoney, SR Melin, T Gelatt, K Raum-Suryan, and SJ Converse. 2024. Evaluating mark-resight survey design performance using simulation: endangered Steller sea lions as a case study. International Statistical Ecology Conference, Swansea, United Kingdom; 15-19 July. July 2024
Warlick AJ, BS Fadely, P Mahoney, SR Melin, T Gelatt, K Raum-Suryan, and SJ Converse. 2024. Evaluating mark-resight survey design performance using simulation: endangered Steller sea lions as a case study. Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Perth, Australia; 11-15 November. November 2024
Himes Boor GK, TL McGuire, AJ Warlick, RL Taylor, SJ Converse, JR McClung, and AD Stephens. 2022. Estimating vital rates for an endangered beluga whale using a novel mark-recapture model that leverages multi-year mother-calf associations and accounts for uncertain calf ages. Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. 1-5 December. August 2022
Converse SJ, NJ Hostetter, SM Amburgey, AE Bratt, AJ DuVall, BK Thompson, LS Petracca, HA Sipe, MH Sorel, AJ Warlick, and M Kadin. 2022. Synchrony in seabird survival: drivers at multiple spatial scales. Pacific Seabird Group Conference, Online. 23-25 February. February 2022
Bratt AE, C Cappello, AJ DuVall, HA Sipe, AJ Warlick, B Gardner, and SJ Converse. 2022. Figuring out what counts: evaluating the effect of data quantity and quality on the performance of integrated population models . International Statistical and Ecology Conference, Online. 27 June - 1 July. June 2022
Bratt AE, C Cappello, AJ DuVall, HA Sipe, AJ Warlick, B Gardner, and SJ Converse. 2021. The effects of data availability on integrated population model performance. EURING Analytical Meeting and Workshop, Online. 31 May - 11 June. May 2021