Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member


Mr. Bobbie Suarez

Bobbie takes his rebreather unit our for a spin.

Master's

Biography

Bobbie is a MS student in the Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science program at UH-Hilo. He is working on developing occupancy and detection coefficients to apply to stock assessments of reef fishes based on visual survey methods.

Research Publications Publication Date
Suarez B & TB Grabowski. 2021. Estimating detection and occupancy coefficients for the Pacific Islands coral reef fish species. Hawaii Cooperative Fishery Research Unit Technical Report Series HCFRU-001. University of Hawaii at Hilo. Available online at: hdl.handle.net/10790/5553 | Abstract | Download | Publisher Website January 2021
Presentations Presentation Date
Suarez B & TB Grabowski. Incorporating detection and occupancy coefficients of Pacific Islands coral reef fishes into biomass estimation procedures indicates biases of current methodologies. Kūlia i ka huliau—Striving for change: 2021 Hawaii Conservation Alliance Conference. 27-29 July 2021. Honolulu, HI [virtual]. July 2021
Suarez B & TB Grabowski. Incorporating detection and occupancy coefficients of Pacific Islands coral reef fishes into biomass estimation procedures indicates biases of current methodologies. 11th Annual TCBES Research Symposium. Hilo, HI [virtual]. April 2021
Suarez B & TB Grabowski. Estimating detection and occupation coefficients for reef fish in the western Pacific. 11th Annual Tropical Conservation Biology and Environmental Science Research Symposium. Hilo, HI. 11-12 April 2019. April 2019
Suarez B & TB Grabowski. Estimating detection and occupation coefficients for reef fish in the western Pacific Ocean to improve stock assessment. 2019 Joint Annual Conference of the American Fisheries Society and The Wildlife Society. Reno, NV. 29 September - 03 October 2019. October 2019