Dr Natalie Kelly BForSc (Hons), BSc, PhD

Expertise and research interests

Im one of three CSIRO statisticians (specifically, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences; or CMIS for short) working within the Australian Marine Mammal Centre to provide statistical support to marine mammal research. Originally, my area of research was quantitative forest ecology; but now I work within Antarctic marine ecology.  My primary role within the Marine Mammal Centre is to coordinate and lead an aerial survey for minke whales in east Antarctica over the summer months. Areas of statistical expertise I bring to the Marine Mammal Centre include species distribution modelling, spatial modelling, survey design and distance sampling. I also maintain research links in plant and tree ecology, specifically eucalypts and agricultural weeds.

Selected publications

Kelly, N. Accounting for correlated structure within phenological data: a case study of trend analysis of snowdrop flowering in England. In Keatley, M.R. and Hudson, I. (Eds.) Phenological Research: Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Design and Applications. Springer Verlag. (In press)

Jarvis, T., Kelly, N., Kawaguchi, S., van Wijk, E. and Nicol, S. Acoustic characterisation of the macro-scale distribution and abundance of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) off East Antarctica (30-80aE) in January-March 2006. Deep-Sea Research II. (In press).