Gammon Koval, M.Sc.

Since 2022, Gammon has been involved in a myriad of projects here at the Farallon Institute. He provides invaluable data and statistics knowledge, frequently relating oceanographic, atmospheric, and climate model data with biological data on whales, seabirds, fish, and krill to see how these organisms respond to changes in our oceans. Gammon works with Dr. Marisol García-Reyes to help with the Multivariate Ocean Climate Indicator (MOCI) among other projects.

Involvement in FI projects:

• MOCI - The Multivariate Ocean Climate Indicator project provides synthesized regional indices of coastal environment conditions for California.

• Near-Real Time Ecosystem Data for Risk Assessment and Mitigation of Whale Entanglements in California’s Dungeness Crab Fishery. Funded by California Ocean Protection Council.

• Forecasting effects of extreme events and future ocean conditions on important fisheries for the Quinault Indian Nation.

• Designing new algorithms to calculate biomass of zooplankton using the California Underwater Glider Network in collaboration with CenCOOS and SCCOOS.

Selected publications:

• Thayer JA, Kristiansen T, Konecny CA, Koval G, Laing R, Côté D (2024) Climate bottlenecks off Newfoundland and Labrador for Atlantic cod in relation to eastern Canadian marine protected areas. FACETS, 9(1):1-31. [pdf]

• García-Reyes M, Koval G, Vazquez-Cuervo J (2024) Characterizing the California Current System through Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity. Remote Sensing 16(8):1311. [pdf]

• García-Reyes M, Koval G, Sydeman WJ, Palacios D, Bedriñana-Romano L, DeForest K, Montenegro Silva C, Sepulveda M, Hines E (2023) Most eastern boundary upwelling regions represent thermal refugia in the age of climate change. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10:1158472. [pdf]