Arni Magnusson
Senior Fisheries Scientist at Pacific Community-SPC
Noumea, France
Summary
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Top SchoolArni Magnusson is a senior fisheries scientist with over two decades bridging fisheries science and statistical methods, currently applying that expertise at the Pacific Community (SPC) in Noumea. He has led data-driven assessment and open-data workflow initiatives for international bodies including ICES, FAO-GFCM and SPC, helping translate complex stock assessment science into practical management tools. Trained to PhD level at the University of Washington, he combines hands-on research, mentoring and software-minded reproducible workflows to modernize fisheries decision-making. His career spans field science, academic teaching and multilateral technical roles, giving him a rare perspective on both local fisheries data and global governance processes. Notably, he has repeatedly moved between research institutions and international organizations, signaling an ability to operationalize academic methods at policy-relevant scales.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Fisheries Science, Ph.D., Fisheries Science at University of WashingtonB.S., Fisheries Biology, B.S., Fisheries Biology at Háskóli Íslands
Github Skills (100)
tidyverse10
immunology10
computation10
r-package10
tmb10
toolkits10
webservice10
glmmtmb10
gnu10
r9
reproducible-science9
root-finding9
pipeline9
points9
emacs9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ices-taf/2016_ple-eche
May 2017 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 74 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 11 months
PacificCommunity/condor
Feb 2023 - Mar 2026
Interact with Condor from R via SSH
Contributions:6 releases, 2 PRs, 152 pushes in 3 years 1 month
sshhtcondorofpsamr
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