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.
10 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 (128)
displays10
tidyverse10
immunology10
r-language10
htmlwidgets10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
linear-models10
elisp10
r-package10
tmb10
glmmtmb10
gnu10
r9
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
arni-magnusson/biomass
Dec 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
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