Andre Punt

Andre Eric Punt (born February 1965) is a South African fisheries scientist and mathematician, best known for his work on fisheries stock assessment. He received the K. Radway Allen Award in 1999 for his contributions to fisheries science.

Andre Punt
Born1965
Alma materUniversity of Cape Town[1]
Known forMathematical models for fisheries stock assessment
AwardsK. Radway Allen Award[2]

Early years and education

Andre Punt was born in February 1965 in Cape Town, South Africa.[1] He attended the University of Cape Town, where he received a BSc (with Honours) in Computer Science in 1986, an MSc in Applied Mathematics in 1988, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1991.[1][3][4] As a PhD student in the late 1980s, Punt and his colleague Doug Butterworth competed in an informal competition against other international research groups to develop computer simulations that could guide quota decisions for whale harvests.[5] Punt and his collaborators went on to produce simulations and formulae that could account for uncertainties in whale abundance data.[5] These approaches were subsequently applied to stock assessments for South Africa's hake, sardine, anchovy and West Coast rock lobster fisheries.[5]

Career

In 1992, after completing his doctoral studies, Punt joined the School of Fisheries at the University of Washington as a research associate.[1] In 1994, he moved to Australia to work as a resource modeller in the CSIRO's Division of Marine Research.[1] Here, his work on stock assessments was influential for Australian fisheries.[1] In 1999, the Australian Society for Fish Biology awarded Punt its K. Radway Allen Award in recognition of his scientific contributions.[1] He later rejoined the University of Washington, in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.[1] Punt is known for his international collaborations, particularly his work with the International Whaling Commission and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.[1]

gollark: It also does have the whole "anything which implements the right functions implements an interface" thing, which seems very horrible to me as a random change somewhere could cause compile errors with no good explanation.
gollark: - `make`/`new` are basically magic- `range` is magic too - what it does depends on the number of return values you use, or something. Also, IIRC user-defined types can't implement it- Generics are available for all of, what, three builtin types? Maps, slices and channels, if I remember right.- `select` also only works with the built-in channels- Constants: they can only be something like four types, and what even is `iota` doing- The multiple return values can't be used as tuples or anything. You can, as far as I'm aware, only return two (or, well, more than one) things at once, or bind two returns to two variables, nothing else.- no operator overloading- it *kind of* has exceptions (panic/recover), presumably because they realized not having any would be very annoying, but they're not very usable- whether reading from a channel is blocking also depends how many return values you use because of course
gollark: What, you mean no it doesn't have weird special cases everywhere?
gollark: It pretends to be "simple", but it isn't because there are bizarre special cases everywhere to make stuff appear to work.
gollark: So of course, lol no generics.

References
  1. "Andre Eric Punt". Australian Society for Fish Biology. Archived from the original on July 21, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
  2. "K. Radway Allen Award", Australian Society for Fish Biology, official website. Accessed 25 July 2019.
  4. Punt, Andre E. (1988) "Model selection for the dynamics of Southern African hake resources" MSc thesis, University of Cape Town (September 1988). Accessed July 21, 2020.
  5. Duvenage, Engela (September 6, 2019). "UCT prof who helped save the bluefin tuna". University of Cape Town News. Archived from the original on July 21, 2020. Retrieved July 21, 2020.
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