About

We help organizations understand biological systems.

We do this through data and decision analysis, database design and software development.

What’s in a name?

Poisson is the French word for fish and the name of a statistical distribution of fundamental importance in population ecology.

Land Acknowledgement

We are grateful to live and work on the ancestral territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani Nations) and the Tsuut’ina, Stoney Nakoda, Sinixt, Syilx, and Ktunaxa Nations as well as the ancestral unceeded territories of the Haida, Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and the homelands of the Metis Nation.

Publications

Relative efficiency of hunting methods during an incomplete Sitka black-tailed deer eradication on Haida Gwaii, Canada

DOI

Assessing diverse evidence to improve conservation decision‐making

DOI

On the effectiveness of public awareness campaigns for the management of invasive species

DOI

Candida krusei form mycelia along agar surfaces towards each other and other Candida species

DOI

Correlating Sensory Assessment of Smoke-Tainted Wines with Inter-Laboratory Study Consensus Values for Volatile Phenols

DOI
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Analyses

Cowichan Lake Cuththroat Trout Exploitation Analysis 2023

The suggested citation for this analytic appendix is: Dalgarno, S. & Thorley, J.L. (2024) Cowichan Lake Cuththroat Trout Exploitation Analysis 2023. A Poisson Consulting Analysis Appendix. URL: https://www.poissonconsulting.ca/f/1638637752. Background Cowichan Lake supports an important Cutthroat Trout fishery.
2024-04-23

Elk River WCT Abundance Analysis 2023

The suggested citation for this analytic appendix is: Hill, N.E. & Thorley, J.L. (2024) Elk River WCT Abundance Analysis 2023. A Poisson Consulting Analysis Appendix. URL: https://www.poissonconsulting.ca/f/1440841288. Background The Elk River is one of eight upper Kootenay River tributaries (Bull, Michel, Skookumchuck, St.
2024-03-07

Lower Columbia River Fish Population Indexing 2022

The suggested citation for this analytic appendix is: Thorley, J.L., Dalgarno, S., Lyons, S. (2023) Lower Columbia River Fish Population Indexing 2022. A Poisson Consulting Analysis Appendix. URL: https://www.poissonconsulting.ca/f/1392245070.
2023-06-13
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Posts

Shiny Upload App User Guide

We have created a document to guide users through the steps for submitting their data to Poisson via the shiny upload app. You can find the user guide at Shiny Upload App User Guide.
2023-07-27 1 min read

Shiny Upload App

We are pleased to announce that we can now efficiently deploy user-friendly web interfaces for clients to upload different types of data including punched excel workbooks, scanned field cards, photographs, logger downloads and GPS tracks.
2021-08-12 1 min read

Species Sensitivity Distributions App

The Species Sensitivity Distributions shiny app is a webpage for interactively fitting species sensitivity distributions to concentration data. The user is able to select more than one distribution and plot the individual fits.
2018-08-17 1 min read

Yield per Recruit App

The Yield per Recruit shiny app is a webpage for interactively exploring the effect of various fish population parameters on the schedule, stock-recruitment relationship and yield. The calculations are performed by the ypr R package, which also generates the plots and table.
2018-08-16 1 min read

Tidal Predictions App

The Tide Predictions shiny app is a webpage for visualizing and downloading tide height data. The tide heights are calculated using the rtide R package. Currently, predictions are available for 637 US stations.
2018-08-07 1 min read
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Team

Technical Research

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Joe Thorley

Senior Computational Biologist

Bayesian Analysis, Decision Analysis, R Package Development

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Robyn Irvine

Senior Statistical Ecologist

Invasive Species, Ecological Disturbance

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Ayla Pearson

Intermediate Computational Biologist

Data Management, Software Development, Web Development

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Seb Dalgarno

Intermediate Computational Biologist

Data Analysis, Software Development, Web Development

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Andrea Kortello

Intermediate Ecologist

Conservation Ecology, Data Collection, Technical Writing

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Nicole Hill

Intermediate Computational Biologist

Data Analysis, Population Dynamics

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Evan Amies-Galonski

Intermediate Computational Biologist

Data Collection, Database Design, GIS

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Sarah Lyons

Intermediate Computational Biologist

Data Analysis, Study Design

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Nadine Hussein

Junior Computational Biologist

Data Management, Conservation Ecology

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Colton Stephens

Junior Computational Biologist

Data Analysis, Conservation Ecology

Technical Support

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Priscilla Durojaiye

Project Manager

Data Management, Data Analysis, Data Visualization

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Charley Jolley

Administrator

Communications, Project Management

Services

Full list of services

Data Analysis

Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood

Database Design

SQLite and PostgreSQL

Software Development

R Packages and Shiny Apps

Contact

We are based out of Nelson, Haida Gwaii, Vancouver, Kelowna and Calgary