1. Benjamin Galuardi
97 Odell Ave. Beverly MA 01915
(978) 594-4221(h) (206) 914-4044 (c)
benjamin.galuardi@noaa.gov
Education
• Ph.D student and NMFS-Seagrant Fellow (MIT), Fisheries Oceanography, School of Marine Science and
Technology, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Dissertation topic: ”Use of electronic tags in stock assessment”
• Master of Science, Zoology, May, 2006, University of New Hampshire
Thesis title: ”Geolocation of pop-up satellite archival tags: Optimal smoothing of sea surface temperature
for Kalman filter estimation”
• Graduate Certificate in GIS, 2002 Northern Arizona University (32 credits earned)
• B.A. Marine Affairs, Resource Economics minor, 1998 University of Rhode Island
Professional and Research Experience
2014-present Statistcian, NOAA Fisheries, Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office, Gloucester, MA
• Quota monitoring and statistical analysis for the Atlantic sea scallop fishery. Member of Scallop Plan
Development Team
2006-2014 Research Scientist, Large Pelagics Research Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst (previously
University of New Hampshire) http://tunalab.org/
• GIS/remote sensing, statistical and oceanographic based investigations of ecology, biology and habitat of
tunas, sharks, billfish and sea turtles
• International leader in analysis of electronic tag data
2004-2005 Oceanographic Technician, Coastal Carbon study, Coastal Ocean Observing Center, UNH
April-June 2003 Experimental Biological Aide, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Columbia River
Investigations
• Radio telemetry of juvenile salmonids, sampling of resident fishes and sediment, GIS support
September 2000-January 2003 Biological Technician (Fisheries), Arizona Fisheries Resource Office (AZFRO),
Flagstaff, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Federally endangered humpback chub (Gila cypha) monitoring in the Little Colorado River in Grand
Canyon.
Summer 2002 Environmental Careers Organization Oceanographic Associate, Environmental Protection Agency
Atlantic Ecology Division
• Ground truth measurement and mapping of chlorophyll and other in water constituents for remote sensing
overflights of Narragansett Bay; Independent study: Optical Classification of Narragansett Bay based on
Normalized Water Leaving Radiance (nLw)
July-August 2000 Volunteer, USFWS and Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center
• Colorado River and Canyon Creek native fish surveys, Fisheries database management
May 1999-May 2000 Student Conservation Associate, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Federally endangered bonytail chub (Gila elegans) and razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) monitoring

2. and recovery; Operation and maintenance of Achii Hanyo native fish growout facility
1998 Coastal Fellow with URI Coastal Resources Center, Graduate School of Oceanography
• Natural Hazard Mitigation Project, focused on coastal hazards in Rhode Island
January 1996-May 1996 Lab Assistant URI Graduate School of Oceanography, Organic Geochemistry Lab
Software Development
• SatTagSim R library for simulating movement transitions from electronic tags under development
• HMMoce R library for geolocation using three dimensional hidden Markov Models under development
• discaRd R library for Cochran estimation of fishery discards link
• analyzepsat v3.0: R library for PSAT analysis link
• Electronic Tagging Geolocation Packages Repository link
• Tagbase: a simple data management system for electronic tags on marine animals link
• boaR v.1.0: R library for the Belkin-O’Reilly front detection algorithm link
Technical Expertise
• Analytical: (expert) R/S-Plus, , Oracle SQL, Matlab, ArcGIS, GMT, OGR/GDAL, AD Model Builder,
(intermediate) QGIS, GRASS, Mapwindow GIS, Idrisi, ERDAS Imagine, ENVI, Surfer, (beginner) MARK,
SeaDAS/IDL, Fledermaus, Python
• Operational: (expert) Linux/Unix, Windows, LATEX, MS Office (including Access), Open Office,
(intermediate) SQL Server, Corel Draw, Adobe CS6, HTML, ODBC
• Practical: Wilderness First Responder, Swiftwater Rescue Technician I, NAUI SCUBA, DOI flight safety
and motor boat training, Aerial photography
Teaching and Mentoring
• March 2012 Geolocation workshop at Microwave Telemetry User’s Conference, Columbia, MD
• Guest Lecture in Biological Oceanography, University of New Hampshire 2008, 2010
• Guest Lecture in Tagging of Marine Animals, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 2010
• July 2010 Geolocation workshop at University of New England
• January 2010 Geolocation workshop at University of Southern Mississippi
• Fall 2009 Mentoring two undergraduate students on statistical and aerial survey projects
• Summer 2007-2008 Assistant instructor for New Hampshire Cooperative Extension GIS courses
• Fall 2004 Basics of GIS course (one day) for Large Pelagics Research Lab
Publications
Lam, C.H., Galuardi, B., Mendillo, A., Chandler, E., and Lutcavage, M.E. 2016. Sailfish migrations connect
productive coastal areas in the West Atlantic Ocean. Scientific Reports 6: 38163. doi:10.1038/srep38163. link
Richardson, D.E., Marancik, K.E., Guyon, J.R., Lutcavage, M.E., Galuardi, B., Lam, C.H., Walsh, H.J.,
Wildes, S., Yates, D.A., and Hare, J.A. 2016. Discovery of a spawning ground reveals diverse migration strategies
in Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus). PNAS: 201525636. doi:10.1073/pnas.1525636113.link
Golet, W.J., Record, N.R., Lehuta, S., Lutcavage, M., Galuardi, B., Cooper, A.B., and Pershing, A.J. 2015.
The paradox of the pelagics: why bluefin tuna can go hungry in a sea of plenty. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 527: 181192.
doi:10.3354/meps11260. link
Dodge, K.L., Galuardi, B., and Lutcavage, M.E. 2015. Orientation behaviour of leatherback sea turtles within
the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282(1804):

3. 20143129. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.3129. link
Galuardi, B., Cadrin, S.X., Kerr, L., Miller, T.J., and Lutcavage, M. 2014. Using Electronic Tag Data to
Provide Transition Matrices for Movement Inclusive Population Models. ICCAT Col. Vol. Sci. Pap. SCRS/177.
Lam, C.H., Galuardi, B., and Lutcavage, M.E. 2014. Movements and oceanographic associations of bigeye tuna
(Thunnus obesus) in the Northwest Atlantic. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.: 115. doi: 10.1139/cjfas-2013-0511.link
Sippel, T., Paige Eveson, J., Galuardi, B., Lam, C., Hoyle, S., Maunder, M., Kleiber, P., Carvalho, F., Tsontos,
V., Teo, S.L.H., Aires-da-Silva, A., and Nicol, S. 2015. Using movement data from electronic tags in fisheries
stock assessment: A review of models, technology and experimental design. Fisheries Research 163: 152160. doi:
10.1016/j.fishres.2014.04.006.link
Galuardi, B., Lam CH (Tim) (2014) Chapter Nineteen - Telemetry Analysis of Highly Migratory Species. In:
Cadrin SX, Kerr LA, Mariani S (eds) Stock Identification Methods (Second Edition). Academic Press, San Diego,
p 447-476 link
Leatherback Turtle Movements, Dive Behavior, and Habitat Characteristics in Ecoregions of the Northwest
Atlantic Ocean Dodge KL, Galuardi B, Miller TJ, Lutcavage ME (2014) Leatherback Turtle Movements, Dive
Behavior, and Habitat Characteristics in Ecoregions of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. PLoS ONE 9(3): e91726.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091726 link
Lutcavage, M.E., Lam, C.H., and Galuardi, B. 2015. Seventeen Years and 3MillionDollarsLater :
PerformanceofPsatTagsDeployedonAtlanticBluefinandBigeyeTuna.Col.V ol.Sci.Pap.ICCAT(SCRS/2014/178).link
Golet WJ, Galuardi B, Cooper AB, Lutcavage ME (2013) Changes in the Distribution of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
(Thunnus thynnus) in the Gulf of Maine 1979-2005. PLoS ONE 8(9): e75480. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075480
link
Logan, J. M., Toppin, R., Smith, S., Galuardi, B., Porter, J. and Lutcavage, M. 2013. Contribution of
cephalopod prey to the diet of large pelagic fish predators in the central North Atlantic Ocean. Deep Sea
Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 95: 7482 link
Molly E. Lutcavage, Benjamin Galuardi, and C. H. Lam. Predicting Potential Atlantic Spawning Grounds of
Western Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Based on Electronic Tagging Results, 2002-2011. ICCAT Col. Vol. Sci. Pap.
SCRS/2012/157 link
Galuardi, B. and Lutcavage, M. 2012. Dispersal Routes and Habitat Utilization of Juvenile Atlantic Bluefin
Tuna, Thunnus thynnus, Tracked with Mini PSAT and Archival Tags. PLoS ONE 7(5): e37829. link
Musyl MK, Domeier ML, NasbyLucas N, Brill RW, McNaughton LM, Swimmer JY, B. Galuardi, J. B. Liddle.
Performance of pop-up satellite archival tags. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 2011.433:128. link
Inga F. Potter, Benjamin Galuardi, W. Huntting Howell. Horizontal movement of ocean sunfish, Mola mola, in
the northwest Atlantic, 2011, Marine Biology, 158:531-540 link
James A Sulikowski, Benjamin Galuardi, Walter Bubley, Nathan Furey, William B. Driggers III, G. Walter
Ingram Jr, and Paul C. W. Tsang , Use of satellite tags to reveal the movements of spiny dogfish, Squalus
acanthias, in the western North Atlantic Ocean, 2010, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 418, 249-254 link
Golet, W. J., Galuardi, B. and M. Lutcavage. Distribution of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the
Gulf of Maine, 1979-2005. Int. Comm. Conserv. Atlantic Tunas Coll. Vol. Sci SCRS/2010/working document.
Galuardi, B., Royer, F., Nielson, J., Logan, J.M., Golet, W. and Lutcavage, M. Complex Migration Routes of
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Question Current Population Structure Paradigm. 2010. Canadian Journal of Fisheries
and Aquatic Sciences. Vol.67(1) 966-976 link
Nicolas Go˜ni, Igaratza Fraile, Igor Arregui, Josu Santiago, Guillermo Boyra, Xabier Irigoien, Molly Lutcavage,
Ben Galuardi, John Logan, Andone Estonba, Iker Zudaire, Maitane Grande, Hilario Murua, Haritz
Arrizabalaga, On-going bluefin tuna research in the Bay of Biscay (northeast Atlantic): The Hegalabur 2009
project. ICCAT SCRS/2009/128 link
Benjamin Galuardi and Molly Lutcavage, Cover art, Tagging and Tracking of Marine Animals with Electronic

4. Devices, Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2009, Vol. 9 link
Galuardi, B., Nielsen, A., Lutcavage, M. Optimizing Smoothed Sea Surface Temperature Through
Crossvalidation, 2008, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 365, 35-44 link
Arrizabalaga,H., Pereira, J.G., Royer, F.,Galuardi, B., Goni, N., Artetxe, I., Arregi, I., Lutcavage, 2008, M.
Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) behaviour around Azores islands studied with pop-up satellite archival tags,
Fisheries Oceanography, 17 (2), 74-83 link
Wilson, S.G., Stewart, B.S., Polovina, J.J., Meekan, M.G., Stevens, J.D., Galuardi, B., 2007, Accuracy and
precision of archival tag data: a multiple-tagging study conducted on a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) in the
Indian Ocean, Fisheries Oceanography, 16 (6), 547-554 link
Presentations
• ”SatTagSIM: Software to Provide Spatial Transition Matrices from Electronic Tag Data”, American
Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, August, 2015
• ”Integrating Electronic Tag Information into Stock Assessment of Large Pelagic Animals, NMFS-Seagrant
Annual Fellows Meeting, Seattle WA, June 20, 2014
• ”Informing Spatially Explicit Stock Assessment Models with Fisheries-Independent Movement Probabilities”
American Fisheries Societys Annual Meeting in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada August 18, 2014
• ”Tracking Sailfish (Istiophorun albicans) from a Yucatan ‘Hotspot’”, 64th Annual Tuna Conference, Lake
Arrowhead, CA, 2013
• ”A Combined Modeling Approach for informing Stock Assessment with Electronic Tags”, ICES World
Conference on Stock Assessment Methods, Boston, MA, July, 2013
• ”A Combined Modeling Approach for informing Stock Assessment with Electronic Tags”, NMFS-Seagrant
Annual Fellows Meeting, Woods Hole MA, April 30, 2013
• ”New Results on Maturity Status of Western Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus thynnus” Atlantic Bluefin
Tuna Stock Assessment, Madrid, 2012
• ”Predicting potential Atlantic Spawning Grounds of Western Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Based on Electronic
Tagging Results”, 2002-2011. Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Stock Assessment, Madrid, 2012
• ”Habitat preferences of juvenile bluefin tuna in the NW Atlantic”, 62nd Annual Tuna Conference, Lake
Arrowhead, CA, 2011
• ”Linking oceanography and bluefin tuna movements in the Northwest Atlantic”, ICES Annual Science
Conference, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 21-21 2009
• ”First results from juvenile Atlantic bluefin tuna tracked with X-tags”, 60th Annual Tuna Conference, Lake
Arrowhead, CA, May 18-21, 2009
• ”First results from juvenile Atlantic bluefin tuna tracked with X-tags”, Microwave Telemetry Inc. 2009 Bird
and Fish Tracking Conference, Columbia, MD, March 24-26, 2009
• ”Complex migration tracks from Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Tagged off Nova Scotia, Canada”, ICES Annual
Science Conference, Halifax, NS, Sept. 2008
• ”Pop-up Satellite Tagging of Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) in the Gulf of Maine: Recent Results and
Techniques”, National Research Institute for Far Seas Fisheries, Fisheries Research Agency, Shimizu, Japan,
January, 2008
• ”Utilization distribution: A baseline approach using bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) sonic tracks in the
Gulf of Maine”, Electronic Tagging Symposium, San Sebastian, Spain, October, 2007
• ”Analysis of Smoothed Sea Surface Temperature Fields to Improve Kalman Filtered Estimates of Atlantic
Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) Locations” American Fisheries Society 135th Annual Meeting, Sept., 2005
and The Tuna Conference at Lake Arrowhead, May, 2005
• ”Use of GIS in Monitoring Humpback Chub in the Little Colorado River” American Fisheries Society
Arizona/New Mexico Chapter Feb., 2003
• ”How Baiting Hoopnets with Aquamax Fish Diet influences Gila cypha Catch Rates in the Little Colorado
River.” Dennis Stone co-author, Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program, 24th annual

5. Researchers Meeting, January, 2003
• ”Optical Classification of Narragansett Bay’s West Passage using Remotely Sensed Normalized Water
Leaving Radiance”, EPA Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI, August, 2002
• ”Effects of Colorado River Dams on Native Fishes”, Guest Speaker, English 105, Northern Arizona
University, June 2001; September 2001
Funding
• 2013 Age-structured simulation model of stock mixing for US Atlantic bluefin tuna populations: historical
stock composition, changing demographic states, and influence on management advice, NOAA BTRP
(Co-PI, $132,802)
• 2013 Integrating Spatially Explicit Information from Tagging to Improve Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Stock
Assessments, NOAA BTRP (Co-PI, $108,280)
• 2012-2014 National Marine Fisheries Service Seagrant Population Dynamics Fellowship Massachusetts
Institute of Technology ($115,500)
• 2012 Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Bycatch Reduction for Pelagic Longline Fisheries, NOAA (Subcontract via
Digital Globe, Co-PI $85,720)
• 2011 Direct Assessment of Juvenile Bluefin tuna: Integrating Sonar and Aerial Results in Support of
Fishery Independent Surveys, NOAA BTRP (Co-PI $134,559)
• 2007 Acoustic Assessment of Juvenile Bluefin Tuna Aggregations: A Feasibility Study. Northeast
Consortium(Co-Investigator $74,247)
• 2008 NSF travel funds for ICES ASC ($2400)
• 2005 George Moore Fellowship ($300)
• 2004&2005 UNH Graduate School & Center for Marine Biology travel grants ($200$400)
• 2003-2004 Marine Fellowship ,Center for Excellence in Coastal Ocean Observation and Analysis,
($21,000/year +tuition)
• 1998 Coastal Fellowship at URI Coastal Resources Center($2000)

6. References
• Dr. Molly Lutcavage, Associate Research Professor, Director, Large Pelagics Research Center, UMass
Boston, Gloucester, MA
(978) 283-0269, molly.lutcavage@umb.edu
• Dr. Steven X. Cadrin Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries Oceanography School for Marine Science
Technology, UMass Dartmouth
(508) 910-6358, scadrin@umassd.edu
• Dr. Shachak Pe’eri, Research Assistant Professor
Center for Coastal Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center Durham, NH
shachak@ccom.unh.edu
• Dr. Yuri Rzhanov, Research Professor
Center for Coastal Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center Durham, NH
(603) 862-0075 yuri.rzhanov@unh.edu