Scott W. Raborn, Ph.D., is a Fisheries Ecologist and Biostatistician who converts complex data into clear, decision‑ready guidance for agencies, industry, and stakeholders. His work focuses on population dynamics, community ecology, and fisheries management, with a project portfolio spanning Gulf of Mexico, US south Atlantic, Alaskan, Canadian Arctic, and Newfoundland waters. He applies a broad statistical toolkit—generalized linear and additive mixed models, mark‑recapture estimators, distance sampling, and multivariate methods—to questions of abundance estimation, bycatch characterization, salmon run forecasting, and impact assessment for activities such as seismic surveys, hydrocarbon discharges, and explosive platform removals.

Dr. Raborn has led monitoring and impact studies across diverse systems. In Bristol Bay, he helped adaptively manage the Port Moller Test Fishery to enable more reliable in‑season forecasts of Sockeye Salmon returns; in Prudhoe Bay, he applied a before‑after‑control‑impact (BACI) design to link air‑gun activity to changes in fish catch rates; and in the Canadian Arctic, he modeled narwhal distribution changes in response to shipping vessel traffic. In the US south Atlantic, he estimated bycatch for the commercial snapper‑grouper bandit‑reel fishery. In the Gulf of Mexico, his work spans assessments of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles, estimation of Red Snapper densities across Louisiana habitats, and bycatch estimation for the penaeid shrimp fleet and Louisiana’s menhaden purse‑seine fishery.