is an oceanographer, mathematical ecologist, and artist in Glasgow.
A performance script, group-authored by the Waterways Collective on the River Spey in 2024, performed by David Overend in Edinburgh and Cromarty, zine-ified by Neil. PDF version (4.5 MB)
My thinking about seabirds and wild salmon under climate change has been shaped quite a lot by social anthropology—in particular The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing and Reclaiming the Discarded by Kathleen Millar. This 2025 SMMR webinar (video on youtube; slides as PDF) explains some of my current thinking about … Read more
The Coltrane (Copepod Life history Traits and Adaptation to New Environments) model is a mathematical framework for layering multiple levels of mesozooplankton biology on top of oceanographic models. It resolves 1) individual life history (strategy traits controlling growth, development, and size, diagnosed from a broad review of lab studies); 2) population dynamics (the time-dependent energy … Read more
Banas NS, MacDonald PS, Armstrong DA (2009) Green crab larval retention in Willapa Bay, Washington: An intensive Lagrangian modeling approach.
Banas NS, Wang D-P, Yen J (2004) Experimental validation of an individual-based model for zooplankton swarming. Handbook of Scaling Methods in Aquatic Ecology: Measurement, Analysis, Simulation (L Seuront and PG Strutton, eds.), CRC Press (download pdf) Play with the interactive model here!
Quiet Creatures: A Summer on Long Island Masters thesis, 1998, Religous Studies, Univ of Colorado (download pdf) Abstract I spent a summer working in a marine biology lab on the north shore of Long Island, padding along the local beach, watching the dramas of animal life there and searching for the keys that would make … Read more