Rate My Professor Adrian Hordyk

Adrian Hordyk earned his PhD from Murdoch University in 2014, focusing on the development and application of a length-based method to estimate the spawning potential ratio in data-poor fish stocks. His doctoral research was supervised by Neil Loneragan and Jeremy Prince. He also holds a BSc with Honours. As a post-doctoral researcher at Murdoch University's Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research, within the School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Hordyk conducted pioneering work in fisheries science. His efforts centered on creating accessible assessment tools for small-scale, data-poor fisheries, particularly in coral reef ecosystems and regions like Indonesia, Palau, and the Coral Triangle. Hordyk's research interests encompass fisheries biology, life history evolution, sustainable fisheries, traditional fisheries, and coral reef ecosystems.

Hordyk's seminal contributions include the length-based spawning potential ratio (LB_SPR) method, introduced in his 2015 publication 'A novel length-based empirical estimation method of spawning potential ratio (SPR), and tests of its performance, for small-scale, data-poor fisheries' in the ICES Journal of Marine Science, which has garnered 575 citations. Other influential papers are 'Some explorations of the life history ratios to describe length composition, spawning-per-recruit, and the spawning potential ratio' (ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2015; 320 citations), 'Revisiting the concept of Beverton–Holt life-history invariants with the aim of informing data-poor fisheries assessment' (ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2015; 286 citations), 'Length based SPR assessment of eleven Indo-Pacific coral reef fish populations in Palau' (Fisheries Research, 2015; 263 citations), and 'A simple length-structured model based on life history ratios and incorporating size-dependent selectivity: application to spawning potential ratios for data-poor stocks' (Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2016; 177 citations). He co-developed the Data-Limited Methods Toolkit (DLMtool) R package for informing management of data-limited populations. In 2021, Hordyk co-led workshops on management strategy evaluation for Indonesian fisheries alongside Murdoch University researchers. His publications have been cited over 2,400 times, significantly impacting global approaches to fisheries stock assessment and natural resource management. Hordyk currently serves as Chief Technology Officer at Blue Matter Science Ltd. in Vancouver, Canada.