Wesley R. Elsberry

Wesley Royce Elsberry is a data scientist and software developer with an interdisciplinary background in zoology, computer science, wildlife and fisheries science, marine mammal bioacoustics, evolutionary computation, and science education.

Education

B.S.

Zoology, University of Florida, 1982.

M.S.C.S.

Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington, 1989.

Ph.D.

Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, 2003. Dissertation work concerned bottlenose dolphin biosonar and intranarial pressure.

Software and data systems

Wesley's CV materials document work across embedded avionics, Unix graphical systems, system administration, database design, web applications, data acquisition, digital signal processing, and scientific software. His later work includes .NET/C# and SQL Server applications for Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute data systems.

Research and education

His research background includes marine mammal hearing and biosonar, bioacoustics, animal behavior, artificial neural systems, evolutionary computation, and digital evolution. At Michigan State University, he worked with the Avida artificial life platform and extended Avida-Ed educational software.

Public biographical sources also note his long-running work in defense of evolution education, including involvement with TalkOrigins, Antievolution.org, The Panda's Thumb, The Austringer, and the National Center for Science Education.

Selected publications and awards

• Cranford, T. W., Elsberry, W. R., Van Bonn, W. G., and coauthors. 2011. Observation and analysis of sonar signal generation in the bottlenose dolphin. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.
• Elsberry, W. R. and Shallit, J. O. 2011. Information theory, evolutionary computation, and Dembski's complex specified information. Synthese.
• Wilkins, J. S. and Elsberry, W. R. 2001. The advantages of theft over toil: the design inference and arguing from ignorance. Biology and Philosophy.
• 2001 Fred Fairfield Memorial Award for Innovation in Marine Mammal Research, Society for Marine Mammalogy.
• 2003 Friend of Darwin Award, National Center for Science Education.

Source note

This page was drafted from Wesley R. Elsberry CV material located in the family document archive and from the public Wikipedia article on Wesley R. Elsberry. Private contact details and raw CV files are intentionally not published here.