Ocean observing systems, semantic web and agent-based modeling

Born in the Philippines and better known by his nickname, Nonong, he had been developing software packages for commercial and research institutions for over 25 years. He has decades of experience working in the field of fisheries and ecological science, essentially translating scientific concepts to scientific software tools that can be used to validate the concept and publication. Notable of these is the publication of the FAO-ICLARM Fish Stock Assessment Tools (FISAT). His work took him to various countries as an IT specialist/consultant in fisheries science. He has lead teams to develop national information systems and in the continental USA, he has taken lead roles in the development of the GIS-based Data Navigator for South Florida and similar decision support/GIS facilities, Ocean Observing Systems, agent-based modeling and participated in ontology and semantic web application design and development.

Membership:

• IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Computational Science (since 1996),
• Member, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Integrated Ocean Observing Systems (IOOS) Working Group on Web Services and Data Encoding (WSDE).,
• Internal Advisory Committee, National Center for Coral Reef Research (NCORE),
• U.S. EPA Ecosystem Services Research Program: Decision Support Framework Team, and
• Federation of Earth Science Information Partners: Semantic Web cluster

Projects and Interest:

• Gulf of Mexico Coastal and Ocean Observing System (GCOOS)
• MARES: Marine and Estuarine Goal Setting for South Florida
• Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
• Bioassay Ontology Search: Semantic Web Application

1. Saeger J. and F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. 1985. ELEFAN I and II live on screen. FISHBYTE 3(2):13-14. ICLARM, Philippines.
2. Saeger J. and F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. 1986. A revised and graphic orientated version of the ELEFAN 0, I and II programs for use on HP 86/87 microcomputers. Tech Rep. Dept. of the Mar. Fish. (8):1-233. University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
3. Pauly D., M.L. Palomares and F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. 1987. VPA estimates of the monthly population length composition, recruitment, mortality, biomass and related statistics of the Peruvian anchoveta, 1953 to 1981, p. 142-166. In D. Pauly and I. Tsukayama (eds.), The Peruvian anchoveta and its upwelling ecosystem: three decades of change. ICLARM Studies and Reviews 15, 351 p. Instituto del Mar del Peru (IMARPE), Callao, Peru; Deutsch Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), GmbH, Eschborn, Federal Republic of Germany; and the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), Manila, Philippines
4. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr., M.L. Soriano and D. Pauly. 1987. A draft guide to the Compleat ELEFAN. ICLARM Software 2, 65p. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Manila, Philippines.
5. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr., and D. Pauly. 1989. Announcing the release of Version 1.1 of the Compleat ELEFAN. FISHBYTE 7(2):20-21. ICLARM, Philippines.
6. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr., 1990. CDS Assistant (ver. 1.0). ICLARM Software 5, 19p. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Manila, Philippines.
7. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr. 1990. CDS Assistant: Utilities for the bibliographic software micro-CDS/ISIS. NAGA, the ICLARM Quarterly 13(2):17-18. ICLARM, Philippines.
8. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr. 1990. Book review: “Basic Fishery Science Programs: A compendium of microcomputer program and manual operation”, authored by S.B. Saila, C.W. Recksiek and M.H. Prager. NAGA, the ICLARM Quarterly 13(2):19. ICLARM, Philippines.
9. Pauly, D. and F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. 1990. The growth of ELEFAN. NAGA, the ICLARM Quarterly 13(2):14-16. ICLARM, Philippines.
10. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr. and D. Pauly. 1990. The Compleat ELEFAN, Version 1.1: Post-release blues. Fishbyte 8(1): 47-49.
11. Gayanilo, F. C. Jr. 1991. A program for conducting length-converted catch curves when growth is seasonal. FISHBYTE 9(2):72. ICLARM, Philippines.
12. Aquisap, A.C., M.A. Carigma, P.B. Cariño, V.M.J. Castrillo, F.C. Gayanilo, Jr., M.E.S. Guzman, C.C. Janagap, J.L. Maclean, D. Pauly, E.T. Tech and R.M. Temprosa. 1991. Asian Fisheries Science: A profile. Asian Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. 6, 45p. Asian Fisheries Society, Manila, Philippines.
13. Pauly, D., F.C. Gayanilo, Jr., R. Froese and V. Christensen. 1992. The ICLARM Software Project. Combined papers: The FishBase Project and the ICLARM Software Project, presented at the World Fisheries Congress, 2-8 May 1992, Athens, Greece.
14. Pauly, D., J. Moreau and F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. 1992. A new method for comparing growth performance of fishes applied to wild and farmed tilapias. Paper presented at the Third International Symposium on Tilapia in Aquaculture (ISTA III), 11-16 November 1991, Abidjan, Cote d’ Invoire.
15. Prien, M. and F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. 1992. SUNLIGHT: A computer program for calculation of daily solar radiation. NAGA, the ICLARM Quarterly 15(3):30-31. ICLARM, Philippines.
16. Garcia, S., D. Die and F.C. Gayanilo, Jr., 1993. Software for tropical fisheries research: the needs and response by FAO and ICLARM. ICES CM 1993/D:7.
17. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr. 1993. The ICLARM software project: back to the future. NAGA, the ICLARM Quarterly 16(2-3):13-14. ICLARM, Philippines.
18. Pauly, D., F.C. Gayanilo, Jr., R. Froese and V. Christensen. 1995. Software tools for management of tropical aquatic resources, p. 90-102. In G.T. Sakagawa (ed.). Assessment methodologies and management. Proceedings of the World Fisheries Congress, Theme 5. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi.
19. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr. (Implementation). 1995. The San Miguel Bay Story: A presentation of research and management reports on the aquatic resources of San Miguel Bay, Philippines (multimedia CD-ROM).
20. Gayanilo, F.C. 1995. FiSAT and Stock Assessment. p. 257-260. In: M. Portier and S. Nurhakim [eds.]. BIODYNEX: Biology, dynamics, exploitation of the small pelagic fishes in the Java Sea.
21. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr., P. Sparre and D. Pauly. 1996. FAO-ICLARM Fish Stock Assessment (FiSAT) User’s Guide. FAO Computerized Information Series (Fisheries) 7. FAO of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. 180p.
22. Pauly, D., J. Moreau and F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. 1996. A new method for comparing the growth performance of fishes, applied to wild and farmed tilapias, p. 433-441. In R.S.V. Pullin, J. Lazard, M. Legendre, J.B. Amon Kothias and D. Pauly (eds.) The third International Symposium on Tilapia and Aquaculture. ICLARM Conf. Proc. 41. [French]
23. Aquisap, A.C., M.A. Carigma, P.B. Cariño, V.M.J. Castrillo, F.C. Gayanilo Jr., M.E.S. Guzman, C.C. Janagap, J.L. Maclean, D. Pauly, E.T. Tech and R.M. Temprosa. 1996. Asian fisheries science: a profile, p. 457-488. In: S.S. De Silva (ed.) Perspectives in Asian fisheries: a volume to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Asian Fish. Society. Manila.
24. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr. and D. Pauly. 1996. Towards a generic trawl survey database management system. Workshop on Sustainable Exploitation of Tropical Coastal Fish Stocks in Asia. Manila, Philippines, 2-5 July. [presentation]
25. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr. and D. Pauly. 1997. FAO-ICLARM Fish Stock Assessment (FiSAT) Reference Manual. FAO Computerized Information Series (Fisheries) 8. Vol. 2. FAO of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. 265p.
26. Lavapie-Gonzales F., S.R. Ganaden and F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. 1997. Some population parameters of commercially-important fishes in the Philippines. Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Department of Agriculture, Philippines, 114p.
27. Gayanilo, F.C., Jr., G. Silvestre and D. Pauly. 1997. User's guide to B:RUN, a decision support system and teaching tool for managing the coastal resources of Brunei Darussalam. ICLARM Software 8, 22p.
28. Pauly, D., F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. and G. Silvestre. 1997. A low-level GIS for coastal zone management, with applications to Brunei Darussalam: -fsdaPart I – The concept and design elements. NAGA, the ICLARM Quarterly 20(2):41-45. ICLARM, Philippines.
29. Jarre-Teichman, A., L. Palomares, F.C. Gayanilo, Jr., M. Soriano-Barth, and D. Pauly. 1997. MAXIMS (ver. 1.0) user’s manual: To estimate the food consumption of fishes from diel stomach contents data and population parameters. ICLARM Software Series 4 (rev. 1), 46p. ICLARM, Philippines.
30. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr. and D. Pauly. 1997. An update on FiSAT. NAGA, the ICLARM Quarterly 20(3-4):69. ICLARM, Philippines.
31. Gayanilo, F. C. Jr., Strømme, T. Jr and D. Pauly. 1997. Toward a Generic Trawl survey database management system. p. 116-132. In: G. Silvestre and D. Pauly (eds.) Status and Management of tropical coastal fisheries in Asia. ICLARM Conference Proceedings 53.
32. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr., G. Silvestre and D. Pauly. 1998. A low-level GIS for coastal zone management, with application to Brunei Darussalam. Part III: simulation and tracking of oil spills. NAGA, the ICLARM Quarterly 21(1):13-15. ICLARM, Philippines.
33. Pauly, D. and F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. 1998. ABee: An alternative approach to estimate the coefficients of the length-weight relationship from length frequencies. ICLARM Software Series 49, 26p. ICLARM, Philippines.
34. Clay P., I. Cowx, D. Evans, F. C. Gayanilo Jr., R. Grainger, A. Gumy, V. Hongskul, T. Jarrett, P. Medley, P. Miyake, S. Pascoe, C. Riise, P. Sparre, C. Stamatopoulos, S. Venema, and M. Vinther. 1999. Guidelines for the Routine Collection of Capture Fishery Data. FAO of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. 113p. [also available in French and Spanish]
35. Silvestre, G.T., L.R. Garces and F.C. Gayanilo, Jr. 1999. Sustainable management of coastal fish stocks in Asia: a regional collaborative project to develop fisheries resources information system, management strategies and action plans. Fourth International Conference on Marine Biology of the South China Sea. Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, 19-22 October. [abstract and presentation]
36. Ruttan, L., F.C. Gayanilo, Jr., U.R. Sumaila and D. Pauly. 2000. Small versus large-scale fisheries: A multi-species, multi-fleet model for evaluating their interactions and potential benefits. In: Pauly, D. and Pitcher T. (eds) Methods for assessing the impact of fisheries on marine ecosystems of the North Atlantic. Fisheries Centre Research Report 8(2): 64-78. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
37. Silvestre, G.T., L. Garces and F. C. Gayanilo, Jr. 2000. Sustainable management of coastal fish stocks in Asia. NAGA, The ICLARM Quarterly 23 (1): 45-47.
38. Pauly, D. J. Moreau and F. Gayanilo. 2000. Auximetric Analyses. In: R. Froese and D. Pauly. Fishbase 2000: Concepts, design and data sources. ICLARM, Philippines. 344p.
39. F.C. Gayanilo, Jr., G. Silvestre, F. Valdez and D. Pauly 2001. Fisheries Resources Information System (FiRST): User Manual. International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Penang, Malaysia, 126p.
40. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr., E. Barrios and A. Tapawan. 2002. Community-based data collection: Pilot testing in Puerto Princesa. Fisheries Resource Management Program Information Series 95. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Quezon City, Philippines. 87p.
41. Polsenberg, J., J. McManus, F. Gayanilo. 2003. Interdisciplinary simulations of coral reef ecosystems for science, education and management: Results from the Florida Keys. 88th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Savannah, GA [oral presentation]
42. McManus, J and F. C. Gayanilo, Jr. 2003. 3D Agent-based Simulation of Human-Environment Interactions on Coral Reefs: A Prototype. Partners in Environmental Technology Technical Symposium & Workshop, Washington, USA. [poster]
43. McManus, J. and F. C. Gayanilo, Jr.. 2004. Agent-based simulation of coral reef ecosystem: A prototype. 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, 28 June – 2 July 2004, Okinawa, Japan. [abstract and oral presentation].
44. Gayanilo, F. C. Jr., A. Hazra, J. Kool and J. McManus. 2004. A GIS-based dynamic decision support system for Florida’s coral reefs. 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, 28 June – 2 July 2004, Okinawa, Japan. [abstract and oral presentation].
45. McManus, J. W., A. L. Hazra and F. Gayanilo. 2004. User Guide: Data Navigator (South Florida). National Center for Caribbean Coral Reef Research. University of Miami – Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.24p.
46. Gayanilo, F.C. Jr., Sparre P and D. Pauly. 2005. FAO-ICLARM Stock Assessment Tools II (FiSAT II). Revised version. User’s Guide. FAO Computerized Information Series (Fisheries). No. 8. 168p. (Includes a CD-ROM with the software)
47. McManus J.W., F. Gayanilo, A. Hazra, M. Brandt, A. Yñiguez, W. Cooper, J. Kool and C. Bliss. 2005. Decision Support Tools for Coral Reef Management Under Changing Climate. CCSP Workshop: Climate Science in Support of Decision Making. Arlington, VA. [poster]
48. McManus J.W., Gayanilo F.C., Hazra A, Kool J., Langdon C., Yñiguez A., Brandt M., and Cooper, W. 2005. The Challenge of Building Forecasting into the New Online Data Navigator for South Florida. Conference, National Council on Science and the Environment, Washington, D.C. (abstract and poster).
49. McManus, J.W. and Gayanilo, F.C, Jr. 2005. Predator-Prey Interdependence in a Spatially Heterogeneous Model Aquatic Ecosystem. Spatial Ecology Workshop, Miami, Fl. (Abstract).
50. Garces L. R., G. T. Silvestre, I. Stobutzki, Gayanilo F. C., F. Valdez, Saupi M., T. Boonvanich, M. Roongratri, P. Thouc, Purwanto, Haroon I., K.N. Kurup, M. Srinath, H.A.B. Rodrigo, M.D. Santos, F.S.B. Tones, M. K.Tan and D. Pauly. 2006, A regional database management system-the fisheries resource information system and tools (FiRST): Its design, utility and future directions. Fisheries Research. 78: (2-3), pp. 119-129.
51. Gayanilo, F. C. and J. W. McManus 2006. ReefRanger User Guide: Series 1: Save the Yellow Tangs. Hawai’i Coral Reef Initiative Research Program, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, HI. 14p. (published online)
52. Gayanilo, F.C., W. Cooper, M. Brandt, A. Yniguez and J. W. McManus. ReefRanger: Authoring Tool. Hawai’i Coral Reef Initiative Research Program, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, HI. 11p. (published online)
53. Gayanilo, F.C. and J. McManus. 2008. Managing uncertainties in the development of agent-based model of a complex coral reef ecosystem. 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (oral presentation and abstract).
54. McManus, J., L. Hayek, F. Gayanilo, D. Holstein, K. Stump, M. Brandt and W. Cooper. 2008. Considerations in the design of a monitoring program for fish and macrobenthos on a Caribbean fringing reef. 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (oral presentation and abstract)
55. Howard, M. K., F. C. Gayanilo and A. E. Jochens. 2009. Establishing the GCOOS Regional Association's Data Portal. Oceans 2009 MTS/IEEE, Biloxi, Mississippi.
56. Howard, M. K., F. C. Gayanilo and A. E. Jochens. 2009. Regional Ocean Data Portal: Transforming Information to Knowledge. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009.
57. Howard, M. K., S. Kobara, F. C. Gayanilo, S.K. Baum, C. Simoniello and A. E. Jochens. 2010. Regional Ocean Data Portal: Transforming Information to Knowledge. American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010.
58. Abeyruwan S., C. Chung, N. Dakar, F. Gayanilo, A. Koleti, V. Lemmon, C. Mader,M. Ogihara, D. Puram, K. Sakurai, R. Smith, U. Vempati, S. Venkataouram, U. Visser, and S. Schurer.2010. BAOSearch: A Semantic Web Application for Biological Screening and Drug Discovery Research." Semantic Web Challenge 2010, Shanghai, China. 12p.