Jason Merrick has worked on projects ranging from assessing oil spill risk and counter-terrorism as well as supply chain agility, design, and sustainability. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Federal Aviation Administration, the United States Coast Guard, the American Bureau of Shipping, British Petroleum, Booz Allen Hamilton, and the Makah Tribal Council, amongst others. During his doctoral studies, Dr. Merrick worked on the Prince William Sound Risk Assessment and then worked on the first version of the Ports and Waterways Safety Assessment. Since then he has worked on ferry risk assessments in Washington State and San Francisco Bay and multiple studies of oil spill risk in Washington State. He has helped build risk models based on detailed simulations of the port or waterway and the integration of historical data with expert judgment. More recently, his research has turned to the use of machine learning for maritime risk prediction. He is a former president of the Decision Analysis Society, and holds a bachelors in mathematics and computation from Oxford University and a doctorate in operations research from George Washington University.