Education

Ph.D., Forest Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (2011)

M.S., Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (2012)

M.S., Wildlife Ecology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (2007)

B.S., Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (2003)

Research Interests

Quantitative ecology, wildlife ecology, spatio-temporal modeling, statistical ecology, computational statistics, disease ecology, structured decision making, adaptive management, decision making under uncertainty

My specific research interests are driven by understanding the effects of environmental stressors and disturbances on ecological populations and communities and by making conservation and management decisions in the face of such uncertainty. My research can be broadly classified into two main areas: (1) making conservation and management decisions in the face of uncertainty, and (2) identifying the underlying mechanisms and responses of ecological systems to environmental stressors and disturbances. The connecting thread between both research areas is the development and application of quantitative methods to solve real world problems.

Courses

FW 453/553 Principles of Wildlife Science every Spring Semester

Publications

• Bird community shifts associated with saltwater exposure in coastal forests at the leading edge of rising sea level (2019)
• The recent past and promising future for data integration methods to estimate species' distributions (2019)
• Avian response to shade-layer restoration in coffee plantations in Puerto Rico (2018)
• Integrating auxiliary data in optimal spatial design for species distribution modelling (2018)
• Is the red wolf a listable unit under the US Endangered Species Act? (2018)
• Integrating multiple data sources in species distribution modeling: a framework for data fusion (2017)
• Uncertainty Quantification and Propagation for Projections of Extremes in Monthly Area Burned Under Climate Change: A Case Study in the Coastal Plain of Georgia, USA (2017)
• A spatial model for rare binary events (2017)
• Occupancy estimation for rare species using a spatially-adaptive sampling design (2016)
• Fungi identify the geographic origin of dust samples (2015)

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