Krishna Pacifici
Associate Professor
Center for Geospatial Analytics, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
Jordan Hall Addition 5217
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
- Residency and movement patterns of Cuvier's beaked whales Ziphius cavirostris off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, USA (2021)
- Survey design optimization for monitoring wildlife communities in areas managed for federally endangered species (2021)
- An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when? (2020)
- Estimating the drivers of species distributions with opportunistic data using mediation analysis (2020)
- Global forensic geolocation with deep neural networks (2020)
- LEPTOSPIRA, PARVOVIRUS, AND TOXOPLASMA IN THE NORTH AMERICAN RIVER OTTER (LONTRA CANADENSIS) IN NORTH CAROLINA, USA (2020)
- Metal contamination of river otters in North Carolina (2020)
- Public support and visitation impacts of Sunday hunting on public hunting lands (2020)
- Relationships between white-footed mice and logging residue: Informing the sustainability of potential wood bioenergy harvests (2020)
- A method for mapping hunting occurrence using publicly available, geographic variables (2019)