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

• An empirical evaluation of camera trap study design: How many, how long and when? (2020)
• Metal contamination of river otters in North Carolina (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)
• Bird community shifts associated with saltwater exposure in coastal forests at the leading edge of rising sea level (2019)
• Canid collision-expanding populations of coyotes (Canis latrans) and crab-eating foxes (Cerdocyon thous) meet up in Panama (2019)
• Evaluation of Artificial Cover Units as a Sampling Technique and Habitat Enhancement for Madtoms in Rivers (2019)
• Northern bobwhite breeding season habitat selection in fire-maintained pine woodland (2019)
• Resolving misaligned spatial data with integrated species distribution models (2019)
• The recent past and promising future for data integration methods to estimate species' distributions (2019)

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