{"id":25820,"date":"2026-10-16T08:50:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/?post_type=person&#038;p=25820"},"modified":"2026-10-16T08:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:58:03","slug":"nathan-hostetter","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/people\/nathan-hostetter\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Hostetter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Nathan uses geospatial analytics<\/strong> to understand how wildlife populations respond to landscape and environmental change. <strong>He develops spatial and spatiotemporal models<\/strong> that integrate animal movement, abundance, demography, and species distributions using telemetry, remote sensing, and other ecological monitoring data. <strong>Other interests<\/strong> include quantitative and spatial ecology, movement ecology, population dynamics, and decision-relevant wildlife monitoring.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25823\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25823\" src=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/10\/Hostetter_BlackBearCub-167x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nathan Hostetter holding a Black Bear cub.\" width=\"245\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/10\/Hostetter_BlackBearCub-167x300.jpg 167w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/10\/Hostetter_BlackBearCub-569x1024.jpg 569w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/10\/Hostetter_BlackBearCub-768x1383.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/10\/Hostetter_BlackBearCub-853x1536.jpg 853w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/10\/Hostetter_BlackBearCub-1137x2048.jpg 1137w, https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2026\/10\/Hostetter_BlackBearCub-scaled.jpg 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nathan combines fieldwork and geospatial modeling to understand wildlife populations across changing landscapes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":25822,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"group":[16],"person_tag":[],"class_list":["post-25820","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","group-fellows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/25820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/25820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25828,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/25820\/revisions\/25828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/group?post=25820"},{"taxonomy":"person_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnr.ncsu.edu\/geospatial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person_tag?post=25820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}