Welcome!
I am currently a Research Biologist with the USDA Forest Service’s Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute – a federal interagency research institute whose mission is to advance wilderness stewardship through transformational science.
I have worked for over two decades on modeling wildlife movement and ecological connectivity. My research integrates the fields of landscape ecology, wildlife biology, sensory ecology, landscape genetics, and biostatistics to understand wildlife use of natural and developed landscapes. Much of my focus is on understanding how patterns and processes of human-driven disturbance and climate change affect wildlife populations and large ecological networks. I do this through two main lines of research. One is through modeling wildlife habitat, movement, population dynamics, genetic exchange, and connectivity at mutliple spatial scales and projecting changes given different management scenarios or climate futures. The second is through studying the impacts of recreation on wildlife. I have a particular interest in modeling connectivity within and among protected lands and in providing spatial products and decision-support tools that are useful to managers and partners.
Please follow this link to view my federal webpage, learn more about my research program, and find my contact information. You can find my Google Scholar page here.
