About Brian

I am a quantitative animal ecologist. I work with scientists and resource and land managers to help learn through data to provide inferential or predictive knowledge or decision-support that is used for empirically informed conservation management of biodiversity.

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Interests

  • Statistical Ecology
  • Animal Demography and Distribution
  • Conservation Decision Making
  • Human-Wildlife Interactions
  • Behavioral Ecology (especially as it relates to the diel niche)
  • Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling
  • Animal Movement and Habitat Selection
  • Inference vs Prediction

Education

Ph.D., Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology - Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, 2015

M.S., Fish and Wildlife Conservation - Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA, 2010

B.S., Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation - University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA, 2003