Wildlife Biologist - Little River Band of Ottawa Indians | @UofNH & @MichiganStateFW Alum. 🏳️🌈 Posts my own.
Manistee, MI
Joined October 2019
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Jeff didn't have to humiliate the guy, poor Rizzo. Basically "sorry about that, anyways lets watch this loser fuck up" #RIZZGOD
#Survivor #JeffProbst
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I'm awaiting funding decisions but anticipate recruiting a PhD student for fall 2025
If ur @ #TWS2024, have interests & skills that align w/our lab, & want 2 talk, pls get in touch or stop by the poster session where I'll present on coyote work done w/@RolandKays & #SnapshotUSA
ALT Map of coyote abundance across the USA
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New Paper - @DavidRHeit's 2nd MS chapter is out!
A review + mammal & bird case studies exploring nonlinearity in GLMs
GLMs are "nonlinear" on the natural scale yet entail a linearity assumption, which can be confusing
Read more (open access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
New paper out in Landscape Ecology:
The spatial scaling and individuality of habitat selection in a widespread ungulate 🦌
We found that selection coefficients varied widely, not only by spatial scale, but also by individual.
doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-0…
Of the suite of potential intrinsic and extrinsic factors we tested, study area, home range size, and % of forest cover w/in a home range predicted scale of effect for an individual.
We fit iSSFs to white-tailed deer at 65 spatial scales, and found that >57% of the time coefficients were both positive or negative, depending on the scale.
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At #ESA2022? Interested in spatial ecology or modeling or resource selection or ungulates?
Come check out @DavidRHeit's cool work on the spatial scaling of habitat selection today at 4:30pm in room 515A!
[session COS 114 - Modeling 4]
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Being inclusive doesn't guarantee we're being welcoming. We need to do more to make our campuses be both. I'm very proud of our Grad student recipients of the Kidder award and of Stonewall Grads for being recognized for their efforts. #thisisunh @UNH_GradSchool
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My webinar on Animal Movement Analysis in R is now available on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=WELTpbB5….
Includes:
• brief introduction to HMMs for animal movement;
• discussion of some common challenges;
• example analysis using momentuHMM on elephant data (feat. crawl/foieGras).
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Pending final funding, I anticipate recruiting an MS student this fall to model moose populations using camera traps & drones in NH w/me & @UNH_SAD_rs
Looking for stds excited for fieldwork, population modeling, & beautiful mountain scenery
More info: mypages.unh.edu/moll-lab/opp…
You would think after probably 45 first-days of school that I would have established a go-to 'fun fact' for ice breakers – at Durham, NH
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Looking for a grad opportunity? I have a couple openings for students to work on soil nitrogen. Below is one of the positions, this one in agricultural nitrogen use efficiency. Description and instructions for those interested below. @seritafrey @daly_ab
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The U.S. Department of Interior announced Wednesday the restoration of more than 18,800 acres of land, known as the National Bison Range, so it can be returned to Indigenous tribes in Montana. lakota.law/2SZeLJa
New review out in @ESAEcology!
We found that 8 out of 1,203 #homerange publications (0.7%) take into account the added surface area that comes with topography and other sources of landscape complexity.
New in @ESAEcology's Concepts & Synthesis section:
Landscape complexity persists as a critical source of bias in terrestrial animal home range estimation
#HomeRanges #Topography #SpatialEcology
@DavidRHeit @WaldoOrtizCalo @RECaP_Lab
doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3427
We observed that studies increasingly recognized the importance of complex surfaces in text, while not adjusting methods accordingly as is seen with other sources of bias like sample size and spatial autocorrelation.
Blessed by the presence of a porcupine at my point count location this morning! #spikeybutt – at Durham, NH