Statistics Collaborations

Much of my current research program is based on collaboration with statisticians from the Department of Statistics. For example, Dr. Mark Kaiser and I directed Dr. Mike Wallendorf's research on mixture models for capture-recapture analysis. I also work closely with Dr. Phil Dixon (picture to left). Along with Kaiser, Dixon and I are leading a environmental and spatial statistics group that is funded as part of a NSF Vertical Integration In Research (VIGRE) grant. For example, Dale Tessin, a PhD student funded by VIGRE, is exploring ways to statistically model the spatial relationships between waterfowl nests and predator foraging paths.

Dr. Sarah Nusser and I have worked to link data on pheasant population trends to statewide changes in the agricultural landscape as reflected by the National Resources Conservation Service National Resources Inventory.

Dr. Nusser, Dave Otis and I have worked on statistical sampling regimes for detecting Chronic Wasting Disease. This work is funded by the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, and we published a paper on sampling surveillance.

I have particular interest in open and closed population estimation models, and spatial analyses that relate to my landscape ecology interests. Many of my students have worked on survival and movement analyses. Software to conduct many of the analyses that we are interested in is available at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Software Archive, and through Dr. Gary White's home page at Colorado State University.

I am also active in The Wildlife Society's Biometrics Working Group.