Projects

Estimating White-tailed Deer Abundance

Objectives 1) To develop a stochastic population reconstruction model to estimate deer abundance using harvest data, and 2) consider design implications of a forward-looking infraed aerial survey of deer.

Team: Edwige Bellier (Postdoctoral Researcher), Amy Mayer (Research Associate), Brian Gerber (PI), David Kalb, and Dylan Ferreira and the RI Department of Environmental Management, Fish and Wildlife Division.

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Fisher Spatial and Population Ecology in Rhode Island

Objective: To understand the factors that limit fishers population and movement in a highly developed and highly forested area.

Team: Laken Ganoe (PhD student), Amy Mayer (Research Associate), Brian Gerber (PI), and Charlie Brown and the RI Department of Environmental Management, Fish and Wildlife Division.

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Semi-Aquatic Mammal Distribution in Rhode Island

Objective: To understand the limiting factors associated with the distribution of muskrats, beavers, and river otters in Rhode Island.

Team: John Crockett (PhD student), Amy Mayer (Research Associate), Brian Gerber (PI), and Charlie Brown and the RI Department of Environmental Management, Fish and Wildlife Division.

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Animal Diel Ecology

Objective: 1) To understand how wild animal’s change their activity and behavior across the 24-hour light-dark cycle to carryout their life history strategy and 2) to develop flexible and conceptually-based modeling approaches to make inference and predictions on animals diel activity use and selection.