People
Principal Investigator
John Fieberg
Professor: John’s research focuses on the development and application of statistical models to understand animal movement and population dynamics. Email | Google Scholar | CV
Graduate Students
Smith Freeman (co-advised with Joseph Bump)
Ph.D. Candidate Smith is developing models to understand how forest management impacts the movements of martin in the Pacific Northwest. She is also helping lead a project to develop an animal movement archive for data in Minnesota.
Hannah Slesinski (co-advised with Elena West)
MS Student Hannah is a master’s student studying green heron ecology using movement data from GPS-GSM transmitters. Her research focuses on the migration and habitat use of this species across its range.
Garrett Erickson-Harris (co-advised with Elena West)
MS Student I am an MSc student co-advised by Elena West and John Fieberg. My research interests focus on leveraging emerging technologies and methods to monitor biodiversity during a period of rapid ecosystem change. At the University of Minnesota, I will utilize a citizen science-based bioacoustics array throughout the state to identify key avian habitat associations and biodiversity patterns on often neglected private lands.
Recent Visiting Scientists
- Benedetta Catitti, Postdoctoral-Researcher from the Swiss Ornothological Institute
- Nicholas Sommer, PhD student, University of Barcelona
- Aline Giroux - Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Florida
Lab Alumni:
Postdocs
- Nilanjan Chatterjee -Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center
- Alex Bajcz - Quantitative Ecologist with the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Research Center
- Jake Ferguson - Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky
- Garrett Street - Associate Professor at the University of Mississippi
- Althea Archer - Science Communicator with the USGS Water Resources Mission Area
- Dr. Mark Ditmer – Research Ecologist with USDA at the Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Graduate Students
- Dennis Kim (PhD) - Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Minnesota
- Juliana Vélez (PhD) - Post-Doctoral Researcher at Stanford
- David Wolfson (MS, PhD) - Research Associate 5 at the University of Minnesota
- Fabiola Iannarilli (PhD) - Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Max Plank Institute
- Kelsey Vitense (PhD) - Mathematical Statistician with the EPA
Visiting Scientists
- Stephanie DeMay - Associate Research Scientist with Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute
- Kyle Zimmer - Professor, St. Thomas University, hosted during his sabbatical leave.
- Johannes Signer - collaborated on one of his PhD chapters, University of Goettingen, Germany
Interested in joining the lab?