We apply spatial models to solve applied problems in restoration ecology. Lab projects span the globe, from cold deserts in the Great Basin to tropical rainforest in the Guiana Shield.

Field work in sagebrush steppe
Second growth forest regeneration

Lab news

10/13/24 New lab paper on counting plants in drone imagery, even with imperfect detection

9/3/24: New data release, including drone imagery from 10 wildfire sites and >23,000 mapped plants

8/15/24: Sandra Velazco has a new publication in Biological Conservation: Hotter, drier climate influences tropical tree cover loss and promotes bracken fern dominance within arrested successional patches in Andean Cloud Forests

5/24/24: Andrii Zaiats has a new paper out showing how drones can map ecological resilience after wildfire: https://doi.org/10.1007/

1/05/24: Amethyst Tagney, undergraduate in the lab, has received a prestigious NSF REU award to study raptors in Spain

12/15/23: Master’s student Ryan Wickersham has successfully defended his thesis on predicting sagebrush flower stalk production

11/15/23: Trevor Caughlin is giving an invited seminar on demography with drones at Wagenginen University in the Netherlands