People
Lab PI
Jake Ferguson (Hufflepuff)
I enjoy both developing ecology theory, using models to solve management and conservation problems, and getting out in the field to explore nature. I am especially keen on understanding how animal populations experience and handle uncertainty in their environment. One of the joys of doing quantitative ecology is that I’ve been fortunate to work on a wide range of problems and systems. My favorite part of the job is working with students and helping them achieve their academic and professional goals.
Graduate students
Tania Rojas (Ravenclaw)
Tania is a PhD student assessing how mining impacts biodiversity through diverse pathways at different spatial and temporal scales, and the effectiveness of restoration practice. Her personal website is at https://taniarojasc.github.io/.
Yiyang Wang
Yiyang is a PhD student linking diet data collected through stable isotope analysis to fine-scale movement data in American black bears.
Undergraduate students
Gabrielle Beacham
Gabi is an undergraduate student working on a camera trap study at UK’s Ecological Research and Education Center (EREC). Her goal is to document seasonal behavior of habitat use the effects of disturbance on this behavior,
Past lab members
Pamela Rueda‐Cediel worked on characterizing the accuracy of past forecasting approaches.
Franz Simon was studying the properties of complex dynamical systems subjected to variability in their environment.
Laura Jiménez was a postdoc working on the design of optimal surveys based on optimal foraging principles and on applied statistical modeling of Hawai’i fisheries data with the HIMARC project.
Aubtin Rouhbakhs (Gryffindor) was an MSc student at UH Manoa working on the group size dynamics of foragers. He now works for Kupu, a youth environmental education foundation in Hawaiʻi.
Erin Salano (Ravenclaw) was an MSc student at UK working on the diet of feral cats in Hawaii. She now works for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish.