People

Walter Jetz
walter.jetz@yale.edu
Principal Investigator
Fabiola Iannarilli
fabiola.iannarilli@yale.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Species Spatial Modeling
Areas of interest: species distribution, occupancy modeling, human disturbance, camera traps
Jeremy Cohen
jeremy3cohen@gmail.com
Postdoctoral Associate
Species Spatial Modeling
Areas of interest: Responses of wildlife to climate change at large scales
Doug Booher
dbooher@antmuseum.com
Research Affiliate
Taxon Experts
Areas of interest: Global Diversity, Taxonomy, Geographic Distribution, and Conservation of Ants
Scott Yanco
scott.yanco@ucdenver.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Animal Movement
Areas of interest: movement ecology, life history theory
Leila Fouda
leila.fouda@yale.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Animal Movement
Areas of interest: Movement ecology, anthropogenic stressors, life history, foraging ecology
Benjamin Kellenberger
benjamin.kellenberger@yale.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Areas of interest: Species distribution modeling with remote sensing and machine (deep) learning, hybrid models
Ben Carlson
ben.carlson@yale.edu
Graduate Student
Animal Movement
Areas of interest: Movement ecology, Individual niches, Population ecology
Shubhi Sharma
shubhi.sharma@yale.edu
Graduate Student
Species Spatial Modeling
Areas of interest: Biodiversity distribution, forests, climate change, statistical models
Richard Li
richard.li.rl839@yale.edu
Graduate Student
Species Spatial Modeling
Areas of interest: Invasion ecology, Species niches, Urban ecology
Diego Ellis Soto
diego.ellissoto@yale.edu
Graduate Student
Animal Movement
Areas of interest: Movement Ecology, Global Change Biology, Conservation, Remote Sensing, Spatial Ecology
Arata Honda
arata.honda@yale.edu
Graduate Student
Animal Movement, Species Spatial Modeling
Areas of interest: Conservation Biology, Community Ecology, Canopy Science, Remote Sensing
Lukas Gabor
gabor@fzp.czu.cz
Research Affiliate
Species Spatial Modeling
Areas of interest: Species Distribution Models, Various Spatial Data Quality in Species Distribution Models, Data Uncertainty in Publicly Shared Data, Remote Sensing, GIS
Alexander Killion
alexander.killion@yale.edu
Staff: Management
Conservation Analytics, Macro and Global Change Ecology
Areas of interest: Biodiversity Conservation, Remote Sensing, Spatial Prioritization, Decision-Science, Transdisciplinarity
Kevin Winner
kevin.winner@yale.edu
Staff: Data & Software
Species Spatial Modeling
Areas of interest: Joint Species Distribution Models, Spatial Models, Point Processes, Machine Learning, Statistical Ecology, Discrete Statistics, Kernel Methods, Metacommunity Dynamics, Abundance Dynamics, Movement Ecology
John Wilshire
john.wilshire@yale.edu
Staff: Data & Software
Map of Life: Software Development
Areas of interest: Ecoinformatics, Data Visualization, Statistics, Remote Sensing
Kalkidan Fekadu Chefira
kalkidanfekadu.chefira@yale.edu
Staff: Data & Software
Map of Life: Software Development
Areas of interest: Machine Learning, Satellite Image classification, Remote Sensing
Tamara Rudic
terudic@gmail.com
Staff: Management
Conservation Analytics
Areas of interest: Remote sensing, conservation, GIS, environmental education
Clara Brandon
clara.brandon@yale.edu
Postgrad Associate
Taxon Experts, Conservation Analytics
Areas of interest: Evolution, phylogenetics, biodiversity conservation, data analysis
Danyan Leng
danyan.leng@yale.edu
Postgrad Associate
Map of Life: Data Management, Conservation Analytics
Areas of interest: Wildlife Conservation, Movement Ecology, Data Science, GIS and Wildlife-human Interaction
Julia Portmann
julia.portmann@yale.edu
Staff: Data & Software
Map of Life: Data Management
Areas of interest: GIS, remote sensing, freshwater ecology, restoration, data management
Lia Vogas Ker Marrara
lia.vogas@yale.edu
Postgrad Associate
Map of Life: Data Management
Areas of interest: Ornithology, entomology, Botany, Statistics, Ecology and Conservation
Muyang Lu
muyang.lu@yale.edu
Former BGC Member, Graduate Student
Species Spatial Modeling
Areas of interest: macroecology, biogeography, theoretical ecology
Adin Ring
adin.ring@yale.edu
Undergraduate Student
Areas of interest: botany, invasion ecology, restoration ecology
Stefan Pinkert
Stefan.Pinkert@yale.edu
Research Affiliate
Taxon Experts, Conservation Analytics, Species Spatial Modeling
Areas of interest: Biogeography, Entomology, Evolutionary Biology, Functional Ecology, Freshwater Ecology, Macroecology, Spatial Analysis and Modelling
Prasanga Samarasinghe
prasanga.samarasinghe@anu.edu.au
Research Affiliate
Areas of interest: Spatial Audio Recording/Reproduction/Analysis, Drone Audition, Bioacoustics, Virtual Reality, Active Noise Cancellation, Speech Enhancement, Emotion Recognition
Jessica "Griffy" Vigneron
jessica.vigneron@yale.edu
Research Affiliate
Map of Life: Data Management
Areas of interest: Cognitive ecology, behavioural ecology, animal behaviour, cognition, machine learning, statistical modeling, tropical ecology, conservation, primatology, mammalogy
Jennifer McGowan
jennifer.mcgowan@yale.edu
Research Affiliate
Areas of interest: decision science, spatial conservation planning, prioritization, return on investment
Evan Parker
evan.parker@yale.edu
Undergraduate Student
Areas of interest: Conservation, biogeography, tropical ecology