Current Lab Members
Dr. Graziella V. DiRenzo
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Postdocs
My main research interests are rooted in disease ecology, microbial ecology and wildlife conservation. I'm particularly interested in developing effective wildlife management and conservation strategies to address emerging disease threats. My current project focuses on using structured decision making and developing quantitative tools to improve disease management decisions for the emerging amphibian pathogen, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal).
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I am an ecologist who studies aquatic habitats including rocky intertidal, coastal salt marsh, and streams. I work on building tools that help resource managers make decisions about conservation priorities, often by building models that estimate species, broader communities, and habitat types most at risk in our changing world. My current project is in partnership with northeastern state wildlife agencies. We will be mapping biodiversity in freshwater habitats and modeling the impacts of climate change using locally downscaled climate projections. This will help states identify critical streams and riparian land for conservation and restoration.
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My research integrates social science, disease ecology, and decision science methods to provide decision support for managing wildlife diseases, invasive species, and complex natural resource challenges across a variety of systems. I'm working right now to provide decision support for wildlife management agencies battling chronic wasting disease in free-ranging deer and elk populations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and across the country.
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Graduate students
My research interests include impacts from climate change, wildlife conservation, and spatial modeling. I am most interested in applied science, and projects that allow for science communication between communities, researchers, scientists, and managers.
My Current research will focus on using NABat Program Data to understand bats with white nose syndrome, science communication, and spatial modeling! |
My main research interest is wildlife conservation with a focus on disease, genetics, and emerging/re-emerging pathogens. I am enthusiastic about how disease and genetics have effects on our wildlife population.
For my research, I will be using structured decision-making and matrix population models to analyze if the introduction of disease and detrimental alleles from confiscated turtles in the northeastern region of the United States affects their populations. |
Past Lab Members
Dr. Riley Mummah (Postdoc; 2021 - 2023)
Rachel Bisson (Undergraduate Honors; 2020 - 2021)
Andrew Gordon (MS thesis; 2021 - 2023) - USFWS as an Endangered Species Biologist at the New York Field Office in Cortland, NY
Desireé Smith (MS thesis; 2021 - 2023) - USFWS Wildlife Inspector in Atlanta, GA
- Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Research Ecologist, Eastern Ecological Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey
- Websites: USGS site, Personal website
- Assistant Professor at SUNY - Geneseo
- Websites: SUNY profile
- Postdoc at Mississippi State University
Rachel Bisson (Undergraduate Honors; 2020 - 2021)
Andrew Gordon (MS thesis; 2021 - 2023) - USFWS as an Endangered Species Biologist at the New York Field Office in Cortland, NY
Desireé Smith (MS thesis; 2021 - 2023) - USFWS Wildlife Inspector in Atlanta, GA