Overview of some of my current and previous projects including some of my areas of specialization.
 Golden Monkey in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
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Camera Traps Surveys for Wildlife Population Monitoring (focus on the use of arboreal camera traps)
Camera traps have frequently been used across sites to understand the community of species within an area - but the use of arboreal camera traps is much newer, with the capabilities of this methodology only beginning to be understood. In many places, arboreal animals, especially nocturnal ones, are still relatively unknown because most survey methods focus on ground-dwelling species and/or diurnal species. Projects: Current project: Baseline population survey of wildlife within a newly protected area, Gishwati-Mukura National Park, Rwanda using arboreal and ground camera traps (Project conducted with International Gorilla Conservation Programme and Rwanda Development Board funded by WWF Norway) Exploration of the arboreal wildlife community across sites (Project conducted with International Gorilla Conservation Programme and Rwanda Development Board (Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda) and the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation and Uganda Wildlife Authority (Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park, Uganda) funded by WWF Norway) Comparison of species richness and detection probability between arboreal cameras, ground cameras, and line transects surveys (Project conducted with Wildlife Conservation Society, - Rwanda Program and Rwanda Development Board) Publication |
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Understanding Trends in Illegal Activity using Ranger-collected Data
Ranger-based monitoring programs have been implemented in many protected areas around the world to reduce illegal activity, such as poaching. These data are collected through databases such as MIST, SMART, among others. Projects: Current project: Understanding trends in illegal activity and differences in detection of threats across patrolling methods, such as foot patrols, vehicles patrols, and aerial patrols (Project conducted with Wildlife Works) Effect of poaching activity on species of conservation concern and species of high risk (Project conducted with the International Gorilla Conservation Programme and Rwanda Development Board) Publication Optimal patrolling scenario for reducing poaching activity (Project conducted with Wildlife Conservation Society - Rwanda Program and Rwanda Development Board) Publication Trends in illegal activity across a protected area (Project conducted with Wildlife Conservation Society - Rwanda Program and Rwanda Development Board) Publication |
Burning of ivory and snares confiscated at the Kigali International Airport and within Nyungwe National Park
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Lion in Nairobi National Park, Kenya
Surveying for nocturnal species (with a focus on primates)
Projects: Using arboreal camera traps and nocturnal surveys to identify nocturnal primate species (Project conducted with the Nocturnal Primate Research Groups, Wildlife Conservation Society - Rwanda Program, and Rwanda Development Board) |
Wildlife Population Surveys using Line Transects
Projects: Current project: Understanding how humans alter the role of lion and other predators using co-occurrence occupancy models in an African landscape (Project conducted with Kris Everatt at Panthera) Relative and cumulative influence of anthropogenic pressures on lion occupancy across a multi-use landscape in Southern Africa (Project conducted with Kris Everatt at Panthera) Publication 
Galago sp. spotted during a nocturnal survey
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Species Status Assessments
Projects: Current project: Use of matrix models, expert elicitation, and various aggregation methods to understand the population trend for wood turtles to inform their species status assessment (Project conducted with U.S. Geological Survey's Wetland and Aquatic Research Center) |