Questions and inquiries welcome, my email is joshua.twining@oregonstate.edu

Feel free to email me at Joshua.twining@oregonstate.edu with any questions!

It’s got everything you could dream of - loads of fieldwork, small mammal trapping and handling, simulations to inform sampling designs and hierarchical modeling, all in the beautiful Pacific Northwest!

Hi Dormiens, applications in my department (Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences) do not close as they are on a rolling basis term to term. See link below for more info:

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ahah I am Gabby. Started just a few months back.

Thank you!

I agree! Thanks for sharing Jess.

The PhD project: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

The masters project: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

Well this made my day! Thanks Galatea for the great sci comm. I love the graphic you made!

Forgive me, my responses were to a question about modeling plant interactions as opposed to impacts of habitat on animal abundance (the latter of which these models do - you can add any covariates that you hypothesize influence the state process (I.e. abundance) of your species of interest).

My inkling is that using this model with plant communities wouldn't be an optimal approach but I am uninformed on standard practices when it comes to thinking about plant interactions!

With mobile animals we have to contend with ubquitous issue of hetereogenity in detectability (so we explicitly address by modeling observation process.) I am niave to whether this is an issue, or even considered / worthwhile when sampling plants (which are stationary and simpler to survey?).

Thanks Alyssa! I think it *could* be applied to plant systems, but I imagine (I don't know) that there may be more information-rich models used in plant world which contain more info about underlying abundances (here we used detection/non-detection data, but with plants you could just count them?)

I would love to join if possible!

I develop and use hierachical models for estimating population sizes, distributions, and species interactions to inform evidence-based management and conservation of wildlife populations.

Thanks Alexej! I hope you are well. We should catch up soon!

Thanks Remington!