Lab Members

Current Lab Members

Beth Gardner  Beth is an Associate Professor in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and leads the Quantitative Ecology Lab at the University of Washington. Her research interests include development of spatial capture-recapture models, hierarchical models of animal abundance and occurrence (e.g., site-occupancy models), Bayesian analysis in ecology, and spatial modeling. See Beth’s page for more info.

Sierra Gillman Sierra is a PhD student, NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and ARCS Scholar with broad interests in understanding how wildlife respond to anthropogenic pressures, non-invasive monitoring techniques, and population dynamics. For her current project, she is using quantitative modeling methods to estimate abundance of marine birds in Puget Sound.

Eve M. Hallock Eve is a M.S. Student co-advised by Dr. Sarah Converse, and is currently working on collecting baseline seabird population and breeding data on Tetiaroa Atoll in French Polynesia. Eve graduated from Cornell University in 2020 with B.A.s in Anthropology and Biology & Society, a minor in Latin American Studies, and an honors thesis on Acorn Woodpecker Behavior, completed with Dr. Walt Koenig. 

Trent Roussin  Trent is a M.S. Student and a wildlife biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. His research focuses on developing non-invasive wolf population monitoring techniques, in addition to looking at factors influencing wolf recolonization in Washington. Trent is particularly interested in empowering local communities and stakeholders to participate in wildlife management and research that is meaningful to them. He earned a B.Sc. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana in 2008 and has worked with wolves, bears, elk, deer, tigers, and seals on a variety of projects since then. He spends as much of his free time as possible hiking, hunting, climbing, skiing, and otherwise enjoying the mountains and public lands across the west.

Kaeli Swift Kaeli is a postdoctoral scholar working on the reproductive ecology of the Tinian monarch, a small, formally listed songbird whose range is restricted to a single island in the Northern Mariana Islands. Kaeli earned her MS in 2015, followed by her PhD in 2018, where she studied under Dr. John Marzluff. Her graduate work focused on the death behaviors of the American crow. Her research interests reflect a passion for avian ecology, behavior, and conservation. Kaeli is a former TEDx speaker and a devoted science communicator. She can be found on her blog or on twitter/IG at @corvidresearch. 

Marcela Todd Zaragoza Marcela is a M.S. student with a general research interest in understanding direct and indirect anthropogenic disturbances on wildlife. Her research uses camera traps to study the spatial and temporal patterns of wildlife in response to human recreation in Washington state parks. Marcela earned her B.S. from the University of Washington in 2021 in Environmental Science with a concentration in Wildlife Conservation. Her thesis analyzed egg size data of Scripps’s Murrelets at Channel Islands National Park in response to oceanographic factors. In her free time, she likes to crochet, hike, camp, and go birding!

Undergraduate Capstone Lab Members

Will be taking new capstones next year.

Former Lab Members

Samantha Zwicker, PhD. 2017 – 2023. Currently working for Hoja Nueva.

Sarah Bassing, PhD. 2017 – 2022. Currently a post-doc at University of Idaho.

Lisanne Petracca, post-doc 2020 – 2022. Currently faculty at Texas A&M Kingsville.

Jamie Brusa, post doc 2020 – 2022. Currently a research associate with NOAA.

Olivia Sanderfoot, PhD 2017-2021. Currently a post-doc at UCLA.

Robbie Emmet, PhD 2017-2021. Currently a researcher with USDA.

Evan Adams, post-doc 2016-2017. Currently a researcher at BRI.

Mike Cove, PhD 2011-2016. Currently a research scientist at NCSU.

Nathan Hostetter, PhD 2012-2016. Currently the assistant unit leader at the NCSU co-op unit.

Holly Goyert, post doc 2014-2015. Currently a research scientist at NOAA.

Rahel Sollmann, post-doc 2011-2015.  Currently a research scientist at the IZW in Berlin, Germany.

Earvin Balderama, post-doc 2012-2014. Currently an Asst. Professor of Statistics at Loyola University in Chicago.

Nick Flanders, MS 2011-2014. Now a PhD student at Old Dominion University.

Bryan Will, Masters FWCB 2011-2013

Former Undergraduate Capstone Lab Members

Ivy Terry, UW ESRM 2017

Kristina Randrup, UW ESRM 2018

Lars Nelson, UW ESRM 2019

Drew Harmon, UW ESRM 2020

Kathryn McVay, UW ESRM 2020

Alyssa Ryser, UW ESRM 2021

Caitlyn Bell, UW ESRM 2021

Sophia Romero, UW ESRM 2022

Celine Boillat, UW ESRM 2022

Donovan Murphy, UW ESRM 2022

Angela Chappa Larrea, UW ESRM 2022

Visiting Fellows

Gabriel Penido (PhD student from Brazil).  2014-2015

Rebeca Barreto (PhD student from Brazil)  2015

Isabel Garcia Barón (PhD student from Spain) 2017