{"id":77,"date":"2017-05-15T19:18:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2025-01-30T03:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:24:32","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Quantitative Conservation Lab, led by <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/current-lab-members\/\">Sarah Converse<\/a>, at the University of Washington. We&#8217;re interested in developing and applying methods to understand the functioning of populations, especially small and declining populations, and to improve their management. We work across a broad variety of taxa (terrestrial and marine birds, terrestrial and marine mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and fish).<\/p>\n<p>Our research projects focus on 2 themes: (1) development and application of quantitative methods in population ecology; and (2) development and application of decision-analytic methods to inform management of populations.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5223-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5223-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5223-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5223-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5223-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_5223.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Protection Island in the eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Quantitative Conservation Lab, led by Sarah Converse, at the University of Washington. We&#8217;re interested in developing and applying methods to understand the functioning of populations, especially small and declining populations, and to improve their management. We work across a broad variety of taxa (terrestrial and marine birds, terrestrial and marine mammals, amphibians, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/fullwidth.php","meta":{"spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1101,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/1101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/qcons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}