{"id":47,"date":"2017-07-28T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sefsqel\/wordpress\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:45:37","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sefsqel\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Quantitative Ecology Lab is run by Beth Gardner at the University of \u00a0Washington.\u00a0 Our lab develops innovative quantitative methods to study wildlife, plant, and fisheries populations around the world.\u00a0 Please check out this site for information on the lab team and research projects, publications, and teaching.\u00a0 And follow the lab on Blue Sky: @labgardner.bsky.social<\/p>\n

What we do and why<\/h2>\n

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Assessing populations, including estimation of demographic rates, distribution patterns, abundance, and habitat relationships, is essential for conservation, management, and ecological\u00a0understanding. Major drivers such as climate change and land-use change will continue to alter the environment affecting\u00a0wildlife populations in new and unexpected ways. Our lab develops statistical models\u00a0to assess populations and distributions for fish, wildlife, and other organisms. Using hierarchical models to separate observation processes from the underlying state process of\u00a0interest and a Bayesian framework for analyses allows us to directly address complex biological questions.<\/p>\n

Look around the site to found out more about our lab group!<\/p>\n

For prospective students – thank you for your interest in our lab and research. I’m afraid I\u00a0 will not be accepting any new graduate students to start in Fall 2026.\u00a0 I am always looking for funding and opportunities, so if anything changes, I will post potential MS and PhD positions on ecolog, Texas A&M job board, Blue Skye, and here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Quantitative Ecology Lab is run by Beth Gardner at the University of \u00a0Washington.\u00a0 Our lab develops innovative quantitative methods to study wildlife, plant, and fisheries populations around the world.\u00a0 Please check out this site for information on the lab team and research projects, publications, and teaching.\u00a0 And follow the lab on Blue Sky: @labgardner.bsky.social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sefsqel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sefsqel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sefsqel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sefsqel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sefsqel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sefsqel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sefsqel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/sefsqel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}