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Justin Fischer |
Justin W. Fischer is a Wildlife Biologist with the USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Research Center, Fort Collins CO. His area of expertise includes geospatial analysis, spatial modeling, remote sensing, cartography, and GIS and GPS data analysis and management. Recent research activities involve ungulate disease research, testing multiple home range estimators on different animal datasets and exploring the potential for unmanned aircraft systems for wildlife research at the NWRC.
Expertise Keywords: deer, disease epidemiology, elk, home range estimation, movement analysis, spatial ecology, telemetry, ungulates
Taxonomic Groups of Interest: Ungulates, cervids
Areas of Expertise:
- GIS and GPS data analysis and management
- Spatial modeling
- Remote Sensing
- Cartography
- Database design and maintenance
- Wildlife Capture and Sampling
Products/Techniques Developed or Tested:
- Minimum convex polygon
- Kernel density estimation (reference, fixed, adaptive, plug-in)
- Brownian bridge movement models
- Local convex hull
Current Research:
- Spatial analysis of wildlife movements and activity patterns
- Developing ways to reduce disease transmission at the interface between domestic and wild cervids
- Unmanned aircraft system research
Education:
- M.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Natural Resource Science, “A Regional GIS-based Analysis of Elk Habitat Suitability in Northwestern Nebraska”
- B.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Natural Resources
:Previous Positions:
- GIS Analyst, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands
- GIS/Remote Sensing Analyst, Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies
Contact information:
Address: 4101 LaPorte Ave, Fort Collins CO 80521
Telephone: 970-266-6174
Fax: 970-266-6157
Email: Justin.w.fischer@aphis.usda.gov
NWRC Research Project: Wildlife Disease Research and Surveillance