Briget Eastep
Western Colorado University, CO·Ecology & Evolution
American public lands face fast-moving pressures: environmental change, political and economic shifts, rising recreation and changing resource development. Managers need new ecological knowledge and the ability to use it within complex social systems.
- Fields
Ecology & Evolution
Earth & Environmental Science
Computer Science
- Topics
public land management
adaptive management
environmental management
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2027
What they work on
- Develop, implement and assess adaptive management strategies for public lands, designing interventions as experiments to measure their effects on species and ecosystems.
- Combine big data, sensing technology and machine learning with site-level field biology to evaluate land management dilemmas and inform on-the-ground decisions.
- Build machine learning algorithms and customized data-generation tools for ecological questions through collaborations between ecology trainees and engineering and computer science colleagues.
More about the research
The growing availability of big data and powerful computing is changing which ecological questions can be answered at the scale these decisions require.
Why it matters
The program could help land management agencies respond more quickly and effectively to environmental and social change on public lands. It would do so by producing data-driven evidence on which management strategies work for species and ecosystems. It also trains a workforce able to apply that evidence to planning and policy.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
Western Colorado University: 2 labs on PI Pages.
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