Postdoctoral associate in Wildlife Ecology
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Research experience
Jan 2022 - Present
Postdoctoral Associate at the Gurarie Wildlife Ecology Lab - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York (NY), USA
Supervised by Eliezer Gurarie
Project: Fate of the Caribou - Mechanisms and Consequences of Population and Distribution Change in the New Arctic
Funded by NSF - NNA
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), University of Maryland (MD), USA
Supervised by Bill Fagan and Eliezer Gurarie
Project: How do climate change and human development affect animal population in the Arctic? A case study on barren-ground caribou in North America?
Funded by NSF
Dec 2014 - Jan 2018
Ph.D. Student at the C.E.F.S. department, INRA Toulouse (31), France
Research advisors: Nicolas Morellet, Mark Hewison and Sonia Saïd
Subject: Impacts of spatiotemporal variation in resource distribution on intra-seasonal movements of two large lowland herbivores.
Co-funded by INRA and ONCFS
Jan 2014 - Jun 2014
Master’s degree internship at the C.E.F.S. department, INRA Toulouse (31), France
Subject: Discrimination of movement strategies (i.e. dispersion, migration, nomadism, residence) in roe deer and link with the heterogeneity and the predictability of resources, as well as inter-individual variation.
Funded by INRA
Jan 2013 - Jul 2013
First year Master’s degree internship at the C.E.F.S. department, I.N.R.A. Toulouse (31), France
Subject 1 (Jan – Apr): Trade off between risk avoidance and foraging – impact of landscape of fear on vigilance behaviour in roe deer.
Subject 2 (June – July): Telemetric monitoring of roe deer fawns in a fragmented environment.
Funded by INRA
Jul 2012 - Aug 2012
Sorting and identification of benthic macro-invertebrates, D.R.E.A.L. Metz (57), France
Teaching experience
April 2022
Estimating population abundance: An introduction (Guest Lecturer)
Undergraduate program - Environmental Biology, College of Environmental Science en Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA
Nov 2018
Population dynamics: collecting and analyzing Mark and Recapture data
Graduate program - Biodiversity & Management, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (31), France
Education and courses
Jun 2018
Summer course “Dealing with spatiotemporal data in movement and population ecology”
Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele All’Adige, Italy
Dec 2014 - Jan 2018
Ph.D. in Behavioural Ecology at the C.E.F.S. department, INRA Toulouse (31), France
Sep 2012 - Jun 2014
Ms. degree in Biodiversity and Evolutive Ecology, University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse (31), France
Sep 2009 - Jun 2012
Bs. degree in Biology and Environment speciality Natural and Life Science, University of Lorraine, Metz (57), France
Key Skills
Technical skills:
Treating and analyzing GPS data
Treating and analyzing remote sensing data
Modelling spatial data
Capturing wild ungulates (adults and new born Roe deer)
Telemetric monitoring
Behavioural surveys of wild ungulates in natural environment
IT skills:
Proficient in R software and building R packages
Geographic information system (ArcGIS, Quantum GIS, Carto Explorer, Google Earth Engine)
Have a good command of PostgreSQL and PostGIS
Able to analyse Mark and Recapture data on MARK software
Languages:
French (native speaker)
English (bilingual)