About

Photograph of Claire, who has short brown hair and is wearing an orange shirt, standing in a park holding a clipboard

I am an Assistant Unit Leader at the USGS Georgia Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit. My research is at the intersection of animal movement ecology, remote sensing, and disease ecology. I study the effects of landscape changes on wildlife behavior and infectious diseases using mathematical and statistical models. One of the great parts about being a modeler in ecology is that I get work with data and concepts from lots of different fields and systems, so I am always learning new techniques and more natural history. I have studied whooping cranes, waterfowl, brown bears, ungulates, ibis, and bats, plus some of their parasites and pathogens. For more details on my research, please see the Research page.

I received my PhD from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia and was previously a post-doc with at the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center (formerly Patuxent Wildlife Research Center) and NASA Ames Research Center.

Collaboration is one of my favorite parts of doing scientific research, so if you're interested in working together or just talking about a project, please get in touch!