Knowledge areas

• Anthropogenic disturbance (noise, land use, renewable energy effects)
• Behavioural responses of wildlife to human activities
• Spatial ecology and movement behaviour
• Large mammal ecology (elephants, ungulates)
• Remote tracking and sensor technologies
• Experimental field methods (acoustic playback, behavioural assays)
• Animal behaviour and cognition

Key qualifications

• Wildlife ecologist with over two decades of experience researching the spatial ecology and behaviour of free-ranging animals in Africa, North America and Europe.
•  Extensive long-term expertise studying African savanna elephants (since 2001), with research spanning behaviour, cognition, ecology, conservation and human–wildlife dynamics.
• Expertise in assessing the impacts of anthropogenic disturbance, including noise, habitat modification and renewable energy, on wildlife behaviour, movement and fitness.
• Experience with animal tracking and remote-sensing technologies (GPS biologging, camera traps, acoustic recorders, satellite data, terrestrial laser scanning).
• Knowledge of ecological study design, behavioural observation, acoustic playback experiments, landscape-scale fieldwork and long-term monitoring.
• Proficient in data processing and statistical analysis in R, including linear and additive modelling, movement ecology, activity analyses, occupancy modelling and survey-design simulation; experience with machine learning for species classification from acoustic data.

Languages

Publications:

• Publications in NVA