Staff Member
Cathleen Balantic
Post Doc
Email: cbalantic@uvm.edu
Education
- Ph D University of Vermont 2018
Biography
Cathleen completed her master's at the University of Pennsylvania ('14) and spent her school summers studying songbird distribution across a New Hampshire timberland. She earned her BS in Biology & Society from Cornell University ('09), before moving to Juneau, Alaska to work for a nature-minded nonprofit. Cathleen was a fellow on the UVM Smart Grid IGERT program; her dissertation focused on developing methods for monitoring wildlife in landscapes destined for energy development.
| Research Publications | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Donovan. T. M., C. Balantic, J. Katz, M. Massar, R. Knutson, K. Duh, P. W. Jones, K. Epstein, J. Lacasse-Roger, and J. Dias. 2021. Remote Ecological Monitoring with Smartphones and Tasker. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 12:163–173. | Abstract | Download | Publisher Website | June 2021 |
| Balantic, C., and T. M. Donovan. 2019. Temporally-adaptive acoustic sampling to maximize detection across a suite of focal wildlife species. Ecology and Evolution 9(18)10582-10600. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5579 | Abstract | Download | Publisher Website | August 2019 |
| Balantic, C., and T. M. Donovan. 2019. Statistical learning mitigation of false positive detections in automated acoustic wildlife monitoring. Bioacoustics 29(3):296-321. DOI: 10.1080/09524622.2019.1605309 | Abstract | Download | Publisher Website | May 2019 |
| Balantic, C., and T. M. Donovan. 2019. Dynamic wildlife occupancy models using automated acoustic monitoring data. Ecological Applications 29(3):e01854. | Abstract | Download | Publisher Website | April 2019 |
| Balantic, C., and T. Donovan. 2020. AMMonitor: Remote monitoring of biodiversity in an adaptive framework with R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11:869-877. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13397 | Abstract | Download | Publisher Website | April 2020 |
| Project | Completion Date |
|---|---|
| Adaptive Management with AMMonitor | August 2026 |
| Wildlife Monitoring in the U.S. National Parks with Cell Phones | September 2023 |
| Advancing Adaptive Management in the Riverside East Solar Energy Zone | January 2020 |
| Presentations | Presentation Date |
|---|---|
| Balantic, C., T. M. Donovan, J. Katz, and M. Massar. Temporally-adaptive acoustic sampling to maximize detection across a suite of focal wildlife species with the R package AMMonitor. April 15-17, 2018. 74th Annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Burlington, Vermont. | April 2018 |
| Balantic, C., T. M. Donovan, J. Katz, and M. Massar. Temporally-adaptive acoustic sampling to maximize detection across a suite of focal wildlife species with the R package AMMonitoR. Northeast Regional Environmental Acoustics Symposium, University of New Hampshire. March 20, 2018. Durham, NH. | March 2018 |
| Balantic, C., T. M. Donovan, J. Katz, and M. Massar. Machine learning mitigation of false positives in automated acoustic wildlife monitoring with the R package AMMonitor. April 15-17, 2018. 74th Annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Burlington, Vermont. | April 2018 |
| Balantic, C. and T. M. Donovan. 2019. Landscape-scale monitoring using smartphones and the R package AMMonitor. April 14-16, 2019. 75th Annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Groton, Connecticut. | April 2019 |
| Type | Citation | Publication Date |
|---|---|---|
| Data Release | Clarfeld, L., C. Tang, K. Huber, C. Balantic, and T. Donovan. AMMonitor: Remote monitoring of biodiversity in an adaptive framework. Version 2.1: U.S. Geological Survey software release. Reston, VA. https://doi.org/10.5066/P13MRDRV | September 2024 |
| Software Release | Clarfeld, L., C. Tang, K. Huber, C. Balantic, and T. Donovan. AMMonitor: Remote monitoring of biodiversity in an adaptive framework. Version 2.0.0: U.S. Geological Survey software release. Reston, VA. https://doi.org/10.5066/P1DKQ5RP | September 2022 |
| Data Release | Balantic, C., Massar, M., Clarfeld, L., Dillon, K., Huber, K., and Donovan, T., 2024, Bureau of Land Management Riverside East Solar Energy Zone Volume 1 (2016 - 2017): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P142FFNS. | June 2024 |
| Software Release | Balantic, C. M., Knutson, R., Duh, K., Clarfeld, L. A., Huber, K. E., and Donovan, T. M., 2024, Indiana Dunes National Park Volume 1 (2019): U.S. Geological Survey data release, doi:10.5066/P1CXDATH. | June 2024 |