Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program:
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Staff Member

Zachary Loman

Zachary Loman
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Email: zachary.loman@maine.edu

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Education

  • Ph D Mississippi State University 2014
  • MA Humboldt State University 2010
  • Other University of Delaware 2006

Biography

Zac completed his master's in biology in 2010 at Humboldt State University. He studied the Golden-cheeked Warbler (Setophaga chrysoparia), a warbler endemic to central Texas. He completed his Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries in 2014 at Mississippi State University, under the late Samuel Riffell. His Ph.D. addressed effects on songbirds from biofuel feedstock production in intensively managed pine forests. His primary species of interests included (among others) two warbler species, Prairie Warbler (Setophaga discolor) and Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens).. Dr. Zac Loman's research interest focuses on bird conservation of the passerines and near-passerines. He is primarily interested in statistical modeling as it pertains to conservation, biology and ecology. He is partial to studying birds in the family Parulidae (the New World warblers) . Currently he is working with Drs. Cynthia Loftin and Daniel Harrison to validate spatial avian landscape capability models. Again, the emphasis is on warblers: Blackburnian Warbler (Setophaga fusca), Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata), Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla), Northern Waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis), and one thrush, Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina).. Dr. Loman's teaching includes Ornithology and Applied Ecology.

Research Publications Publication Date
Loman, Z.G., W.V. Deluca, D. Harrison, C.S. Loftin, B.R. Rolek, P.B. Wood. 2018. Landscape capability models as a tool to predict fine-scale forest bird occupancy and abundance. Landscape Ecology 33:77-91. Data DOI: 10.1111/jav.01779 October 2017
Loman, Z.G., W.V. Deluca, D. Harrison, C.S. Loftin, W.S. Schwenk, and P.B. Wood. 2021. How well do proxy species models inform conservation of surrogate species? Landscape Ecology 36:2863-2877. Data DOI: 10.1111/jav.01779 July 2021
Loman, Z.G., E.J. Blomberg, W.V. Deluca, D.J. Harrison, C.S. Loftin, and P.B. Wood. 2017. Landscape capability predicts upland game bird abundance and occurrence. Journal of Wildlife Management, 81:1110-1116. DOI:10.1002/jwmg.21265.; Data DOI: 10.1111/jav.01779 April 2017
Loman, Z., C.S. Loftin, C. Spiegel, and R. Boettcher. Trends in Atlantic Flyway Breeding Colony Sizes for Five Colonial Waterbird Species. CSS 155-2024. February 2024
Project Completion Date
Laying the groundwork for science-based management of colonial waterbirds December 2021
Evaluation of representative bird species Landscape Capability models January 2018
Presentations Presentation Date
Loman, Z.G., W.V. Deluca, D. Harrison, C.S. Loftin, and P.B. Wood. 2017 Do representative forest songbirds effectively predict occurrence of ecologically similar species? 73rd Annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, 9-11 April, Norfolk, VA April 2017
Loman, Z.G., E.J. Blomberg, W.V. Deluca, D.J. Harrison, C.S. Loftin, and P.B. Wood. 2016. Validating Landscape Capability as a Predictor of Upland Game Bird Abundance and Occurrence. Poster presentation at the Annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, Raleigh, NC, 15-21 October. October 2016
Loman, Z.G., D.Harrison, C.S. Loftin, and P.B.Wood. 2016. Evaluation of a fine-grained landscape conservation planning tool for songbird conservation in the Northeastern United States. To be presented at the North American Ornithological Conference in Washington, DC, 16-20 August. August 2016
Loman, Z.G., D. Harrison, C.S.Loftin, and P.B.Wood. 2016. Validating predictions of upland game bird space use in multiple management contexts. Presentation at the 72nd Annual Meeting of Northeast Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Annapolis, MD, 3-6 April. April 2016
Loman, Z.G., D. Harrison, C.S. Loftin, P.B. Wood. 2017. Workshop on representative species model analyses. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Hadley, MA. 12 January. January 2017
Loman, Z.G. Loftin, C.S., 2020. Update on the Colonial Waterbird Database. Gulf of Maine Seabird Working Group Meeting. March 25th . Remote. March 2020
Loman, Z.G. Loftin, C.S., 2019. Web-Based Database for Interagency Sharing of Colonial Waterbird Survey Data.Waterbird Society Annual Meeting. Nov 7-10th. Princess Anne, Maryland. November 2019
Loman, Z.G. Loftin, C.S., 2019. Web-Based Database for Interagency Sharing of Colonial Waterbird Survey Data.Atlantic Marine Bird Cooperative Meeting. Nov 7-8th. Princess Anne, Maryland. November 2019
Loman, Z.G. Loftin, C.S., 2019. Web-Based Database for Interagency Sharing of Colonial Waterbird Survey Data.Atlantic Marine Bird Cooperative Meeting. Nov 7-8th. Princess Anne, Maryland. November 2019
Loman, Z. and C.S. Loftin. 2019. Waterbird Project Presentation and Proposal Development. Coastal Big Data Hub Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. 11-12 December. December 2018
Loman, Z. and C.S. Loftin. 2019. Using shinyR for web-based and interagency sharing of wildlife survey data. Presentation at the Joint Conference of the American Fisheries Society and The Wildlife Society, Reno, NV, 29 September-3 October. September 2019
Loman, Z. and C.S. Loftin. 2019. The Colonial Waterbird Database Tool. Presentation at the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Partners in Flight/Shorebird/Waterbird Working Group at the 84th North American Wildlife and Natural resources Conference, Denver, CO. 2 March 2019. March 2019
Loman, Z. and C.S. Loftin. 2019. Presentation of the USGS Colonial Waterbird Database (CWDB) and Web Tool. Avian Conservation Database Management Workshop. Raleigh, NC. 4 April 2019. April 2019
Loman, Z. and C.S. Loftin. 2019. Colonial Waterbird Database (CWDB) and Web Tool Presentation. Atlantic Flyway Council Waterbird Committee. Plymouth, MA. 27 September. September 2018
Loman, Z. and C.S. Loftin. 2019. Colonial Waterbird Database (CWDB) Web Tool Demonstration. Atlantic Flyway Committee Technical Section Waterbird Committee. Kitty Hawk, NC. 26 February 2019 February 2019
Loftin, C.S., and Z. Loman. 2021. Atlantic Flyway Waterbird Trends (with the CWB database dataset). Presentation to the Atlantic Flyway Nongame Migratory Bird Technical Session-Waterbird Committee 2 March (remote presentation). March 2021
Technical Publications Publication Date
Loman, Z., D. Harrison, C.S. Loftin, P.B. Wood. 2016. Evaluation of representative bird species’ Landscape Capability models developed by the Designing Sustainable Landscapes project in the 13-state, northeastern region of the United States. Annual report of project activity to the USFWS. 7 pp. December 2016