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

Staff Member

Brandon Boxler

Brandon Boxler
Master's
Email: brandon.boxler@maine.edu

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Education

  • Other University of Maine (tentative) 2020
  • BS Unitited States Military 2010

Biography

Brandon came to the University after retiring from the Military Police Corps. He is married and has a three-year-old daughter, Marian, and an infant son, Teddy. He enjoys spending time in the outdoors, particularly when he has a camera with him.. Brandon is developing a statistical model to predict the stop-over locations monarch butterflies use on their fall migration to Mexico.

Project Completion Date
Development of predictive models for identifying priority Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Coastal North America migratory stopover areas used by Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus plexippus). December 2020
Presentations Presentation Date
Boxler, B., C.S. Loftin, and W.Sutton. 2019. Monitoring Monarch Butterfly Migration: Roost Sites on the Southward Journey. presentation in the Friends of Edith Marion Patch Randall Alford Memorial Lecture, 2 November, University of Maine, Orono, ME. November 2019
Boxler, B., C.S. Loftin, and W.B. Sutton. 2019. Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) migration roost site selection and viability: App demonstration and hands-on activity. Dexter High School, Dexter Maine. 2 may 2019. May 2019
Boxler, B., C.S. Loftin, and W.B. Sutton. 2019. Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) migration roost site selection and viability. Presentation at the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies annual meeting, 14-16 April, Groton, CT. April 2019
Boxler, B., C.S. Loftin, and W.B. Sutton. 2018. Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) roost site selection and viability during fall migration east of the Appalachian Mountains. Poster presentation, 2018 Student Conference on Conservation Science-New York, The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, 24-26 October. New York, New York. October 2018
Technical Publications Publication Date
Boxler, B., and C. Loftin. Monarch Model Validator web page. https://umaine.edu/mainecoopunit/monarch-model-validator/ August 2019