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

Staff Member

Kristin Bondo

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Email: kkb5775@psu.edu

Research Publications Publication Date
Bondo, K.J., D. Montecino-Latorre, L. Williams, M. Helwig, K. Duren, M. Hutchinson, W.D. Walter. 2023. Spatial modeling of two mosquito vectors of West Nile virus using integrated nested Laplace approximations. Ecosphere 14(1): e4346. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4346

| Abstract | Download 		January 2023
Bondo, K.J., C.S. Rosenberry, D. Stainbrook, W.D. Walter. Comparing risk of chronic wasting disease occurrence using Bayesian hierarchical spatial models and different surveillance types. Ecological Modeling 493:110756. | Abstract May 2024
Project Completion Date
RWO 90: A range wide assessment of the influence of landscape and environmental change on lesser prairie-chickens December 2017
Modeling the risk of West Nile virus to ruffed grouse populations June 2022
Surveillance Optimization Project for Chronic Wasting Disease: Streamlining a Web Application for Disease Visualization and Data-Driven Decisions August 2022
Regional assessment of cause-specific mortality in white-tailed deer populations, and influence of landscape attributes and deer density on CWD spread through juvenile deer dispersal and seasonal movements August 2021
Presentations Presentation Date
Bondo, K.J., D. Stainbrook, C.S. Rosenberry, and W.D. Walter. 2023. Comparing the spatial risk of chronic wasting disease in roadkill and hunter harvest white-tailed deer using Bayesian hierarchical models. The 30th Annual Conference of the Wildlife Society, Louisville, KY, 5-9 November 2023. November 2023
Bondo, K.J., D. Stainbrook, C.S. Rosenberry, and W.D. Walter. 2023. Comparing the spatial risk of chronic wasting disease in roadkill and hunter harvest white-tailed deer using Bayesian hierarchical models. 71st Annual International Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association, Athens, GA, 29 July-4 August 2023. August 2023
Bondo, K.J. and W.D Walter. Acquiring large scale spatial data for use in Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) models. 6- 10 November 2022, The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA. November 2022
Bondo, K., M. Whitson, C. Boal, M. Peterson, B. Simpson, C. Hagen, and B. Grisham. 2019. Parasitological survey of lesser prairie-chickens in Texas and New Mexico. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Montgomery, TX, 20-23 February 2019 February 2019
Bondo, K. L. Williams, and W.D. Walter. 2022. Using mosquito surveillance to inform risk of West Nile virus exposure to ruffed grouse populations in Pennsylvania. Wildlife Disease Association Meeting, Madison, WI, 23-29 July 2022. July 2022
Type Citation Publication Date
Software Release Bondo, K.J., D. Montecino-Latorre, W.D. Walter. Workflow to acquire and process large spatial data and build complex models. Version 1.0.0: U.S. Geological Survey software release. Reston, Va. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ONHXN3 October 2022
Software Release Bondo, K.J. and W.D. Walter. 2023. Comparing datasets by surveillance method using spatial models. Version 1.0.0: U.S. Geological Survey software release. Reston, VA. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9348BA8 February 2023