Maine Staff Member
Tristan Nuñez
Assistant Unit Leader
Email: tnunez@usgs.gov
Faculty Email: tristan.nunez@maine.edu
Areas of Expertise
AI/Machine Learning, Anthropogenic Impacts, Behavioral Ecology, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ecological Services, Forest Ecology, GIS/Spatial Analysis, Habitat Management, Landscape Ecology, Movement Ecology, Policy, Remote Sensing, Resilience, Species Distribution Modeling, Statistics and Modelling, T&E Species Management, Wildlife Management
Taxon Groups Studied
Carnivores, Furbearers, Nongame Fish/Wildlife, Small Mammals, Songbirds, Ungulates, Water/Marsh Birds, Waterfowl
| Research Publications | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Kauffman, M.J. and others. Ungulate Migrations of the Western United States. USGS Scientific Investigations Report | October 2020 |
| Project | Completion Date |
|---|---|
| Mapping and conserving big game migration corridors in Wyoming and other western states | December 2025 |
| Presentations | Presentation Date |
|---|---|
| Nuñez, T., M. Hurley, J. Fattebert, J. Merkle, A. Ortega, H. Sawyer, T. Graves, M. Kauffman. 2020. Predicting migration corridors: using maximum likelihood to fit corridor models to movement data. 27<sup>th</sup> Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society. Louisville, KY, Sept. 27 – Oct. 1, 2020 | September 2020 |
| Nuñez, T., M. Hurley, J. Fattebert, J. Merkle, A. Ortega, H. Sawyer, M. Kauffman. 2020. Predicting migration corridors: using maximum likelihood to fit corridor models to movement data. 2020 North America Congress for Conservation Biology. Denver, Colorado, July 26-31, 2020. | July 2020 |
| Technical Publications | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Kauffman, M.J. and others. Ungulate Migrations of the Western United States. USGS Scientific Investigations Report | Download | April 2020 |