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

Kate Huber is a PhD student with the Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit working under Dr. Terri Donovan. Her work currently incorporates machine learning and Dr. Donovan’s R package AMMonitor to improve passive acoustic monitoring for the invasive Cuban treefrog. She is very interested in the many applications of data science in wildlife management and is in development of a new R package for structured decision making. Having worked with Dr. Donovan prior to beginning her graduate program, Kate helped to manage wildlife monitoring databases across the Northeast and contributed to the AMMonitor package’s latest release. She holds a master’s degree in Applied Ecology from the University of East Anglia, where her research centered on conservation of the Cascade Red Fox and other carnivores in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest.