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

Staff Member

Mr. Jonathan E. Katz

Jon Katz
Post Doc
Phone: (802) 656 - 3388
Email: jkatz3@uvm.edu

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Education

  • BA Middlebury College 2002

Biography

I moved to Vermont from Northern California, where I worked first on wildlife research projects and later as an environmental scientist monitoring water quality along the San Joaquin River.. Current research interests include using bioacoustic methods to monitor ecosystem dynamics and health.. I enjoy teaching all ages and nearly any scientific material. In the past I have taught 8th grade Earth Science and assisted with an undergraduate plant biology course. In the future I plan to teach courses at the university level that could include anything in the spectrum from general ecology to quantitative population modeling.

Research Publications Publication Date
Tierney, G., B. Mitchell;, A. Miller-Rushing, J. Katz, E. Denny, C. Brauer, T. Donovan, A. D. Richardson, M. Toomey, A. Kozlowski, J. Weltzin, K. Gerst, E. Sharron, O. Sonnentag, and F. Dieffenbach. 2013. Phenology monitoring protocol: Northeast Temperate Network. Natural Resource Report. NPS/NETN/NRR—2013/681. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado. Published Report-2197242. | Abstract | Download | Publisher Website July 2013
Katz, J., S. Hafner, and T. Donovan. 2016. Tools for automated acoustic monitoring within the R package monitoR. Bioacoustics. DOI:10.1080/09524622.2016.1138415 | Abstract | Publisher Website January 2016
Katz, J., S. Hafner, and T. Donovan. 2016. Assessment of Error Rates in Acoustic Monitoring with the R package monitoR. Bioacoustics. DOI:10.1080/09524622.2015.1133320 | Abstract | Publisher Website January 2016
Katz, J. and T. M. Donovan. 2017. AMModels: Adaptive Management Model Manager. R package version 0.1.2. February 2016
Donovan. T. M., C. Balantic, J. Katz, M. Massar, R. Knutson, K. Duh, P. W. Jones, K. Epstein, J. Lacasse-Roger, and J. Dias. 2021. Remote Ecological Monitoring with Smartphones and Tasker. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 12:163–173. | Abstract | Download | Publisher Website June 2021
Donovan, T.M. and J. E Katz. 2018. AMModels: An R package for storing models, data, and metadata to facilitate adaptive management. PLoS ONE 13(2): e0188966. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188966 | Abstract | Download | Publisher Website January 2018
Donovan, T., Brown, M., & Katz, J. 2015. Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit R Projects: R for Fledglings. Retrieved from https://www.uvm.edu/rsenr/vtcfwru/R/?Page=fledglings/fledglings.htm January 2015
Brauer, C., T. Donovan, R. Mickey, J. Katz, and B. Mitchell. 2016. A comparison of acoustic montoring methods for common anurans of the northeastern United States. Wildlife Society Bulletin 40:140-149. | Publisher Website February 2016
Project Completion Date
Effects of forest biomass energy production on northern forest wildlife and forest sustainability June 2017
Adaptive Management with AMMonitor August 2026
Acoustical Monitoring of Biodiversity and Phenology: A Pilot Wildlife Monitoring Partnership for Adaptive Management December 2012
Using Relational Databases to Improve Structured Decision Making for Natural Resource Management September 2012
Wildlife Monitoring in the U.S. National Parks with Cell Phones September 2023
Advancing Adaptive Management of Harvested Animals with R June 2019
Advancing Adaptive Management in the Riverside East Solar Energy Zone January 2020
Presentations Presentation Date
Katz, J. E., S. Hafner, and T. M. Donovan. 2014. Automated acoustic monitoring: reporting survey presence for a northeastern warbler . 70th Annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Portland, ME. April 2014
Katz, J. E., S. Hafner, and T. M. Donovan. 2014. monitor: an R package for automated acoustic monitoring, tested on two northeastern warblers. 70th Annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Portland, ME. April 2014
Balantic, C., T. M. Donovan, J. Katz, and M. Massar. Temporally-adaptive acoustic sampling to maximize detection across a suite of focal wildlife species with the R package AMMonitor. April 15-17, 2018. 74th Annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Burlington, Vermont. April 2018
Balantic, C., T. M. Donovan, J. Katz, and M. Massar. Machine learning mitigation of false positives in automated acoustic wildlife monitoring with the R package AMMonitor. April 15-17, 2018. 74th Annual Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Burlington, Vermont. April 2018
Technical Publications Publication Date
Tierney, G., B. Mitchell, A. Miller-Rushing, J. Katz, E. Denny, C. Brauer, T. Donovan, A. Richardson, M. Toomey, A. Kozlowski, J. Weltzin, K. Gerst, E. Sharron, O. Sonnentag, F. Dieffenbach . 2013. Phenology monitoring protocol: Northeast Temperate Network. Natural Resource Report. NPS/NETN/NRR—2013/681. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado. Published Report-2197242. July 2013
Donovan, T.M., J. Katz, C. Brauer, and B. Mitchell. 2014. Acoustical Monitoring of Biodiversity and Phenology: A Pilot Wildlife Monitoring Partnership for Adaptive Management. Final Report to the National Park Service. September 2014
Donovan, T. M., C. Brauer, J. Katz, and B. Mitchell. 2013. A pilot test for monitoring phenology with acoustic sensors. Final Report to the National Phenology Network. December 2013