Dr. Alexander Robillard

Instructor, Center for Wildlife Studies

Conservation Data Scientist, Conservation Science Partners

Ph.D. Marine, Estuarine and Environmental Science, University of Maryland

M.S. Biology, SUNY College at Oneonta

Email: RobillardA@si.edu

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Alex Robillard is currently a data scientist with Conservation Science Partners and a research collaborator at the Smithsonian OCIO Data Science Lab. Alex is broadly interested in the application of machine learning and bioinformatics to ecological questions and conservation issues. Alex’s past research has focused on endangered snakes, freshwater and marine turtles, in addition to Amazonian Fish.

Currently, he is developing machine learning techniques for bioacoustic detection of Cetaceans. Alex is an active member of the International Sea Turtles Society, the Northeastern Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation and the USFWS RCN Wood and Blandings turtle working group. Alex is also a certified open water diver, and has worked in Curaçao, Peru, Mexico and the eastern United States. Alex is also a certified Data Carpentries instructor.

    • Machine Learning for Ecologists

    • Gray, M., Barbour, N., Campbell, B., Robillard, A. J., Todd-Rodriguez, A., Xiao, H., & Plough, L. (2021). Ecolabels can improve public perception and farm profits for shellfish aquaculture. Aquaculture Environment Interactions, 13:13-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/aei00388

    • Robillard, A. J., Robinson, S., Bastiaans, E., & Vogler, D. (2019). Impacts of a highway on the population genetic structure of a threatened freshwater turtle (Glyptemys insculpta). Amphibian & Reptile Conservation, 13(2), 267-275. PDF

    • Robillard, A., and Johnson, B. (2015). Edge Effects on Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnakes Basking in Managed Habitat. Northeastern Naturalist, 22(1), 200-208.