Dr. Gina Himes Boor

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Quantitative Ecologist, Center for Wildlife Studies

Assistant Research Professor, Montana State University

Ph.D. Biology, Montana State University

Email: ghimesboor@gmail.com

Gina is a conservation biologist and applied ecologist. Her research focuses on developing models to better understand the demographic and spatial-use patterns that contribute to the decline and recovery of imperiled species. She uses a diverse set of quantitative tools, from hierarchical to individual-based modeling, to improve species management in the face of uncertainty and limited data. She has worked on a wide range of taxa including marine and terrestrial mammals, birds, insects, fish, and plants.

Some of her current research includes estimating survival and fecundity of Cook Inlet beluga whales using a Bayesian state-space mark-recapture model and photo-ID data, developing spatially explicit individual-based models for red-cockaded woodpeckers and St. Francis satyr butterflies, and assessing meta-population dynamics of Venus flytrap.