Professor · Assoc. Director of Research & Graduate Education · School of Natural Resources · UNL
I study how people interact with fish, wildlife, and other natural resources—and how those interactions shape conservation policy and management. My research focuses on the decisions behind who hunts, fishes, and forages, how participation changes over time, and what those patterns mean for the agencies responsible for managing public resources.
I combine survey science, quantitative methods, and reproducible data analysis to study participation, behavior, harvest, and decision-making. Much of this work involves creel and angler surveys, capture–recapture methods, recruitment, retention, and reactivation (R3), and the development of open-source tools in R for conservation research and management.
I am a Professor in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where I also help lead the school’s research enterprise and graduate programs. I teach undergraduate courses in human dimensions and natural resource policy, as well as graduate courses in R programming, data visualization, and reproducible science.
This site brings together my blog—mostly notes on R, data analysis, and quantitative methods—the software and dashboards developed by my lab, and my curriculum vitae. For information about lab members, current projects, and opportunities to join the group, visit humandimensions.unl.edu.