Sarah Converse

  • Associate Professor/Leader
  • Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
    • 206-685-2315
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    • Sarah J. Converse

    • Associate Professor/Leader
    • Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

    Research areas

    B.S., Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University
    M.S., Natural Resource Sciences, University of Nebraska
    Ph.D., Wildlife Biology, Colorado State University

    Research areas: Quantitative population ecology, demographic estimation and modeling, spatial demography, movement ecology, conservation biology, decision analysis

    Autumn 2026 Admissions: Sarah Converse is not currently accepting graduate students for the 2026-27 school year but interested students should check her website for the most up-to-date information. 

     

    Courses

    • QERM 514 | Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Data (4) - Winter in odd numbered years
    • FISH/SEFS 557 | Demographic Estimation and Modeling (4) - Winter in even numbered years

    Selected publications

    Runge MC, SJ Converse, JE Lyons, and DR Smith, editors. 2020. Structured decision making: case studies in natural resource management. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

    Gerber BD, SJ Converse, E Muths, HJ Crockett, BA Mosher, and LL Bailey. 2018. Identifying species conservation strategies to reduce disease-associated declines. Conservation Letters 11:1-10.

    Lunn NJ, S Servanty, EV Regehr, SJ Converse, E Richardson, and I Stirling. 2016. Demography of an apex predator at the edge of its range – impacts of changing sea ice on polar bears in Hudson Bay. Ecological Applications 26:1302-1320.

    Royle JA and SJ Converse. 2014. Hierarchical spatial capture-recapture models: modeling population density from replicated capture-recapture experiments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5:37-43.

    Converse SJ, CT Moore, MJ Folk, and MC Runge. 2013. A matter of tradeoffs: reintroduction as a multiple objective decision. Journal of Wildlife Management 77:1145-1156.

    Mueller T, RB O’Hara, SJ Converse, RP Urbanek, and WF Fagan. 2013. Leadership and spatial learning of migratory performance. Science 341:999-1002.