Sarah Converse
- Associate Professor/Leader
- Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
- 206-685-2315
Sarah J. Converse
- Associate Professor/Leader
- Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
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
Sarah J. Converse is not currently accepting graduate students.
Courses
- QERM 514 | Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Data (4) - Winter in odd numbered years
- SEFS 590 | Advanced Population Analysis (4) - Winter in even numbered years
Selected publications
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. Link
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. Link
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. Link
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. Link
Mueller T, RB O’Hara, SJ Converse, RP Urbanek, and WF Fagan. 2013. Leadership and spatial learning of migratory performance. Science 341:999-1002. Link