News
8/2022: We are excited to announce that we have a new publication in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution! The article is titled Vegetation and vantage point influence visibility across diverse ecosystems: Implications for animal ecology. It is the first publication from Rachel Stein's dissertation! The article is open access so anyone can read it here: httpwww.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.911051/fulls://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.911051/full.
8/2022: Former undergraduate researcher Sarah Burgett has accepted a graduate position at University of Texas at Tyler! Congratulations Sarah!
4/2022: We are happy to announce that Rachel Stein received the Berklund Graduate Scholar Award, one award is presented to a graduate student in the College of Natural Resources every year to support their research. Congratulations Rachel!
3/2022: Rachel Stein received a travel grant from the American Society of Mammalogists to present her research on pygmy rabbit habitat selection at the annual conference this summer, congratulations!
2/2022: Congratulations to Rachel Stein on receiving a Graduate Research Grant from Phi Kappa Phi which will support her research studying habitat selection with respect to viewsheds in snowshoe hares!
12/2021: Undergraduate student Sarah Burgett has graduated! Congratulations Sarah!
08/2021: Cory Allred has accepted a graduate position at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where she will study bird habitat using remotely sensed data. Congratulations Cory!
05/2021: Congratulations to Rachel Stein on receiving summer internship funding from NASA Idaho Space Grant Consortium to test the influence of viewsheds on habitat selection by pygmy rabbits this summer!
05/2021: Congratulations to Cory Allred and Sacha Wells - undergraduates who are graduating this month!
04/2021: Congratulations to Sarah Burgett on receiving a SURF Grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research for her project - Unexpected properties of habitat altered by ecosystem engineers: A pygmy rabbit case study.
04/2021: Congratulations to Sacha Wells who is the Student Winner of the Feature Film category at the University of Idaho Fish and Wildlife Film Festival for her film - Sagebrush Steppe: A Beautiful Secret.
Media
Sagebrush Steppe: A Beautiful Secret
By: Sacha Wells
Winner: Student Feature Film, University of Idaho Fish and Wildlife Film Festival
By: Sacha Wells
Winner: Student Feature Film, University of Idaho Fish and Wildlife Film Festival
viewshed ecology publications
Stein, R.M., Lecigne, B., Eitel, J.U.H., Johnson, T.R., McGowan, C., Rachlow, J.L. 2022. Vegetation and vantage point influence visibility across diverse ecosystems: Implications for animal ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.911051/full)
Lecigne, B., Eitel, J.U.H., and Rachlow, J.L. 2020. viewshed3d: an R package for quantifying 3D visibility in the environment using terrestrial lidar data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. (https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13385)