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Name: Hepinstall, Jeffrey A.
Telephone: 706.583.8097; Fax: 706.542.8356
Email:
jhepinstall@warnell.uga.edu
Organization:
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602
Position at Coweeta LTER: Principal Investigator
Specialty:
Landscape
Ecology
Habitat: forested and urbanizing landscapes
Organism: birds, mammals
Core Area(s): population studies, disturbance patterns
Education:
B.A. Biology, Colgate University, 1990
M.S. Wildlife Ecology, University of Minnesota, 1992
Ph.D. Forest Resources, University of Maine, 2000
Appointments:
Assistant Professor, Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural
Resources, University of Georgia, August 2006 - Present
Faculty Research Associate, College of Urban Design and Planning,
University of Washington, September 2005 - July 2006
Faculty Research Associate, College of Forest Resources, University of
Washington, July 2002 - August 2005
Associate Scientist, Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of
Maine, May 1998 - June 2002
Publications (Five as examples of research foci):
Hepinstall, J.A., J.M. Marzluff, M. Alberti. In Press. Predicting land cover
change and avian community responses in rapidly urbanizing environments. Landscape Ecology.
Hepinstall,
J.A., J.M. Marzluff, M. Alberti. In Press. Predicting avian community responses
to increasing urbanization. Studies in
Avian Biology.
Hepinstall, J.A., J.M. Marzluff, M. Alberti. In
Press. Modeling the
responses of birds to predicted changes in land cover in an urbanizing region.
In J.J. Millspaugh and F.R. Thompson III, eds. Models for Planning Wildlife Conservation in Large Landscapes.
Elsevier Science.
Hepinstall, J.A., J.M. Marzluff, M.
Handcock, and Hurvitz, P. 2005. Incorporating utilization distributions into
the study of resource selection: dealing with spatial autocorrelation” in
Huzurbazar, S., editor, Resource Selection Methods and Applications.
Omnipress, Madison, WI.
Hepinstall, J.A., S.A.
Sader, and W.B. Krohn. 2002. Effects of niche width on the performance and
agreement of avian habitat models. In
J.M. Scott, P.J. Heglund, M. Morrison, M. Raphael, J. Haufler, and B. Wall,
eds. Predicting Species Occurrences:
Issues of scale and accuracy. Island Press. Covello, CA.
Synergistic Activities:
-Currently conducting a regional study of the effects of urbanization on
avian species diversity in northeastern Georgia funded by the Warnell
School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia
-Reviewer for National Science Foundation, Landscape Ecology, Ecological
Applications, Journal of Wildlife Management, Landscape and Urban
Planning, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, International
Journal of Remote Sensing, and Remote Sensing of Environment
-Exploring the land use history (1948-2007) and impacts of land use change
on depressional wetlands in the Dougherty Plain, Georgia, USA |