Lisanne Petracca
Assistant Professor Of Carnivore Ecology at Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute-Texas A&M University Kingsville
Kingsville, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLisanne Petracca is an applied quantitative ecologist and Assistant Professor of Carnivore Ecology with nine years of experience developing spatially explicit models to inform large-carnivore conservation and management. She builds state-space and integrated population models that fuse telemetry, pack counts, and survey data to estimate survival, recruitment, and dispersal, most recently leading the wolf recovery modeling effort for Washington state in collaboration with the state wildlife agency. Before academia she spent a decade as a quantitative scientist with Panthera working on the spatial ecology of jaguars and lions, designing field-informed analytical workflows from occupancy and RSFs to connectivity and survival analyses. Her work blends Bayesian and maximum likelihood approaches and emphasizes simulation-based evaluation of management scenarios to guide recovery goals. Based in Kingsville, Texas, she pairs rigorous statistical skills with hands-on field program design and international conservation experience, from corridor mapping in Belize to community-based monitoring. An unexpected thread across her career is curriculum and capacity building—she has developed training and educational programs for field teams and even classroom science curricula in remote Pacific islands.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Environmental Management, Masters, Environmental Management at Duke UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology at State University of New York College of Environmental Science and ForestryBachelor of Science, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology, Bachelor of Science, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology at Tufts University
Spanish, marshalleseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
lisannepetracca/GeospatialAnalysisinR
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:71 commits, 34 pushes in 1 month
lisannepetracca/Puffins
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:44 commits, 41 pushes in 8 months
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