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Michael Wethington, PhD

Quantitative Ecologist at the Biodiversity Research Institute — building computational tools for ecology, remote sensing, and conservation.

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About Me

My research combines remote sensing, statistical modeling, and field ecology to understand how animals move through and respond to changing environments. My work takes me from Antarctica to East Africa to the Northwest Atlantic. I build quantitative frameworks that link environmental drivers to species distributions, movements, and demographics — ultimately to inform conservation and management.

I work across taxa, ecosystems, and methodological traditions:

  • Animal movement ecology & bio-logging (GPS, Motus, satellite telemetry)
  • Species distribution modeling & population ecology
  • Bayesian spatial analysis & multispecies occupancy modeling
  • Remote sensing for habitat characterization & environmental monitoring
  • Antarctic ecology & sea ice–penguin dynamics
  • Bioacoustics & automated acoustic monitoring of Antarctic taxa
  • Collision risk modeling for offshore wind energy
  • Machine learning for image classification & automated detection
  • Biodiversity monitoring & conservation planning

Tech Stack

R Python SQL QGIS ArcGIS Google Earth Engine Stan NIMBLE tidyverse terra sf Adobe Illustrator


Research Interests

  • Species distribution modeling & population ecology
  • Animal movement ecology & automated tracking networks (Motus)
  • Machine learning for remote sensing & image classification
  • Antarctic sea ice dynamics & penguin populations
  • Collision risk modeling for offshore wind energy
  • Biodiversity monitoring & multispecies occupancy modeling

Education

PhD Ecology & Evolution — Stony Brook University (Lynch Lab for Quantitative Ecology)

MA Remote Sensing & GIS — University of Minnesota


Field Credentials
  • FAA Certified UAS Pilot
  • Wilderness First Responder (NOLS/WMI)
  • STCW Certified (International Maritime Organization)
  • Leave No Trace Certified Instructor
  • CPR / AED / Epinephrine Auto-injector

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  1. BEE569_Project_Repo BEE569_Project_Repo Public

    Repo for Fall2020 Bayesian Project

  2. Bayesian2020 Bayesian2020 Public

    Forked from hlynch/Bayesian2020

    HTML

  3. ShinyViewer ShinyViewer Public

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  4. NSIDC-seaice NSIDC-seaice Public

    Forked from mdsumner/NSIDC-seaice

    NSIDC sea ice example to request GDAL enhancement

  5. SSM-I_PassiveMicrowave SSM-I_PassiveMicrowave Public

    Takes Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SSMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave .bin files via NSIDC (https://nsidc.org/data/NSIDC-0051/versions/1) and generates geotiff files using R packages

    R

  6. GSS554-Bayesian-Occupancy-Model GSS554-Bayesian-Occupancy-Model Public

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