The Animal Movement and Spatial Ecology Lab (AMSEL) in the Department of Environmental Biology at SUNY-ESF works on fundamental questions of how animals navigate, survive, and persist in complex and dynamic environments. Our approach straddles theory, methodological innovation, the deep exploration of empirical data, and a diversity of knowledge modes with an eye on human-wildlife interactions, conservation, and stewardship.
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The world is incredibly complex and dynamic. This is true, too, for the particular biotic and abiotic environments that all animals exist in. Food resources alone can be patchy or cryptic, can appear and disappear, sometimes even run around themselves. Yet, animals manage (mainly) to navigate, survive, reproduce, and persist. At the broadest level, our research addresses the question: How!?…
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Elie Gurarie is an Assistant Professor at SUNY College of Environmental and Forest Sciences in the Department of Environmental Biology.
For a cv that was almost surely up-to-date once upon a time, click here. My Google Profile Page has links to peer-reviewed publications.
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Education
- 2008 - Ph.D. in Quantitive Ecology and Resource Management at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
- 2000 - Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondie (M.S. equivalent) in Environmental Geosciences at the Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement in Marseille, France
- 1998 - B.S./B.A. Physics and Literature at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH.