Jamie Sanderlin

Research Wildlife Biologist (Post-doctoral Fellow)

Phone: (928) 556-2182
Fax: (928) 556-2130
e-mail: jlsanderlin@fs.fed.us

Address:
Rocky Mountain Station
Southwest Forest Science Complex
2500 South Pine Knoll Drive
Flagstaff, AZ 86001

Education

• Ph.D., University of Georgia (Wildlife Ecology and Management), 2009
  (Dissertation: Integrated demographic modeling and estimation of the central Georgia, USA, black bear population)
• M. S., University of Georgia (Statistics), 2009
  (Thesis: Misidentification error in non-invasive genetic mark-recapture sampling: case study with the central Georgia black bear population)
• B. S., Purdue University (Ecology, Evolutionary, and Population Biology), 2002
  (Honors Thesis: Modeling patterns of dispersal in banner-tailed kangaroo rats, Dipodomys spectabilis, using capture-recapture data with the multi-strata, robust design)

Research Interests

• Population and community dynamics
• Bayesian statistics and hierarchical models
• Mark-recapture models with ecological applications
• Sampling design with respect to optimizing resources
• Modeling genotyping error with genetic mark-recapture studies

Current projects

• Fire effects on animal communities
• Species richness and community dynamics of Neotropical migratory birds in the Sky Islands of Arizona
• Developing Bayesian statistical models for demographic parameter estimation with genetic studies
• Cost-effective genetic sampling designs

Publications

• Sanderlin, J. S., N. Lazar, M. J. Conroy, and J. Reeves. Cost-efficient selection of a marker panel in genetic studies. Journal of Wildlife Management. Accepted. (Optimal-Marker-Panel program)
• Sanderlin, J. S., P. M. Waser, J. E. Hines, and J. D. Nichols. 2011. On valuing patches: estimating contributions to metapopulation growth with reverse-time capture-recapture modeling. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0885).
• Sanderlin, J. Skvarla, B. Faircloth, B. Shamblin, and M. Conroy. 2009. Tetranucleotide microsatellite loci from the black bear (Ursus americanus). Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 288-291.
• Jangid, K., M. Williams, A. Franzleubbers, J. Sanderlin, J. Reeves, M. Jenkins, D. Endale, D. Coleman, W. Whitman. 2008. Relative impacts of land-use, management intensity and fertilization upon soil microbial communities in agricultural systems. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40: 2843-2853.
• Skvarla, J., J. Nichols, J. Hines, and P. Waser. 2004. Modeling interpopulation dispersal by banner-tailed kangaroo rats. Ecology 85(10): 2737-2746.