General Research Interests

My main areas of interest are in spatial analysis, ecology and GIS:

landscape ecology
grizzly bears movement
modeling wildlife habitat

My CV is located here in PDF

MSc Research

My MSc. research is based on evaluating spatial-temporal patterns of grizzly bear habitat use. It is centered around two main areas of interest:

1) spatial-temporal movements of individual grizzly bears in relation to habitat selection and protected areas

2) using local spatial statistics to evaluate the relative predictive success of resource selection functions (RSFs)

Presentations

Smulders, M., and Nelson, T. (2008). Quantifying the impacts of landscape disturbance on the spatial pattern of grizzly bear habitat use. Spatial Knowledge and Information. Feb. 15-17; Fernie, BC.

Papers in progress

Smulders, M., Nelson, T., Nielsen, S., Stenhouse, G., Jelinski, D., and Graham, K. (2008) Influence of habitat, protected areas, and dependent offspring on spatial-temporal patterns of female grizzly bear home ranges.