Catherine Jarnevich - USGS

Invasive Species Science

Ecologist

Duty Station:
Fort Collins Science Center
2150 Centre Ave
Bldg C
Fort Collins, CO 80526

Phone: 970-226-9439
Fax: 970.226.9230
Email: jarnevichc@usgs.gov

Current Research

• Developing Ecological Forecasting Models
• Documenting, Mapping, and Predicting Invasive Species Using the Fort Collins Science Center's RAM (Resource for Advanced Modeling)

Data

Total Records:1

• Data for giant constrictors—Biological management profiles and an establishment risk assessment for nine large species of pythons, anacondas, and the boa constrictor

Publications

Total Records:56

• High throughput computing: A solution for scientific analysis
• Balancing energy development and conservation: A method utilizing species distribution models
• Federated or cached searches: providing expected performance from multiple invasive species databases
• How will climate change affect the potential distribution of Eurasian Tree Sparrows Passer montanus in North America?
• Bounding species distribution models
• Challenges of predicting the potential distribution of a slow-spreading invader: a habitat suitability map for an invasive riparian tree
• Improving national-scale invasion maps: Tamarisk in the western United States
• Challenges in identifying sites climatically matched to the native ranges of animal invaders
• Using phenology in predicting the northward expansion of the Africanized honey bee
• Modeling the human invader in the United States
• From Points to Forecasts: Predicting Invasive Species Habitat Suitability in the Near Term
• Improving and integrating data on invasive species collected by citizen scientists
• Distribution and abundance of saltcedar and Russian olive in the western United States
• Ensemble habitat mapping of invasive plant species
• Forecasting weed distributions using climate data: A GIS early warning tool
• Bringing modeling to the masses: A web based system to predict potential species distributions
• Near term climate projections for invasive species distributions
• Risk assessment of invasive species
• Using satellite-based phenology data for invasive weed species habitat modeling
• NASA and USGS invest in invasive species modeling to evaluate habitat for Africanized Honey Bees
• Evaluation of Ensemble Habitat Mapping to support National Park Service decisions on the fire management and invasive plant species control
• Temporal management of invasive species
• Invasive species information networks: Collaboration at multiple scales for prevention, early detection, and rapid response to invasive species
• Results from creating a global system for invasive species data sharing
• Potential habitat modeling for a new climate
• What parts of the US mainland are climatically suitable for invasive alien pythons spreading from Everglades National Park?
• Iterative modeling for invasive species
• Short term climate projections for species distributions
• Advanced species modeling
• Creating a cyberinfrastructure for citizen science: Proper planning can go a long way
• The myth of plant species saturation
• Vision of a cyberinfrastructure for nonnative, invasive species management
• Rejoinder to Harrison (2008): “The Myth of Plant Species Saturation”
• Advanced species modeling handout: modeling diverse taxa at diverse resolutions using various technologies
• A national scale citizen science program for invasive species
• Modelling invasion for a habitat generalist and a specialist plant species
• Can citizen scientists think spatially: Evaluating the publics' ability to understand and use an online GIS map application for invasive species
• Climate matching as a tool for predicting potential North American spread of Brown Treesnakes
• Invasive species management and research using GIS
• Forest legacies, climate change, altered disturbance regimes, invasive species, and water
• A global organism detection and monitoring system for non-native species
• The potential for harvesting non-native species data collected by citizen scientists
• Bringing modeling to the masses: Online tools for invasive species management
• Balancing data sharing requirements for analyses with data sensitivity
• Creating a cyberinfrasturcture to involve volunteer groups in citizen science
• A simple framework for an invasive species early warning system for counties
• The art and science of weed mapping
• Plant species invasions along the latitudinal gradient in the United States: Reply
• Evaluating dominance as a component of non-native species invasions
• Scale and plant invasions: A theory of biotic acceptance
• Show me the numbers: What data currently exist for non-native species in the USA?
• Filling in the gaps: modelling native species richness and invasions using spatially incomplete data
• A tamarisk habitat suitability map for the continental United States
• Partnerships for Science: A “Virtual” Institute for Invasive Species Research and Management
• Life-history habitat matching in invading non-native plant species
• Improving biodiversity knowledge with dataset synergy: a case study of non-native plants in Colorado