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Jennifer Sheldon

Present Title / Contact Information

Lead Project Scientist and Vice President, Yellowstone Ecological Research Center, 2048 Analysis Dr., Bozeman, MT 59718
Phone: 406-556-1414; fax: 406-556-1405; email: sheldon [at] yellowstoneresearch [dot] org

Education
1988   M.S. in Zoology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1981   B.S. in Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

Professional Profile
Jennifer Sheldon is an ecologist with Yellowstone Ecological Research Center (YERC), specializing in terrestrial ecology and canid behavioral ecology. Her current research emphasis includes development of spatial models of carnivore competitive interactions, as well as the demography of coyotes during gray wolf recolonization in Yellowstone. She is a founding board member of YERC, and has been instrumental in the development of YERC’s Field Station in Cooke City, Montana.

Selected publications

• Robert L. Crabtree, Paul R. Moorcroft, Sassan S. Saatchi, Shengli Huang, Christopher Potter, J. W. Sheldon, and Kerry Q. Halligan. 2006. Forecasting in the Yellowstone Ecosystem: Development of Remotely-Sensed Estimates of Vegetation 3-D Structure, and Disturbance Dynamics for Initializing, Constraining and Testing Terrestrial Biosphere Models. Poster.
• Crabtree, R. L. and J. W. Sheldon. 2006. Introduction for The Voice of the Coyote. J. Frank Dobie. Bison Books. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. Pp. v – viii.
• Crabtree, R. L. and J. W. Sheldon. 1999. The ecological role of coyotes on Yellowstone’s Northern Range. Yellowstone Science 7(2): 15-23.
• Crabtree, R. L. and J. W. Sheldon. 1999. Coyotes and canid coexistence in Yellowstone. Carnivores in Ecosystems: the Yellowstone Experience. T. W. Clark, A. P. Curlee, S. C. Minta and P. M. Karieva. New Haven, Yale University Press: pp. 126-163.
• Crabtree, R. L. and J. W. Sheldon. 1996. Summary of the interactions of gray wolves and coyotes on Yellowstone’s Northern Range. Special Report to Yellowstone National Park, Mammoth, WY.
• Sheldon, J. W. 1992. Wild Dogs: The Natural History of the Nondomestic Canidae. Academic Press, New York.
• Sheldon, J.W. and Crabtree, R.L. 2005. “Coyotes and Carnivore Competition in Yellowstone National Park”. Poster, 8 th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Oct. 17-19, 2005. Yellowstone National Park, Mammoth, WY.

Recent Professional Training

• May 2007. Modeling patterns and dynamics of species occurrence. Workshop, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Instructor: Darryl MacKenzie.
• August 2006. Information-Theoretic Methods workshop. Instructor: David Anderson
• June 2005. Program MARK Workshop, June 5-10, 2005. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Instructors: Gary White, David Anderson, Ken Burnham.

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