People

• Robert Crabtree

• Jennifer Sheldon

• Shengli Huang

• Dan Weiss

• Deanna Tarum

• Junfeng Lu

• Kezia Manlove

• James Irvine

• Scott Frazier

• Katie Gibson

• Scott Bischke

• Shuang Li

• Alice Hecht

• Arick Zachman

• Russell Callahan

• Sebastian Schnobrich

• Rylie Shade

• Cotton Real Bird

• Zachary Constant

Jennifer Sheldon

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

• Almberg, E.S., Cross, P.C., Mech, L.D., Smith, D.W., Sheldon, J.W., and Crabtree, R.L. 2011. Infectious Diseases in Yellowstone’s Canid Community. Yellowstone Science 19(2): 16-24.

• P. J. White, Claire N. Gower, Troy L. Davis, Jennifer W. Sheldon, and Jesse R. White. 2011 (in press). Group dynamics of Yellowstone pronghorn. Journal of Mammalogy.

• Sheldon J. W. and R. L. Crabtree. 2011 (in press). Monitoring and modeling environmental change in Protected Areas: Integration of focal species populations and remote sensing. Chapter 21 in Remote Sensing of Protected Lands, Y.Q. Wang, (ed.). Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL

• Sheldon, J.W., R.L. Crabtree, C.S. Potter, B. Winkelman, and D. Weiss. 2011 (in press).  “Snow Dynamics and Mountain Fox (Vulpes vulpes macroura) in Yellowstone: Incorporating Climate in Species-Habitat Models.” The 10th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. William D. Ruckelshaus Institute of Environment and Natural Resources. University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

• Sheldon, J. W., Gregory Reed, A. Cheyenne Burnett,   Kevin Li , and Robert L. Crabtree. 2009. Coyote, Canis latrans,predation on a Bison, Bison bison, calf in Yellowstone National Park. Canadian Field Naturalist. 123(3): 260-261.

• Crabtree, R. L., Potter, C., Mullen, R., Sheldon, J.W., Huang, S., Harmsen, J., Rodman, A., Jean, C. 2009. A modeling and spatio-temporal analysis framework for monitoring environmental change using NPP as an ecosystem indicator. Remote Sensing of Environment 113: 1486-1496.

• Almberg, A., Mech, L.D., Smith, D.W., Sheldon, J.W., Crabtree, R.L. 2009. . A Serological Survey of Infectious Disease in Yellowstone National Park’s Canid Community. PLoS ONE 4(9): e7042. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007042 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007042

• Robert L. Crabtree, Paul R. Moorcroft, Sassan S. Saatchi, Shengli Huang, Christopher Potter, J. W. Sheldon, Oren L. Gersten 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.  NASA 2006 Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem (CEE) Science Poster Session.

• 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

• August 2010 R-course: Data Exploration, GLM, model selection and validation. Alain Zuur, Elena Ieno, Instructors

• ESRI ArcGIS I, II, III, Spatial Analyst,  2009

• 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.