Curtice Griffin

Affiliated Investigator

Professor of Environmental Conservation

Head of Department of Environmental Conservation

UMass Amherst

http://eco.umass.edu/people/faculty/griffin-curtice-r/ Website

Research Interests

Biodiversity and endangered species management
Wetlands ecology & mapping
Wildlife management

Education

M.S.: Wildlife Ecology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, 1978

B.S.: Biology, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, 1974

Ph.D.: Wildlife Ecology, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, 1985

Experience

Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1993 to 1999

Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1988 to 1993

Professor, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1999 to present

Projects

Forecasting songbird vulnerabilities to climate change A climate dependent metapopulation model of marbled salamanders (Ambystoma opacum) in western Massachusetts.Designing Sustainable Landscapes (DSL)

Mechanisms for species responses to climate change: Are there biological thresholds?

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Publications

Final Report: Examining the mechanisms of species responses to climate change: Are there biological thresholds?DSL in Nature's Network Designing Sustainable Landscapes Datasets

Website: Designing sustainable landscapes project DSL in Connect the Connecticut Accuracy of Aerial Photography for Locating Seasonal (Vernal) Pools in Massachusetts Habitat Use by Foraging Northern Harriers on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts A Multiscale Landscape Approach to Predicting Bird and Moth Rarity Hotspots in a Threatened Pitch Pine-Scrub Oak Community

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