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Jeffrey Kerby
Dickey Center Visiting Arctic FellowNeukom '16 Post-doctoral Fellow
Dickey Center Visiting Arctic Fellow
Neukom '16 Post-doctoral Fellow
I'm interested in how life history traits mediate species interactions, particularly in highly seasonal and rapidly changing environments of the Arctic and alpine regions of Africa. This research touches on elements of community, landscape, and behavioral ecology, and has recently focused on gelada monkeys and large Arctic herbivores. In conjunction with this research, I'm developing and testing applications for near-surface remote sensing platforms and the data they can generate. Themes include long-term quantitative time lapse photography, non-invasive morphometric scanning, and the deployment of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) designed for mapping and animal censuses in remote areas.
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I am also a Neukom Institute for Computational Science Post-doctoral Fellow '16 advised by Environmental Studies Professor Ross Virginia. My research plans blend classical ecological perspectives with emerging methods in physical computing and quantitative photography to address how and why abiotic change in these seasonal environments affects phenology, demography, and trophic dynamics.
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Education:
PhD Candidate, Penn State University, 2015
BS, University of Richmond, 2007
Selected publications
Venkataraman V.V., Kerby J., Fashing P.J., Nguyen N., Ashenafi Z.T. (accepted).Solitary Ethiopian wolves increase predation success on rodents when amonggrazing monkey herds. Journal of Mammalogy.Fashing, P., Nguyen, N., Venkataraman, V. & Kerby, J. (2014) Gelada feeding ecologyin an intact ecosystem at Guassa, Ethiopia: Variability over time and implicationsfor theropith and hominin dietary evolution. American Journal of PhysicalAnthropology, 155, 1-16.
Kerby, J. & Post, E. (2013) Advancing plant phenology and reduced herbivoreproduction in a terrestrial system associated with sea ice decline. NatureCommunications, 4, 2514.
Post, E., Bhatt, U., Bitz, C., Brodie, J., Fulton, T., Hebblewhite, M., Kerby, J, Kutz, S.,Stirling, I., Walker, D. (2013) Ecological consequences of sea-ice decline.Science, 341, 519-524.
Kerby, J. & Post, E. (2013). Capital and income breeding traits differentiate trophicmatch-mismatch dynamics in large herbivores. Philosophical Transactions ofthe Royal Society B., 386,1624.
Kerby, J. & Post, E. (2013). Reproductive phenology of large mammals. In:Phenology: An Integrative Environmental Science. Kluwer AcademicPublishers, ed: Schwartz, M. D.
Kerby, J., Wilmers, C., Post, E. (2012) Climate change, phenology, and the nature ofconsumer-resource interactions: Advancing the Match/Mismatch Hypothesis.Trait Mediated Indirect Interactions, Cambridge University Press, eds:Ohgushi, T., Schmitz, O., Holt. R.
Olsen, K., Mueller, T., Kerby, J., Bolortsetseg, S., Leimgruber, P., Nicolson, C., Fuller,T. (2011). Death by a thousand huts: Effects of household presence on densityand distribution of Mongolian Gazelles. Conservation Letters, 4, 304-312.
Fashing, P., Nguyen, N., Barry, T., Goodale, C., Burke, R., Jones, S., Kerby, J., Lee, L.,Nurmi, N., Venkataraman, V. (2010). Death among geladas (Theropithecusgelada): A broader perspective on mummified infants and primate thanatology.American Journal of Primatology, 73, 405-409.
