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His role
Gregory Larsen, Ph.D., is a biologist with the National Park Service's Southeast Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network, in Juneau, where he has worked since 2024. He monitors sea otter, pinniped and seabird populations.
Training and skills
- Education: Ph.D. in Marine Science & Conservation, Duke University, 2022; B.A. in Biology, Middlebury College, 2010.
- Interests: wildlife biology, marine ecology, population monitoring, habitat ecology, remote sensing, drones and conservation technology.
- Drone pilot: Part 107-certified since 2017, with 1000+ flights and 200+ hours in the air.
Career
| Years | Role |
|---|---|
| 2024–present | Biologist, NPS Southeast Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network, Juneau, Alaska |
| 2022–2024 | Postdoctoral fellow, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina |
| 2021 | Research technician, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Seward, Alaska |
| 2017–2020 | Graduate student researcher, Palmer Long Term Ecological Research program, Palmer Station, Antarctica |
| 2016–2022 | NSF Graduate Research Fellow, Duke University Marine Lab, Beaufort, North Carolina |
| 2015–2016 | Associate editor, Nature Publishing Group, New York |
| 2013–2014 | Field team manager, "Guppy Project," University of California Riverside, in Trinidad and Tobago |
| 2011–2012 | Herpetology field assistant, University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras, El Yunque, Puerto Rico |
| 2010–2016 | Biology technician, National Marine Mammal Laboratory — Pribilof Islands and Marmot Island, Alaska |
| 2008 | Wildlife technician, U.S. Forest Service, Dillon, Montana |
| 2006–2007 | Field technician, North East Ecological Services, Concord, New Hampshire |
Research
Much of his published work develops drones as tools for wildlife and ocean science:
- Petrel nests: with Varga and others (2024), drone monitoring and the geomorphology of southern giant petrel nests near Palmer Station — Polar Biology 47: 459–474.
- Pinnipeds: with Johnston (2024), the growth of drone surveillance in pinniped research — Mammal Review 54: 1–12; and with Seymour and others (2022), how drones reveal the spatial patterns of Alaskan pinniped species that share a site — Drone Systems and Applications 10(1): 235–255. His dissertation: Advancing Drone Methods for Pinniped Ecology and Management (Duke University, 2022), online.
- Ungulates: Baldwin and others (2023), camera traps and drone thermal surveys for density estimates of large, free-ranging ungulates — Animals 13(11): 1884.
- Antarctic ecosystems: Cimino and others (2022), long-term patterns in ecosystem phenology near Palmer Station from the perspective of the Adélie penguin — Ecosphere 14(2): e4417; and Bierlich and others (2022), the seasonal gain in body condition of foraging humpback whales along the western Antarctic Peninsula — Frontiers in Marine Science 9: 1036860.
- Seabirds: Bishop and others (2022), surveying cliff-nesting seabirds with uncrewed aircraft systems in the Gulf of Alaska — Polar Biology 45: 1703–1714.
- Ocean color: Gray and others (2022), robust ocean color measurements from drones — Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 20: 656–673; and Gray, Larsen and Johnston (2022), drones for biological oceanography — Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 20(7): 413–421.
Sources
Based on "Gregory Larsen - Biologist," Southeast Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network, National Park Service; a work of the United States government in the public domain. Contact details are left out.
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