Adam C. Smith

Adam C. Smith is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Biology at Carleton University and a quantitative ecologist with the Canadian Wildlife Service. He specializes in analyzing bird population trends using Bayesian statistical models and large-scale monitoring data from programs like the North American Breeding Bird Survey and eBird.

His research examines:

• Drivers of avian population changes
• Integration of diverse monitoring datasets
• Spatially explicit population modeling
• Urban development impacts on bird communities

Smith co-authored the landmark study documenting a 29% decline in North American bird populations since 1970. He maintains active GitHub repositories for open-source ecological analysis tools and mentors students in quantitative methods.