معرفی
Ashley M. Long serves as Assistant Professor and Wildlife Extension Specialist in the Department of Renewable Natural Resources at Louisiana State University's College of Agriculture, conducting research from Room 315 of the RNR Building in Baton Rouge, LA.
Education:
- Ph.D. Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University (2014)
- M.S. Biological Sciences, Emporia State University (2010)
- B.S. Biology, Northland College (2006)
- A.S. Highland Community College (2005)
Research Focus: Dr. Long employs geospatial data, emerging technologies, and field experiments to investigate how vegetation management (understory thinning, prescribed burning), development (road construction, urbanization), and natural landscape alterations (wildfire) impact species distributions and wildlife population dynamics. Her work bridges theoretical ecology with practical conservation applications.
Current projects span migratory connectivity for songbirds using light-level geolocators, habitat relationships of wintering grassland birds, radar-based reduction of bird-aircraft collisions, and coastal prairie identification through remote sensing. She also examines forest management effects on bat activity, disease ecology in wild birds, and socio-ecological barriers to prescribed fire implementation on private lands, demonstrating interdisciplinary integration across wildlife management and spatial analysis.
