Gabriel Karns

Gabriel Karns serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Environment and Natural Resources within The Ohio State University. He contributes to research and education at Ohio Sea Grant and Stone Lab, focusing on wildlife habitat management, energy development impacts, and human interaction with natural systems.

Research Interests:

• Energy infrastructure effects on wildlife habitats and landscape ecology
• Human dimensions of outdoor recreation and hunting
• Spatial ecology of ungulates in disturbed environments
• Population dynamics and harvest strategies for big game species

Recent Project Themes: Rural land-use changes due to shale gas development, early successional bird responses to pipeline corridors, elk reintroduction feasibility, deer management unit design, and technology's role in hunting participation trends.

Key Publications address species protection uncertainty, deer harvest spatial heterogeneity, and socio-technological drivers of hunting behavior.