As CSP’s first senior research fellow, Tom will help guide our work, catalyze partnerships, design new tools, and envision the future of conservation science.
Dr. Tom Hobbs brings CSP 35 years of experience in research and specializes in the use of models to understand ecological processes — particularly those that impact the population and community ecology of large mammals. His demographic models are now widely used to support management and policy in North America and Europe. His book (coauthored with Mevin Hooten), Bayesian Modeling: a Statistical Primer for Ecologists, was recently published by the Princeton University Press. It presents the statistical principles behind Bayesian modeling and describes how to apply them to research, teaching, policy, and management.
Prior to joining the faculty at Colorado State in 2001, Tom spent 20 years as a research scientist at the Colorado Division of Wildlife. A member of the Editorial Board of Ecological Applications, he has also served as a rotating program director in the Population and Community Ecology Cluster of the Division of Environmental Biology at the National Science Foundation. He has a degree in biology from Grinnell College and an M.S. and Ph.D. in wildlife ecology from Colorado State University.