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New Zealand

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Ecologist & biogeographer | 25+ years experience | research proposal & manuscript writing | data analysis & presentation

Profile Summary

Career history: former university professor (full) and associate dean of research. I obtained my PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia (USA) in 1999. Research expertise: 1) animal tracking & remote monitoring; 2) biodiversity assessment; 3) ecological / spatial analysis, statistics & modelling: 4) terrestrial ecology & biogeography, with emphasis on island systems. Skills: 1) project design, funding, implementation, oversight & reporting; 2) grant, proposal, & manuscript writing / copy editing; 3) Geographic Information Systems; 4) environmental data analysis, modelling, visualisation & presentation; 5) extensive experience with ESRI ArcGIS /Pro, QGIS, GRASS GIS, R, Statistica, Stata, & SPSS.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
• ★ Biogeography
• ★ Biodiversity
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Zoology
• ☆ Wildlife Management
• ☆ Ornithology
• ☆ Animal Behavior/Ethology
• ☆ Marine Biology
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Predictive Modeling & Analytics
• ☆ Data Exploration
• ☆ Cluster Analysis
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Data Collection
• ☆ Data Management
• ☆ Data Manipulation
• ☆ Data Cleaning
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Applied Statistics
• ☆ Comparative Analysis
• ☆ Regression Analysis
• ☆ Multivariate Analysis
• ☆ Nonlinear Regression
• ☆ Correlation Analysis
• ☆ Survey Design
• ☆ Study Design
• ☆ Spatial Statistics
• ☆ Trend Analysis
• ☆ Climate Science
• ☆ Environmental Science
• ☆ Environmental Statistics
• ☆ Ecology
• ☆ Applied Ecology
• ☆ Conservation Biology
• ☆ Aquatic Ecology
• ☆ Taxonomy/Classification

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Copywriting, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Meta-Research, Feasibility Study, Technology Scouting, Fact Checking, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Image Processing, Image Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Product Development Product Evaluation

Work Experience

Environmental Programmes Advisor - Biodiversity & Biosecurity

Nelson City Council (Nelson, New Zealand)

January 2024 - November 2024

Professor (Full) | Associate Dean of Research | Associate Dean of Learning & Teaching

Fiji National University (Suva, Fiji)

February 2018 - August 2023

Senior Lecturer | Lecturer | Research Fellow

University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand)

October 1999 - August 2016

Contributing author

Addison, Wesley & Longman (California, USA)

January 1999 - August 1999

Fisheries Biologist (contractor), North Pacific Observer Program

Frank Orth & Associates | National Marine Fisheries Service (Alaska, USA)

February 1991 - August 1991

Volunteer, Agriculture Extension | Rural Aquaculture Promotion

United States Peace Corps (Liberia, West Africa)

July 1987 - August 1989

Education

Environmental Sciences

University of Virginia, Charlottesville - United States

January 1995 - January 1999

Environmental Sciences

University of Virginia, Charlottesville - United States

September 1991 - January 1995

Biology

College of William and Mary in Virginia, Williamsburg - United States

September 1981 - July 1985

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Todd Dennis, Riley Elliott, Jingjing Zhang, John Montgomery, Craig Radford (2023). Evaluating Behavioural Modelling Predictions in the Blue Shark (Prionace glauca) Enables Greater Insight on Habitat Use from Location only Argos Data . Research in Ecology.

(2023). Non-breeding behaviour in the Brown Skua (<i>Stercorarius antarcticus lonnbergi</i>): insights from modelling moulting patterns and stable isotope analyses . EMU-AUSTRAL ORNITHOLOGY.

(2021). Sex-specific foraging of an apex predator puts females at risk of human-wildlife conflict . JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY.

(2020). Advances in Detecting Ciguatoxins in Fish . TOXINS.

(2019). Effects of mis-alignment between dispersal traits and landscape structure on dispersal success in fragmented landscapes . ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE.

(2018). Assessing the performance of common landscape connectivity metrics using a virtual ecologist approach . ECOLOGICAL MODELLING.

(2018). Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements . SCIENCE.

(2018). Non-breeding distribution and activity patterns in a temperate population of brown skua . MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES.

(2018). Testing the feasibility of wireless sensor networks and the use of radio signal strength indicator to track the movements of wild animals . WILDLIFE RESEARCH.

(2017). An inexpensive satellite-download GPS receiver for wildlife: field trial on black swans . WILDLIFE RESEARCH.

(2017). Bimodal latitudinal species richness and high endemicity of razor clams (Mollusca) . JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY.

(2017). Can remote infrared cameras be used to differentiate small, sympatric mammal species? A case study of the black-tailed dusky antechinus, <i>Antechinus arktos</i> and co-occurring small mammals in southeast Queensland, Australia . PLOS ONE.

(2017). Effects of uncertain cost-surface specification on landscape connectivity measures . ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS.

(2017). Linking individual-based and statistical inferential models in movement ecology: A case study with black petrels (<i>Procellaria parkinsoni</i>) . ECOLOGICAL MODELLING.

(2017). On the need to consider multiphasic sensitivity of marine organisms to climate change: a case study of the Antarctic acorn barnacle . JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY.

(2017). Variability in the foraging range of <i>Eudyptula minor</i> across breeding sites in central New Zealand . NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY.

(2016). Characterising essential breeding habitat for whales informs the development of large-scale Marine Protected Areas in the South Pacific . MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES.

(2016). Fire severity alters spatio-temporal movements and habitat utilisation by an arboreal marsupial, the mountain brushtail possum (<i>Trichosurus cunninghami</i>) . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE.

(2015). Adoption of alternative habitats by a threatened, "obligate" forest-dwelling bat in a fragmented landscape . JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY.

(2015). Effects of predation by introduced mammals and mortality due to severe floods on population viability of the endangered Blue Duck (<i>Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos</i>) . EMU.

(2015). Extending the Functionality of Behavioural Change-Point Analysis with <i>k</i>-Means Clustering: A Case Study with the Little Penguin (<i>Eudyptula minor</i>) . PLOS ONE.

(2015). Females as mobile resources: communal roosts promote the adoption of lek breeding in a temperate bat . BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY.

(2015). Finding our way: On the sharing and reuse of animal telemetry data in Australasia . SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT.

(2015). GPS telemetry for parrots: A case study with the Kea (<i>Nestor notabilis</i>) . AUK.

(2015). Mitigation of vessel-strike mortality of endangered Bryde's whales in the Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand . BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION.

(2015). Sex determination of black petrels (<i>Procellaria</i> <i>parkinsoni</i>) using morphometric measurements and discriminant function analysis. NOTORNIS.

(2014). Characterizing Behavior States of Little Penguins in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand. INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY.

(2014). Competition for pollination by the lesser short-tailed bat and its influence on the flowering phenology of some New Zealand endemics . JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY.

(2013). A new multi-scale measure for analysing animal movement data . JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY.

(2013). Effects of Temporal Resolution on an Inferential Model of Animal Movement . PLOS ONE.

(2013). Energy, water and space use by free-living red kangaroos <i>Macropus rufus</i> and domestic sheep <i>Ovis aries</i> in an Australian rangeland . JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY.

(2012). Assessing Acute Effects of Trapping, Handling, and Tagging on the Behavior of Wildlife Using GPS Telemetry: A Case Study of the Common Brushtail Possum . JOURNAL OF APPLIED ANIMAL WELFARE SCIENCE.

(2011). GENDER ASSIGNMENT OF WESTLAND PETRELS (<i>PROCELLARIA</i> <i>WESTLANDICA</i>) USING LINEAR DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS . WILSON JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY.

(2011). Investigating Behaviour and Population Dynamics of Striped Marlin (<i>Kajikia audax</i>) from the Southwest Pacific Ocean with Satellite Tags . PLOS ONE.

(2010). Black Petrels (<i>Procellaria parkinsoni</i>) Patrol the Ocean Shelf-Break: GPS Tracking of a Vulnerable Procellariiform Seabird . PLOS ONE.

Dennis, T. E., Chen, W. C., Koefoed, I. M., Lacoursiere, C. J., Walker, M. M., Laube, P., & Forer, P. (2010). Performance characteristics of small global-positioning-system tracking collars for terrestrial animals. Wildlife Biology in Practice, 6(1), 14-31.

(2009). Tracking fish using 'buoy-based' GPS telemetry . MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES.

(2009). Why is eradication of invasive mustelids so difficult? . BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION.

(2008). Evaluating the impact of a biological control parasitoid on invasive <i>Vespula</i> wasps in a natural forest ecosystem . BIOLOGICAL CONTROL.

(2007). Evidence that pigeons orient to geomagnetic intensity during homing . PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES.

(2007). Movement beyond the snapshot - Dynamic analysis of geospatial lifelines . COMPUTERS ENVIRONMENT AND URBAN SYSTEMS.

(2006). Initial flight alignment to geomagnetic intensity contours in homing pigeons. JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY.

(2005). Role of the magnetic sense in the distribution and abundance of marine animals. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES.

(2004). Dolphin-watching tour boats change bottlenose dolphin (<i>Tursiops truncatus</i>) behaviour . BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION.

(2002). The magnetic sense and its use in long-distance navigation by animals . CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY.

(2002). The sensory basis of olfactory search behavior in banded kokopu (<i>Galaxias fasciatus</i>) . JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY.

Todd E. Dennis, Arthur J. Bulger (1995). Condition factor and whole-body sodium concentrations in a freshwater fish: Evidence for acidification stress and possible ionoregulatory over-compensation . Water, Air, &amp; Soil Pollution.

T. E. Dennis, S. E. MacAvoy, M. B. Steg, A. J. Bulger (1995). The association of water chemistry variables and fish condition in streams of Shenandoah National Park (USA) . Water, Air, &amp; Soil Pollution.

BOOK CHAPTER

Todd Dennis, Jinfeng Zhao, Pip Forer, Mike Walker (2012). The Space–Time Aquarium is Full of Albatrosses: Time Geography, Lifestyle and Trans-species Geovisual Analytics . Geospatial Visualisation.