
Past NE CASC Fellow
Ph.D. Candidate
Consortium Institution:
University of Massachusetts
Affiliations:
Ph.D. Student, University of Massachusetts
Education:
B.S.: Wildlife Biology and Conservation, University of Rhode Island, 2005.
M.S.: Environmental Conservation, University of Rhode Island, 2007.
Research Interests:
Kris’ research interests include development of demographic models using IPCC climate models to project future marine bird populations in the northeast.
Prior to being a NE CASC graduate fellow, Kris worked as a research associate at the University of Rhode Island, where he and a team of researchers conducted aerial and ship-based marine bird surveys and developed predictive models of marine bird distribution and abundance.