David R Smith, Ph.D.
Dave is a Research Statistician (Biology) at the Eastern Ecological Science Center in Kearneysville, WV.
Dave Smith graduated from Colorado State (MS in Fish and Wildlife Biology) and University of Georgia (MS in Statistics and PhD in Forest Resources). Currently, he is a biological statistician at the USGS Leetown Science Center where he focuses on applied quantitative ecology in support of natural resource management and environmental decision making.
His research activities mostly focus on the following topics:
- Adaptive sampling of rare and clustered populations
- Conservation and science of horseshoe crabs in North America and Asia
- Conservation of freshwater mussels
- Application of structured decision making and adaptive management to natural resource management
Science and Products
Decision analysis of barrier placement and targeted removal to control invasive carp in the Tennessee River Basin
Impacts of sediment removal from and placement in coastal barrier island systems
Executive SummaryOn June 24, 2019, Congressman Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, sent a letter to the directors of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey to request their assistance in answering questions regarding coastal sediment resource management within the Coastal Barrier Resources System as defined by the Coastal Barrier
The contribution of water radiolysis to marine sedimentary life
Using expert knowledge to support Endangered Species Act decision‐making for data‐deficient species
The Long-term effect of bleeding for Limulus amebocyte lysate on annual survival and recapture of tagged horseshoe crabs
A Bayesian framework for assessing extinction risk based on ordinal categories of population condition and projected landscape change
Estimation of vital population rates to assess the relative health of mussel assemblages in the Upper Mississippi River
Addressing disease risk to develop a health program for bighorn sheep in Montana
Introduction to prediction and the value of information
Introduction to structuring decisions
Strategic conservation of an imperiled freshwater mussel, the Dwarf Wedgemussel, in North Carolina
Science and Products
Decision analysis of barrier placement and targeted removal to control invasive carp in the Tennessee River Basin
Impacts of sediment removal from and placement in coastal barrier island systems
Executive SummaryOn June 24, 2019, Congressman Raul Grijalva of Arizona, Chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, sent a letter to the directors of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey to request their assistance in answering questions regarding coastal sediment resource management within the Coastal Barrier Resources System as defined by the Coastal Barrier