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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/grace-v-direnzo
   timestamp: '2024-01-30T13:19:29.198990'
   status_code: 200
 profile:
   name: Grace V. DiRenzo, PhD
   name_qualifier: null
   titles:
   - Research Wildlife Biologist
   organizations:
   - !!python/tuple
     - Cooperative Research Units
     - https://www.usgs.gov/programs/cooperative-research-units
   email: gdirenzo@usgs.gov
   orcid: 0000-0001-5264-4762
   intro_statements:
   - Assistant Unit Leader - Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research
     Units
   expertise_terms:
   - Decision Support/Analysis
   - Disease/Parasites
   - Epidemiology
   - Statistics and Modelling
   professional_experience:
   - Assistant Unit Leader, Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research
     Unit, 2020-
   education:
   - PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, 2011
   - BS, University of Connecticut, 2007
   affiliations: []
   honors: []
   abstracts: []
   personal_statement: "Dr. DiRenzo joined the MA Cooperative Research Unit in Nov\
     \ 2020, where she is the Assistant Unit Leader of Wildlife and adjunct faculty\
     \ in the department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts,\
     \ Amherst. Dr. DiRenzo received her PhD at the University of Maryland, College\
     \ Park, and her Bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Connecticut, Storrs.\
     \ Her research emphasizes disease dynamics, community and population ecology,\
     \ and species conservation. To mimic natural hierarchical systems, she develops\
     \ hierarchical Bayesian models, and she uses data collected over space and time\
     \ to separate ecological and observational processes to answer ecological questions.Dr.\
     \ DiRenzo's research program focuses on unifying ecological and evolutionary\
     \ theory to address fundamental questions in ecology using field, experimental,\
     \ and quantitative approaches.She enjoys teaching graduate courses related to\
     \ quantitative ecology, disease ecology, and population/community ecology."