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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/alexander-h-kiser
   timestamp: '2024-01-31T04:44:49.789497'
   status_code: 200
 profile:
   name: Alexander H Kiser, PhD
   name_qualifier: null
   titles:
   - Research Biologist
   organizations:
   - !!python/tuple
     - Eastern Ecological Science Center
     - https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eesc
   email: alex.kiser@usgs.gov
   orcid: 0000-0002-2871-0640
   intro_statements:
   - Alexander (Alex) Kiser, PhD, is a Research Biologist at the USGS Eastern Ecological
     Science Center on the Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysist Team.
   expertise_terms:
   - Quantitative Ecology
   - Conservation, Ecology
   - Species Distribution Modeling
   - Enseble Model
   - Machine Learning
   - Artificial Intelligence
   - Geographic Information Sciences
   - Spatial Data
   - High Resolution Data Modeling
   professional_experience:
   - 2023 - presentUSGS Eastern Ecological Science Center, Kearneysville, WV, Research
     Biologist
   education:
   - Ph.D., Wildlife and Fisheries, Texas A&M
   - M.S., Aquaculture and Fisheries, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
   - B.S., Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Georgia
   affiliations: []
   honors: []
   abstracts: []
   personal_statement: Alex's research interests focus on quantitative ecology and
     creating repeatable systematic methods for determining priority conservation
     and restoration areas. During his PhD at Texas A&M University, Alex worked on
     creating species distribution models of threatened and imperiled mussel species
     to identify priority conservation areas. His Master's degree from the University
     of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Alex focused on the valuation of ecosystem services
     provide by restored wetlands under the Wetland Reserve Program-Agricultural
     Conservation Easement Program. While completing his Bachelor's degree from the
     University of Georgia, Alex worked with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources
     to modify Brook Trout habitat and conduct population assessments of wild trout
     streams in the Chattahoochee National Forest. Since joining the USGS Eastern
     Ecological Science Center, Alex has worked to apply his grid-based distribution
     models on a tidal and non-tidal joint study assessing land use impacts on the
     distribution or riverine and estuary aquatic species in the Patuxent River.