usgs_staff_profile:
meta: status_code: 200 timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:13:17.838772' url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/grace-v-direnzo profile: abstracts: [] affiliations: [] education: - PhD, University of Maryland, College Park, 2011 - BS, University of Connecticut, 2007 email: gdirenzo@usgs.gov expertise_terms: - Decision Support/Analysis - Disease/Parasites - Epidemiology - Statistics and Modelling honors: [] intro_statements: - Assistant Unit Leader - Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units name: Grace V. DiRenzo, PhD name_qualifier: null orcid: 0000-0001-5264-4762 organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/cooperative-research-units organization_name: Cooperative Research Units 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." professional_experience: - Assistant Unit Leader, Massachusetts Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, 2020- title: Research Wildlife Biologist