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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T15:22:00.106247'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/lucas-berio-fortini
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education:
   - Ph.D. 2010 Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville,
     FL
   - B.S. 2001 Resource Management (Forest Ecology concentration) University of California,
     Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
   - A.A. 1999 Environmental Studies, Moorpark College, Moorpark, CA
   email: lfortini@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - Community ecology
   - Population modeling
   - Conservation biology
   - Ecophysiology
   - Remote sensing
   - Climate change
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - 'Specialty: Quantitative methods, including simulation modeling, to make conservation
     and management efforts more science-based. Expertise in population and community
     ecology modeling and analyses. Interdisciplinary training and experience in
     forest mensuration, plant ecophysiology, remote sensing, GIS and natural resource
     economics, among others.'
   name: Lucas Berio Fortini
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-5781-7295
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/pacific-island-ecosystems-research-center
   organization_name: Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
   personal_statement: Research Interests:Applied conservation research focused on
     decision support. Research focused on how the response of populations and communities
     to natural and human-made disturbance determine ecological resilience and shape
     opportunities for conservation and management. Determining impacts of climate
     change on Pacific Island ecosystems and their interactions with current serious
     threats of invasives, land cover change, and fire.Personal Interests:biking,
     hiking, playing music, drones.
   professional_experience: []
   title: Research Ecologist