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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:16:47.007848'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/barbara-kus
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education:
   - Ph.D., Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 1985
   - M.S., Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 1980
   - B.S., Anthropology, University of California, Davis, CA 1977
   - B.A., Zoology, University of California, Davis, CA 1977
   email: barbara_kus@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms: []
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Dr. Barbara Kus is a Research Ecologist with the Western Ecological Research
     Center.
   name: Barbara Kus
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0002-3679-3044
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc
   organization_name: Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)
   personal_statement: Dr. Kus designs and conducts original field research on avian
     ecology and conservation to support science-based natural resource management
     in national and international contexts.  Dr. Kus interacts closely with federal,
     state, and local resource managers and regulatory agencies to prioritize research
     needs, and design and conduct investigations to meet those needs.  As a scientist
     broadly trained in ecology and evolutionary biology, she focuses her research
     on integrating management, which is typically short-term and threats-driven,
     with an evolutionary perspective that seeks longer-term sustainability of species
     and ecosystems through maintenance of evolutionary processes required for persistence.  A
     theme of her research is that it is strategically long-term, yielding unique
     datasets that incorporate spatial and temporal patterns of response to environmental
     variability needed for this evolutionary perspective.RESEARCH INTERESTSEcology
     and Conservation of Endangered Riparian BirdsResponse of Riparian Bird Communities
     to Habitat RestorationEcology and Population Trends of Neotropical Migratory
     BirdsPopulation Genetic Structure of Endangered BirdsPost-wildfire Recovery
     of Riparian and Coastal Sage Scrub Bird Communities and Habitats
   professional_experience: []
   title: Supervisory Research Ecologist