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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:17:20.161102'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/brian-w-miller
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education:
   - Ph.D. in Ecology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
   - B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder
   email: bwmiller@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - Social-Ecological Systems
   - Simulation Modeling
   - Scenario Planning
   - Climate Adaptation
   - Climate Impacts
   - Rangelands
   - Pastoralism
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - Dr. Brian Miller is a USGS Research Ecologist with the North Central Climate
     Adaptation Science Center, one of nine centers in the United States charged
     with providing the best-available climate science to resource managers.
   name: Brian W Miller, Ph.D.
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0003-1716-1161
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate-adaptation-science-centers
   organization_name: Climate Adaptation Science Centers
   personal_statement: "Brian's current focus is on using scenario planning and simulation\
     \ modeling (state-and-transition simulations, agent-based models) to inform\
     \ natural resource management in the Rocky Mountains and northern Great Plains.\
     \ He is also a co-organizer of the Indigenous Phenology Network and an instructor\
     \ with the National Conservation Training Center. He has an interdisciplinary\
     \ background in social-ecological systems, and has used a broad range of methods\
     \ \u2013 including simulation modeling, institutional analysis, fluvial geomorphology,\
     \ livelihood decision modeling, and remote sensing \u2013 to examine the interactions\
     \ of climate, ecosystems, and resource management in East Africa, the Gal\xE1\
     pagos Islands, and the western U.S.Brian earned a B.A. in Ecology and Evolutionary\
     \ Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Ph.D. in Ecology\
     \ from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he also worked\
     \ at the Carolina Population Center. His dissertation focused on how conservation\
     \ areas and land use changes have affected access to drought resource areas\
     \ in East Africa, how these changes in resource access have influenced the livelihood\
     \ decisions of Maasai pastoralists, and how livelihood decisions and resource\
     \ management institutions have affected rangeland rivers."
   professional_experience: []
   title: Research Ecologist, North Central CASC