@AbsLawson

Research ecologist with the federal government. Alaskan, #birds, #alligators, #DecisionScience, and dogs.

 New Mexico
fwce.nmsu.edu/faculty-staff/abigail-lawson.html
Joined March 2015
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Second paper from my PhD has finally dropped on @ESAEcosphere! #OpenAccess Hidden in plain sight: Integrated population models to resolve partially observable latent population structure aka: the #alligator modeling paper 🐊 📈 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi… 1/n

Hidden in plain sight: Integrated population models to resolve partially observable latent popula...

Population models often require detailed information on sex-, age-, or size-specific abundances, but population monitoring programs cannot always acquire data at the desired resolution. Thus, state...

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Ahem, is this thing on? 🎤 My account was hacked last week, 0/10 would not recommend Sorry to those of you who were spammed about gaming and blockchain… was tough to watch that play out from afar Back now, to tweet about science, but mostly dogs (if I’m being honest)
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📣📣 MASTER'S POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT 📣📣 See full announcement here: bit.ly/3nzsOnF. Pls share widely!
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And one more new grad student. Whitney Watson is from Minneapolis, received her BS from Macalester College and her MS from U Wisc-Madison. Her PhD w/ Abby Lawson & Tim Wright will examine the ecology of rosy-finches in northern New Mexico
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Field day for the Lawson Lab! Heather Zimba (MS student) and Erica Christensen (postdoc), and I checked out prospective release sites for Bolson tortoises on @USFWSRefuges! 🐢
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Now online in @ESAApplications: Qualitative value of information provides a transparent and repeatable method for identifying critical uncertainty doi.org/10.1002/eap.2824 With #OpenData in @USGS' #ScienceBase #DecisionScience @mlstantial @AbsLawson @mcr_evpi @RallidaeRule
A schematic describing the PrOACT (problem framing, objectives, alternatives, consequences, and tradeoffs) decision-making framework used during the workshop for prioritizing uncertainties related to the effects of management actions on Eastern Black Rails, Yellow Rails, and Mottled Ducks in high marshes along the Gulf of Mexico, USA

ALT A schematic describing the PrOACT (problem framing, objectives, alternatives, consequences, and tradeoffs) decision-making framework used during the workshop for prioritizing uncertainties related to the effects of management actions on Eastern Black Rails, Yellow Rails, and Mottled Ducks in high marshes along the Gulf of Mexico, USA

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These are the female faculty of @nmsu_fwce. What an awesome group of smart and talented women scientists! @theresalaverty, @JenniferKFrey, Martha Desmond, @AbsLawson, Wiebke Boeing, Colleen Caldwell, soon to come @KCPregler
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Abby Lawson retweeted
Ecosphere@ESAEcosphere6 Jan 2023
A new #alligator study uses a Bayesian #IntegratedPopulationModel to harness multiple data sources, generating abundance estimates of each size class over time doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4321 #OpenAccess @AbsLawson @KyleeDunham @USGSCoopUnits @USGS @nmsu_fwce @SCDNR @SCCoopUnit
Size class-specific American alligator abundance posterior means with 95 percent Bayesian credible intervals from nightlight survey counts on the Great Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers and the South Santee River from 2011 to 2016 in coastal South Carolina, USA. The top panels (a, b) show abundance estimates for immature size classes and the bottom panels (c, d) show adult size classes

ALT Size class-specific American alligator abundance posterior means with 95 percent Bayesian credible intervals from nightlight survey counts on the Great Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers and the South Santee River from 2011 to 2016 in coastal South Carolina, USA. The top panels (a, b) show abundance estimates for immature size classes and the bottom panels (c, d) show adult size classes

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Abby Lawson@AbsLawson5 Jan 2023
Second paper from my PhD has finally dropped on @ESAEcosphere! #OpenAccess Hidden in plain sight: Integrated population models to resolve partially observable latent population structure aka: the #alligator modeling paper 🐊 📈 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi… 1/n

Hidden in plain sight: Integrated population models to resolve partially observable latent popula...

Population models often require detailed information on sex-, age-, or size-specific abundances, but population monitoring programs cannot always acquire data at the desired resolution. Thus, state...

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On a personal note, this paper was a BEAST. It's coming out just ~4 years shy from my PhD defense For long-time followers, any tweets related to a code meltdown during my PhD: this was why Plan to do a thread about what goes into a paper like this #paperbehindthepaper 8/n
An alligator in the water at night that has entered a trap and grabbed a fish.

ALT An alligator in the water at night that has entered a trap and grabbed a fish.

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For now, just a huge shout-out to the village (more like mid-sized city?) it took to get this paper out: Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. All animals handled with proper permits and training. 9/9
A team of researchers kneels behind a large alligator that has been captured.

ALT A team of researchers kneels behind a large alligator that has been captured.

An alligator marked with a transmitter with its mouth open facing away from the water. Meme lettering appears above and below the alligator to tell a joke. What do you call an alligator detective? An investiGATOR.

ALT An alligator marked with a transmitter with its mouth open facing away from the water. Meme lettering appears above and below the alligator to tell a joke. What do you call an alligator detective? An investiGATOR.

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Kasey Pregler@KCPregler4 Jan 2023
Thrilled to be joining @nmsu_fwce & @USGSCoopUnits this summer in Las Cruces! Our lab will be researching applications of genetic/evolutionary rescue for conservation of imperiled species & fish population ecology. Stay tuned for lab member recruitment in fall/spring 23/24! 🐟💦
NMSU Fish, Wildlife & Cons Ecol@nmsu_fwce4 Jan 2023
FWCE is excited that Dr. Kasey Pregler will be joining us later this year as NM USGS Fish & Wildlife Coop Unit's new Asst Unit Leader & NMSU Affiliate Asst Prof. Dr Pregler's expertise includes fish ecology, genetics & conservation. Great to have Dr. Pregler coming to NMSU!
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Hey, my colleagues in @NECFWRU @USGSCoopUnits are looking for an ecological modeler! Our @UNLSNR Applied Ecology faculty group is impactful and collaborative. Check it out here: usajobs.gov/job/692182900
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It may be 2 weeks late, but I finally got my #TWS2022 talk recorded and uploaded Managed to only have 1 COVID coughing fit during the recording the required a pause Please clap.
Abby Lawson@AbsLawson10 Nov 2022
Coming up this this afternoon at #TWS2022— check out my talk on expert elicitation for the alligator snapping turtle USFWS Species Status Assessment! (SCC-206B 2:30 PM) 🐢 This is part of a symposium on expert elicitation that is not to be missed
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For those keeping track at home, yes, this is the second year in a row that something weird has happened during my TWS recording... Learned from my mistake last year and kept the video off! xitter.cf/AbsLawson/status/14515…
Abby Lawson@AbsLawson22 Oct 2021
Picked a really great time of day to record my #TWS2021 presentation.... 🤦‍♀️
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