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Sadie J. Ryan
Assistant Professor

134 Illick Hall
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, New York 13210

Phone: (315) 470-6757
Email: sjryan@esf.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
• B.A. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

Research Interests

We work on ecology at the human interface and its implications for conservation, sustainability, wildlife management, and disease ecology.

Our interdisciplinary work incorporates tools from quantitative and applied ecology, geography and social science. We use techniques from the lab to the field to the computer to the white board.

We play well with others, and welcome collaborations.

Lab web site: http://www.esf.edu/EFB/ryan/

Courses Taught

• EFB 496/796: Emerging Infectious Diseases (3 cr, Fall)
• EFB 797: Adaptive Peaks Seminor (1 cr, Fall/Sp)
• EFB 496/796: Parameter Estimation and Population modeling (3cr, Sp)
• EFB 360: Epidemiology (3 cr, Sp)

Recent Publications

S.J. Ryan and Hartter, J. in press. Beyond ecological success of corridors: integrating land use history and demographic change to provide a whole landscape perspective. Ecological Restoration.

M.J. Tildesley and Ryan, S.J. 2012. Disease prevention versus data privacy:using landcover maps to inform spatial epidemic models. PLOS Computational Biology. [PDF]

Rudnick, D., Ryan, S.J., Preziosi, D., Epps, C., Deiffenbach, F., Kintsch, J., Beier, P., Jenness, J., Perkl., R., Trombulak, S., Hartter, J., Gerber, L., Merenlender, A., Austen, D., Cushman, S. 2012. Emerging principles in understanding landscape connectivity: practical tools for conservation decision-making. Issues in Ecology 16 (Fall 2012). [PDF]

Mordecai, E.A., Paaijmans, K.P., Johnson, L.R., Balzer, C.H., Ben-Horin, T., deMoor, E., McNally, A., Pawar, S., Ryan, S.J., Smith, T.C., Lafferty, K.D., 2012. Physiological constraints dramatically lower the expected temperature for peak malaria transmission. Ecology Letters. online early. [PDF]

Ryan, S.J., Cross, P.C., Winnie, J, Jr, Hay, C., Bowers, J., Getz, W.M. 2012. The utility of NDVI for predicting African buffalo forage quality. Journal of Wildlife Management. 76(7):1499-1508  [PDF] [COVER]

Ryan, S.J., Brashares, J. S, Walsh, C., Milbers, K., Kilroy, C., Chapman, C.A. 2012. A survey of gastrointestinal parasites of olive baboons (Papio anubis) in human settlement areas of Mole National Park, Ghana. J. Parasitology 98:885-888. [PDF]

Hartter, J., Stampone, M.D., Ryan, S.J., Kirner, K., Chapman, C.A., Goldman, A., 2012. Patterns and perceptions of climate change around a biodiversity hotspot. PLoS ONE 7(2)e32408 [PDF]

Ryan, S.J. and Walsh, P.D. 2011. Consequences of non-intervention for infectious disease in African great apes. PLoS ONE 6(12):e29030. [PDF]

Wolf, A., Anderegg, W., Ryan, S.J., Christensen, J. 2011. Robust detection of plant species range shifts under biased sampling regimes. Ecosphere 2(10):115 [PDF]

Hartter, J.* and Ryan, S.J.*, Southworth, J., and Chapman, C.A. 2011. Landscapes as continuous entities: forest disturbance and recovery in the Albertine Rift Landscape. Landscape Ecology 26(6):877-890 [PDF]

Stampone, M., Hartter, J., Chapman, C.A., Ryan, S.J. 2011.Localized precipitation trends in and around a forest park in east equatorial Africa. Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences 3(1):14-23 [PDF]

Petorelli, N., Ryan, S.J., Mueller, T., Bunnefeld, N., Jedrzejewska, B., Lima, M., Kausrud, K. 2011. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in ecology: a decade of unforseen successes. Climate Research 46:15-27 [PDF]

Professional Memberships

• Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)
• Ecological Society of America (ESA)
• Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
• The Wildlife Society (TWS)
• Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB)
• Sigma Xi
• American Association of Geographers (AAG)

Prior Employment

• Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara, CA
• Visitor, Department of Geography, UC Santa Barbara
• Postdoctoral Fellow, NSF Biological Informatics, Stanford University and McGill University
• Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Lecturer
• Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Research Associate
• Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Researcher