Faculty Profile
Vanessa Rojas
Associate Professor
Department of Sustainable Resources Management
Wanakena Campus
Education
Ph.D., Indiana State University, Biology (Ecology), 2018
MSc, University of Michigan-Flint, Biology (Wildlife), 2010
BSc, Michigan State University, Environmental Studies and Applications, 2004
Courses Taught
- FTC 208: Remote Sensing and GIS Technology
- FTC 239: GIS Practicum
- FTC 210: Wildlife Techniques 1
- FTC 240: Wildlife Techniques 2
- FTC 234: Wildlife Conservation
- FTC 238: Introduction to Water and Soil Resources
- FTC 238: Forest Insects and Disease
- EFB 202: Ecological Monitoring and Biodiversity Assessment
- EFB 496: Wildlife Techniques
Areas of Study
- Bat ecology
- Occupancy modeling
- Acoustic surveys
- Geospatial science
Publications
Rojas, VG, SC Loeb, JM O'Keefe. 2022. Applying mobile acoustic surveys to model bat habitat use across sinuous routes. Wildlife Society Bulletin 46(4): e1353. https://doi.org/10.1002/wsb.1353
Gallagher ME, SL Farrell, RH Germain, VG Rojas. 2021. Summer bat habitat use and forest characteristics in managed northeastern forests. Journal of Forestry 119(3): 305–318. https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvaa059
Rojas VG, SC Loeb SC, JM O’Keefe. 2019. False-positive occupancy models produce less-biased occupancy estimates for a rare and elusive bat species. Journal of Mammalogy 100(1):212–222. doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy162
Rojas VG, JM O'Keefe, SC Loeb. 2017. Baseline capture rates and roosting habits of Myotis septentrionalis (northern long-eared bat) prior to white-nose syndrome detection in the southern Appalachians. Southeastern Naturalist 16(2):140–148. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26454738
Honors and Awards
TRELIS Fellow - 2019 - Training and Retaining Leaders in STEM - Geospatial Sciences