Bryn Evans
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Dr. Bryn Evans is a wildlife ecologist with a research background in terrestrial mammal surveys, and a growing interest in inclusivity, outreach, and science education. Her career began as a bare-foot kid with a love of nature, through her teen years taking every science class available at community college (and benefiting from the incredible instructors there!). Finally, during her undergraduate program at the University of California Davis, she discovered the academic side of wild animal research and conservation, and never looked back.
Bryn worked for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife for several years, catching and tracking black-tailed deer, mountain lions, and fishers, as well as collaborating with numerous agencies and stake holders. She then completed a master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin Madison, assessing the recovery of semi-aquatic mammals in a degraded and restored watershed, and a PhD at the University of Maine, monitoring mesocarnivores across the heavily forested (and heavily harvested) northern two-thirds of the state.
Though she remains active in the Martes Working Group as an executive board member, her focus now is on outreach and engagement to foster a collaborative international community of researchers, and on teaching in the natural sciences. She taught at the University of California Santa Cruz, taking environmental science students out on field trips to collect trail camera data and conduct behavioral trials on ground squirrels, and is now delighted to teach and learn from students in the ESS department at Santa Clara University.
Education
BSc – Biological Sciences, University of California-Davis, 2009
MSc – Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2017
Advisors: Dr. Tim van Deelen and Dr. Shawn Crimmins
PhD – Wildlife Ecology, University of Maine-Orono, 2021
Advisor: Dr. Alessio Mortelliti
Postdoc – Lecturer, University of Maine-Orono, 2021
Advisor: Dr. Erik Blomberg
- ENVS 21: Environmental Biology L&L
Dri, G.F., Hunter, M., Rolek, B., Evans, B.E., & Mortelliti, A. (2024) Forest management has contrasting effects on the functional diversity of bird and mammal communities. Animal Conservation https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.13001
Butler, A.R., Evans, B.E., Mortelliti, A, & Moll, R.J. (2023) Forest and snow rather than food or foe limit the distribution of a generalist mesocarnivore in winter. Ecosphere 2023 14:e4706. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4706
Evans, B.E., Brehm, A.M., Dri, G.F., Bolinjkar, A., Archambault, G., & Mortelliti, A. (2023) Differential habitat use between demographic states of black bears in managed timber forests. Journal of Wildlife Management 2023 e22501. https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.22501
Evans, B.E., & Mortelliti, A. (2022) Forest disturbance and occupancy patterns of American ermine (Mustela richardsonii) and long-tailed weasel (Neogale frenata): results from a large-scale natural experiment in Maine, United States. Journal of Mammalogy gyac079:1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyac079
Evans, B.E., & Mortelliti, A. (2022) Effects of forest disturbance, snow depth, and intraguild dynamics on American marten and fisher occupancy in Maine, USA. Ecosphere 13(4):e4027. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4027
Mortelliti, A., Brehm, A.M., & Evans, B.E. (2022) Umbrella effect of monitoring protocols for mammals in the Northeast US. Scientific Reports 12:1893. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05791-x
Evans, B.E. (2021) Forest Disturbance and Occupancy Patterns of Carnivores: Results of a Large-scale Field Study in Maine, USA. Dissertation. University of Maine, Orono ME USA.
Cove, M., Kays, R. [...] Evans, B.E., [...] and McShea, W. [154 authors]. (2021) SNAPSHOT USA 2019: A coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States. Ecology 102(6): e03353. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3353
Buyaskas, M., Evans, B.E., and Mortelliti, A. (2020) Assessing the effectiveness of attractants to increase camera trap detections of North American mammals. Mammalian Biology 100(1):91-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-020-00011-3
Evans, B.E., Mosby, C.E. and Mortelliti, A. (2019) Assessing arrays of multiple trail cameras to detect North American mammals. PLoS ONE 14(6)e0217543. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217543
Allen, M.L., Wojcik, B., Evans, B.E., Iehl, E.E., Barker, R.E., Wheeler, M.E., Peterson, B.E., Dohm, R.L., Mueller, M.A., Olson, L.O., Ederer, B., Stewart, M., Crimmins, S., Pemble, K., Van Stappen, J., Olson, E., and Van Deelen, T.R. (2018) Detection of Endangered American Martens (Martes americana) in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Wisconsin. American Midland Naturalist 179(2):294-298. https://doi.org/10.1674/0003-0031-179.2.294
Evans, B.E.H. (2017) Recovery of semi-aquatic mammals in the St. Louis River (Minnesota and Wisconsin) Area of Concern. Thesis. University of Wisconsin, Madison USA.
Allen, M.L., Evans, B.E., and Gunther, M.S. (2015) A potential range expansion of the coastal fisher (Pekania pennanti) population in California. California Fish and Game 101(4):280-285. Link
In preparation
Brian Gerber et al. (meta analysis). When the Wild Things Are: Defining Mammalian Diel Activity and Plasticity. Resubmitted to Science Advances, November 2024