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Altered land cover within the watersheds that drain into critical migratory shorebird habitat along the coastline of Pará and Maranhão in Northern Brazil

  • Landscape ecology framework for evaluating wildlife habitat and human-wildlife interactions
  • Applying remote sensing and geographic information science to management and conservation questions and goals
  • Combining in-situ wildlife data, remotely sensed and GIS derived habitat metrics with distribution modeling to determine where and how wildlife uses habitat

Current Projects:

  • Multispectral and radar based characterization of intertidal sediment size
  • Modeling intertidal shorebird habitat in northern Brazil and Bahia Lomas, Chile
  • Remote sensing of offshore oil-spill in northern Brazil with Sentinel 1 radar data

For more information, please see the list of publications (available upon request), my Research Statement, and my complete curriculum vitae linked below.

Research Statement
Curriculum Vitae

Peer-Reviewed Publications

IN REVIEW: Daniel Merchant, Richard G. Lathrop, Larry Niles, Danielle Paludo, Carlos David Santos, Joseph Smith, Amanda Dey, Stephanie Feign, Carmen Espoz Larrain, Fabio Labra Rodriguez. “Comparative multi-sensor remote sensing of intertidal sediment habitat – distinct patterns at distinct locations”

Lathrop, Richard G., Scott M. Haag, Daniel Merchant, Michael J. Kennish, and Benjamin Fertig. 2014. “Comparison of Remotely-Sensed Surveys vs. in Situ Plot-Based Assessments of Sea Grass Condition in Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey USA.” Journal of Coastal Conservation 18 (3): 299–308. doi:10.1007/s11852-014-0319-y.

Professional Publications and Reports

Lathrop, Richard G., Daniel Merchant, Joseph Smith, Stephanie Feigin, Larry J. Niles. 2018. NMBCA Interim Report, Award Number F16AP00427. Shorebird Conservation in Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile. Available upon request

Merchant, Daniel, Richard G. Lathrop, Larry J. Niles, Joseph Smith, Stephanie Feigin, Amanda Dey, Carlos David Santos, Danielle Paludo. 2017. NMBCA Annual Report 2016-2017, Award Number F15AP00964. Shorebird Conservation in Brazil and Delaware Bay, Available upon request

Merchant, Daniel, Richard G. Lathrop, Larry J. Niles, Joseph Smith, Stephanie Feigin, Amanda Dey, Carlos David Santos, Danielle Paludo. 2016. NMBCA Annual Report 2015-2016, Award Number F15AP00964. Shorebird Conservation in Brazil and Delaware Bay, Available upon request

Lathrop, R. G., Niles, L. J., Merchant, D., Farrell, T., & Licitra, C. 2013. Mapping and Assessing Critical Horseshoe Crab Spawning Habitats in Delaware Bay: Update to 2007/10 and Post-Sandy. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: Grant F Walton Center for Remote Sensing & Spatial Analysis. Retrieved from http://crssa.rutgers.edu/projects/coastal/hcrab/report/CRSSAreport_20130916_Horseshoe_Crab_Habitat_in_DelBay_Update.pdf

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