Mathieu Basille is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology at the University of Florida’s Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center. He is primarily interested in spatial ecology of large vertebrates. He leads the MabLab, which focuses on movement and habitat selection of animals such as Wood Storks, Raccoons and Seabirds.
A review of movement packages is on the way… We need your help with a survey!
It was finally time to retrieve the last collar from the April raccoon session, which was carried around by Sleepy Hollow the Raccoon. With the help of the last GPS locations, and the VHF beacon embedded in the collar, we went to a likely spot for the collar. Everything indicated that the collar was near, but we just could not see it.…
Raccoon season is over! Thirteen raccoons captured this time, and only one recapture, not counting possums, mosquitoes, and one python! Check out all the details!
Monitoring raccoons with GPS collars is fun, but also challenging! Sometimes it is difficult to get a signal from the GPS collar to our base station to download data. This was the case with Arya the raccoon, who we had not gotten a download from since June 1st…
Our project is studying raccoons in south Florida. We are starting our study in Tree Tops Park. For now, our biggest focus is on home ranges of raccoons, which we monitor with GPS collars. Normally, Ma Barker is an easy raccoon to find…
Research project on raccoon home ranges and ecological flows
Research project on Wood Stork movement ecology.
Development of packages and resources for R.
Navigation of seabirds on the vast ocean, and the role of infrasound
Caitlin is a technician working on the Raccoon project.
Simona started her PhD on Wood Stork movement ecology in 2015.
Rocío is a postdoctoral associate who started in 2018.
Alexis did his Master thesis on Wood Storks reproductive success in 2017.
David was the Biological Scientist in the lab from 2015 to 2017.
Balázs worked as a Google Summer of Code student in 2016 and 2017.
Mel was an Intern working on creating beautiful maps in 2017.
Valeria was an intern in charge of updating the Raccoon Ecology Database in 2018.