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Education

Sep 2016 - Mar 2022 : PhD in Ecology, Oregon State University

Sep 2020 - Mar 2022 : MS in Statistics, Oregon State University

Sep 2011 - May 2015 : BS in Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University

Research Interests

Statistical ecology, Bayesian statistics, theoretical ecology, time series analysis, ecology and evolution of plant–pollinator communities

Appointments

Apr 2023 - Present : Consulting Statistician, College of Forestry, Oregon State University

Apr 2022 - Apr 2023 : Postdoctoral Research Associate
NSF EPSCoR RII-Track 2: Highly predictive, explanatory models to harness the life science data revolution, Modelscapes Consortium, University of Wyoming
Advisor(s): Dr. Lauren Shoemaker

Jan 2022 - Mar 2022 : Graduate Teaching Assistant
Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU

Sep 2021 - Mar 2022 : Graduate Teaching Assistant
Dept. of Statistics, OSU

Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 : Graduate Reasearch Assistant
Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU
Advisor(s): Dr. F. Andrew Jones, Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU

Sep 2020 - Jun 2021 : Graduate Teaching Assistant

• Botany and Plant Pathology, OSU
  
• Dept. of Statistics, OSU

Sep 2016 - Sep 2020 : NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Advisor(s): Drs. F. Andrew Jones and Matthew G. Betts, OSU

Teaching

• FES 524: Natural Resources Data Analysis

• FES/FERM 505: Introduction to coding using R

  • Lab materials available at https://cof-intro2r.github.io/intro2R-lab-notes/

  • Template homework repositories available at https://github.com/orgs/CoF-intro2R/repositories

• FES 605: Dive into Deep Learning Reading Group

  • We are working our way through Zhang et al. 2023, Dive into Deep Learning.

Past teaching assisstantships

• BOT 575: Comparative Genomics - Instructor: Aaron Liston, BPP, OSU

• ST 591: Introduction to Quantitative Genomics - Instructor: Thomas Sharpton, MCB, OSU

• ST 201: Principles of Statistics - Instructor(s): Kelsi Espinoza, Lisa Madsen, Erin Howard, ST, OSU

• BOT 341: Plant Ecology - Instructor(s): Andy Jones, BPP, OSU

Select publications

• Cerullo, G., Gannon, D., Bailey Guerrero, J. A., Conklin, E., Kohlberg, A. B., Nelson, K., Rivers, J. W., Valente, J. J., Yang, Z., & Betts, M. G. Spatially concentrating logging could mitigate climate-magnified fragmentation risks to a globally endangered bird. Journal of Applied Ecology, (2026), 63(2), DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.70317

• Seyfried, G. S., Campbell, B. J., Giani, N., Gannon, D. G., & O’Halloran, T. L. Different Mechanisms Underlie Plant-Mediated Methane Transport in a Tidal Salt Marsh Versus an Impounded Brackish Wetland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, (2026), 131(3), DOI: 10.1029/2025JG008987

• Lowman, H. E., M. DeSiervo, R. O. Hall, J. P. Jahner, S. O. Jimoh, D. C. Laughlin, A. C. Patterson, C. Weiss-Lehman, C. C. Barbosa, K. L. Bell, J. R. Blaszczak, C. A. Buerkle, A. M. Carter, S. M. Collins, V. DeLeo, M. Dunkle, D. Gannon, …, and L. G. Shoemaker. Collaborative consortia can boost postdoctoral workforce development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024) 121:e2401812121.

• Gannon, D. G., Hadley, A. S., Frey, S. J. K. Pairing automated mark-recapture and social network models to explore the effects of landscape configuration on hummingbird foraging patterns. Biology Letters 17 (2021).

Languages

Spoken languages

• English (native language)
• Spanish (conversational)

Programming languages

• R (fluent)
• STAN (fluent)
• Python (competent)
• Unix/Linux (competent)
• LaTeX (competent)
• C++ (competent)