Alumni Profiles

Kari Norman

  • Program Years: 2017-2021
  • Academic Institution: University of California, Berkeley
  • Field of Study: Ecology
  • Academic Advisor: Carl Boettiger
  • Practicum(s):
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory (2018)
  • Degree(s):
    Ph.D Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley, 2021; S. Conservation and Restoration Ecology, and B.S. Statistics, Utah State University, 2016

Current Status

Publications

Chapman, Melissa, B Goldstein, C Schell, J Brashares, N Carter, D Ellis-Soto, H Faxon, J Goldstein, B Halpern, J Longdon, KEA Norman, D O'rourke, C Schell, C Scoville, L Xu C Boettiger. 2024. Biodiversity monitoring for a just planetary future. Science 383 (6678): 34-36.

Halpern, BS, C Boettiger, MC Dietze, JA Gephart, P Gonzalez, NB Grimm, PM Groffan, J Gurevitch, SE Hobbie, KJ Komatsu, KJ Kroeker, HJ Lahr, D Lodge, CJ Lortie, JSS Lowndes, F Micheli, HP Possingham, MH Ruckelshaus, C Scarborough, CL Wood GC Wu and NCEAS Future of Synthesis Summit Participants (including KEA Norman). 2023. Priorities for synthesis in ecology and environmental science. Ecosphere 14 (1): e4342.

Lapeyrolerie, M, MS Chapman, KEA Norman, C Boettiger. 2022. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Conservation Decisions. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 00:1–14.

Li, D, S Record, ER Sokol, ME Bitters, MY Chen, YA Chung, MR Helmus, R Jaimes, L Jansen, MA Jarzyna, MG Just, JM LaMontagne, B Melbourne, W Moss, KEA Norman, S Parker, N Robinson, B Seyednasrollah, C Smith, S Spaulding, T Surasinghe, S Thomsen, P Zarnetske. 2022. Tidy NEON organismal data for biodiversity research. Ecosphere 13 (7): e4141

Jarzyna, MA., KEA Norman, JM LaMontagne, MR Helmus, D Li, SM Parker, M Perez Rocha, S Record, ER Sokol, PL Zarnetske, and TD Surasinghe. 2022. Ecosystem stability is related to animal diversity dynamics at a continental scale. Ecosphere 13 (3): e3970.

Nagy, RC, JK Balch, EK Bissell, ME Cattau, NF Glenn, BS Halpern, N Ilangakoon, B Johnson, MB Joseph, S Marconi, C O’Riordan, J Sanovia, TL Swetnam, WR Travis, LA Wasse, PL Zarnetske and 2019 NEON Science Summit Participants (including KEA Norman; 118 authors). 2021. Harnessing the NEON data revolution to advance open environmental science with a diverse and data-capable community. Ecosphere 12 (12): e03833.

Norman, KEA, S Chamberlain, and C Boettiger. 2020. Taxadb: A High-Performance Local Taxonomic Database Interface. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 11 (9): 1153–9.

Awards

University of Montreal:
BIOS2 Postdoctoral Fellowship

University of California, Berkeley:
NSF NRT Fellowship, Data Science for the 21st Century 2016

Utah State University:
University and Departmental Honors, 2016
Dean's List, 2012-2106
Outstanding Statistics Undergraduate 2016
Presidential Scholar 2012-2015
Quinney Scholar 2012-2015
Undergraduate Research Fellow 2012-2015