Ph.D., Environmental Science

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, RI

2013

• Thesis: Migration and stopover ecology of songbirds and bats along a major ecological barrier

M.S., Raptor Biology

Boise State University

Boise, ID

2006

• Thesis: Exploring raptor migration using stable isotope analysis: the Northern Goshawk in western North America

B.S., Wildlife Biology

Murray State University

Murray, KY

2000

Quantitative Ecologist

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Athens, GA

2020 - 2015

• Provide ecological, design, and analytical assistance to southeastern National Wildlife Refuges
• Build statistical models relevant to ecological research (e.g., occupancy models, hierarchical models)
• Develop methodologies and tools (e.g., R packages) that facilitate the synthesis and analysis of ecological data.
• Coordinate installation and maintenance of automated telemetry stations as part of the Motus Wildlife Tracking network

Contract analyst

Birds Canada

Athens, GA

2019

• Provide visualization and analytical support for Red Knot movement data

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, RI

2015 - 2013

• Described spatiotemporal variation in the behavior and abundance of sea ducks in southern New England and developed novel statistical methodologies to predict animal distribution and abundance relative to environmental covariates
• Studied post-breeding and migratory movement ecology of migratory birds using automated telemetry

Research Associate

University of Florida

N/A

2008

• Generated probabilistic (Bayesian) models of songbird resource use based on the isotopic composition of avian tissues and potential food resources to document the extent of community-level diet shifts and the seasonal importance of different food resources to migratory songbirds

Avian Research Technician II/III

Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources

Frankfort, KY

2007 - 2005

• Coordinated and implemented statewide Bald Eagle and Peregrine Falcon monitoring, two Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survivorship (MAPS) banding stations, migratory songbird banding, winter raptor surveys, and songbird banding training for staff and cooperators

Evans, KO, AD Smith, and D Richardson. Statistical power of mobile acoustic monitoring to detect population change in southeastern U.S. bat species, a case study. Ecological Indicators 125: 107524.

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2021

McGowan, CP, NF Angeli, WA Beisler, C Snyder, NM Rankin, JO Woodrow, JK Wilson, E Rivenbark, A Schwarzer, CE Hand, R Anthony, RK Griffin, K Barrett, AA Haverland, NS Roach, T Schneider, AD Smith, FM Smith, JDM Tolliver, and BD Watts. Linking monitoring and data analysis to predictions and decisions for the range-wide eastern black rail status assessment. Endangered Species Research 43: 209-222.

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2020

Lefevre, KL and AD Smith. Florida’s strategic position for collaborative automated-telemetry tracking of avian movements across the Americas. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 11: 369-375.

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2020

Smith, AD, B Hofner, JS Lamb, JE Osenkowski, T Allison, G Sadoti, SR McWilliams, and PWC Paton. Modeling spatiotemporal abundance of mobile wildlife in highly variable environments using boosted GAMLSS hurdle models. Ecology and Evolution 9:2346-2364.

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2019

Thomas, J, A Mayr, B Bischl, M Schmid, AD Smith, and B Hofner. Gradient boosting for distributional regression: faster tuning and improved variable selection via noncyclical updates. Statistics and Computing 28:673-687.

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2018

Moorman, MC, T Augspurger, JD Stanton, and AD Smith. Where’s the Grass? Disappearing submerged aquatic vegetation and declining water quality in Lake Mattamuskeet. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 8:401-417.

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2017

Smith, AD and SR McWilliams. Bat activity during autumn relates to atmospheric conditions: implications for coastal wind energy development. Journal of Mammalogy 97:1565-1577.

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2016

Jones, BC, AD Smith, SE Bebus, and SJ Shoech. Two seconds is all it takes: European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) increase levels of circulating glucorticoids after witnessing a brief raptor attack. Hormones and Behavior 78:72-78

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2016

Smith, AD, SR McWilliams, KJ Winiarski, CL Trocki, B Harris, JE Osenkowski, and PWC Paton. Using land-based surveys to assess sea duck abundance and behavior in nearshore waters of southern New England, USA. Waterbirds 38:252-259

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2015

Smith, AD, and SR McWilliams. What to do when stopping over: condition-dependent behavioral decisions of migrating songbirds. Behavioral Ecology 25:1423-1435

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2015

Smith, AD, PWC Paton, and SR McWilliams. Using nocturnal flight calls to assess the fall migration of warblers and sparrows along a coastal ecological barrier. PLoS ONE 9:e92218

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2014

Smith, AD, and SR McWilliams. Fruit removal rate depends on neighborhood fruit density, frugivore abundance, and spatial context. Oecologia 174:931-942

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2014

Bolser, JA, RR Alan, AD Smith, L Li, N Seeram, and SR McWilliams. Birds select fruits with more anthocyanins during autumn migration. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 125:97-108

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2013

McCue, MD, AD Smith, R McKinney, B Rewald, B Pinshow, and SR McWilliams. A mass balance approach to identify and compare differential routing of 13^C-labeled carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins in vivo. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 84:506-513

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2011

Smith, AD, CA Lott, JP Smith, KC Donohue, S Wittenberg, KG Smith, and L Goodrich. Poor reproducibility and inference in hydrogen-stable-isotope studies of avian movement: A reply to Wunder et al. (2009). Auk 126:926-931

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2009

Smith, AD, CA Lott, JP Smith, KC Donohue, S Wittenberg, KG Smith, and L Goodrich. Deuterium measurements of raptor feathers: does a lack of reproducibility compromise geographic assignment? Auk 126:41-46

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2009

Smith, AD, KC Donohue, and AM Dufty. Intrafeather and intraindividual variation in the stable-hydrogen isotope (\(\delta\)D) content of raptor feathers. Condor 110:500-506

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2008

Smith, AD and AM Dufty. Variation in the stable-hydrogen isotope composition of Northern Goshawk feathers: relevance to the study of migratory origins. Condor 107:547-558

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2005

Fiske, I, R Chandler, D Miller, A Royle, M Kery, J Hostetler, R Hutchinson, A. Smith, and K Kellner. unmarked: models for data from unmarked animals. R package version 0.12-3.

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2019

Given, A, and AD Smith. Local and post-breeding movements of Painted Buntings associated with molt. $3,500. Carolina Bird Club.

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2019

*McRae, S. Evaluating the use of autonomous recording units (ARUs) to survey Black Rails. $19,715. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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2018

*McRae,S. Inventory and assessment of secretive marshbirds: using eDNA to determine occupancy with a focus on Eastern Black Rail and King Rail. $27,352. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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2017

*Moore, C, and R. Cooper. Black Rail ecology to inform effective survey design and support population modelling. $172,907. U.S. Geological Survey.

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2016

Smith, AD, and W Wiest. Secretive marsh bird surveys on southeastern National Wildlife Refuges. $92,700. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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2016

Smith, AD, and A Given. Seasonal connectivity of MacGillivray’s Seaside Sparrow. $11,750. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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2016

*Given, A. Seasonal connectivity of MacGillivray’s Seaside Sparrrow. $4,800. Carolina Bird Club.

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2016

*McWilliams, SR. Automated telemetry monitoring of migratory birds. $7,426. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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2014

*McWilliams, SR. Acoustic monitoring of migrating bats and birds of Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuges. $33,038. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services.

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2010

*McWilliams, SR. Rapid assessment of fruits available to songbirds during fall migration. $9,276. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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2008

*Dufty, A. Migratory connectivity: linking raptors to their breeding areas. $17,900. Idaho Department of Fish and Game.

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N/A

2002

(Workshop) R tools for a code-based data workflow

USFWS Virtual Data Management Workshop

N/A

2020

• presented with M. Cobb
• Webinar recording

(Workshop) Motus wildlife tracking

ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve

Charleston, SC

2018

• presented with N. Wallover and F. Sanders

(Workshop) Using the Motus wildlife tracking network to study avian migration pathways through the southeastern United States

Association of Southeastern Biologists

Myrtle Beach, SC

2018

• presented with K. Lefevre and S. Mackenzie

Raster Processing in R

USFWS Geospatial Training Workshop

Shepherdstown, WV

2016

Scientific Computing and Programming for Coastal Resource Management: Fundamental Concepts and Open Access Tools

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, RI

2014

• co-instructor with J. Hollister and P. August

Teaching Assistant, Wildlife Management Techniques

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, RI

2012

Head Teaching Assistant, Human Anatomy and Physiology

Boise State University

Boise, ID

2004

Teaching Assistant, Human Anatomy and Physiology

Boise State University

Boise, ID

2003 - 2001

Smith AD, SR McWilliams, R Gray, and C DeSorbo. Southbound Merlin migration in southern New England and the mid-Atlantic (Automated telemetry symposium). North American Ornithological Conference

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2016

Smith AD Songbird migration and stopover dynamics along an ecological barrier. Connecticut College.

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2014

McWilliams, SR, A Smith, C Cooper-Mullin, and C Graham. Pump it up: how diet and body condition affect migratory movements of shorebirds and songbirds. North American Ornithological Conference.

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2020

Lefevre, KL and AD Smith. The case for expanding automated telemetry efforts across the Caribbean. North American Ornithological Conference.

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2020

McWilliams, SR, AD Smith, S Smith-Pagano, L Langlois, M Skrip, and B Pierce. What is good quality habitat for migrating songbirds? A nutritional and physiological perspective. North American Ornithological Conference.

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2016

Hofner, B, and AD Smith. Boosted zero-inflated negative binomial models for spatiotemporal abundance of sea birds. International Workshop on Statistical Modelling.

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2015

BC Jones, AD Smith, SE Bebus, and SJ Shoech. Spectating is stressful: witnessing two seconds of a predator attack increases levels of circulating glucocorticoids. Society for Integrative and Comparitive Biology.

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2015

Smith, AD, and SR McWilliams. Keeping fruit biochemistry in context: neighborhood influences on patterns of fruit consumption. Wilson Ornithological Society.

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2014

Smith, AD. Acoustic monitoring of migrating songbirds and bats in coastal Rhode Island. Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network.

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2014

Smith, AD. Coastal bat migration and weather: like the birds or for the birds. University of Rhode Island.

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2013

Smith, AD. What you don’t know can’t help you: linear mixed models in the environmental sciences. University of Rhode Island.

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2012

Smith, AD. Body condition influences the stopover decisions of a migratory songbird. University of Rhode Island.

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2010

Smith, AD. Inferring diets of migrating birds: are stable isotopes the answer? University of Rhode Island.

N/A

N/A

2009

Forrest Wallace, M.S. committee member

Florida Gulf Coast University

Fort Myers, FL

2021

David Tilson, M.S. committee member

University of Georgia

Athens, GA

2020

Sarah Donlan, Senior Honors Project

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, RI

2011

Undergraduate Natural Resources Science Research Apprenticeships (x2)

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, RI

2011