Jennifer Olker, Research Fellow

Position and Focus

Research interests include amphibian communities and wetland ecology.

Background

M.S. Biology, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2004
B.S. Biology and Mathematics, minor in Chemistry, Northland College, Ashland WI, 2000

Current Publications

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Jennifer Olker CV
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Landscape Metrics for Coastal Wetland Integrity Indices
To test existing landscape indicators of coastal marsh integrity that can be incorporated into a coastal wetland monitoring program. Using the same set of coastal marshes selected for the USGS project we will: 1) Evaluate the ability of individual landscape indicators to discriminate between reference, disturbed, and managed sites. 2) Analyze redundancy among landscape indicators and between landscape and site specific indicators. Because funds for monitoring are often tight, it is advantageous to maximize the amount of information relative sampling costs in a monitoring program. For example, it would not be wise to monitor more than one variable that conveyed the same information. Thus, one part of developing a multi-metric assessment is to evaluate redundancy among indicators. If there are indicators that are highly redundant, then the variable that is more expensive to monitor or is less useful may be eliminated from consideration.