Who We Are:

We are a group of interdisciplinary scientists working on current visitor use management issues in parks and protected areas. Our research focuses on understanding the impacts of outdoor recreation on ecosystems (recreation ecology) and the human behaviors that lead to both social and ecological impacts. To learn more about who we are please visit our People page and to learn more about current projects in the lab please visit our Projects and Publications page. Current opportunities with our group will be listed under Opportunities. 

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Latest Research Group News! 

9/13/23: New lab paper! Congrats to Susie Sidder, another chapter from her dissertation was published in SNR this week. This chapter presents a framework for how animal movement theory could be applied to visitor use.

8/18/23: Congrats to Dr. Lara Jacobs for successfully defending her dissertation today! She'll start a postdoc with Michigan State University's STEM PACER lab this Fall!

5/15/23: New lab paper! One of the chapters from Dr. Sidder's dissertation work was published this week in Landscape and Urban Planning. She applied tools and methods from wildlife ecology to predict the movement of kayakers in Glacier Bay National Park. 

3/3/2023: Congrats to Dr. Susie Sidder for the successful defense of her dissertation! Dr. Sidder is currently the Visitor Use Management Program Manager at Glacier National Park. 

9/13/22: Dr. Ashley D'Antonio has a new, first-author paper out today in Applied Geography focused on the feasibility of using agent-based modeling to understand recreation use in off-trail areas. 
 

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Contact

Address: Oregon State University
                 Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society
                 321 Richardson Hall
                 Corvallis, Oregon
                 97331

Office: 318 Richardson Hall

Email: Ashley.D'Antonio@oregonstate.edu

Let it be acknowledged that Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR is located within the traditional homelands of the Mary's River or Ampinefu Band of Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya etc. Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in Western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (https://www.grandronde.org) and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians (https://ctsi.nsn.us).