I recently started a new position with the USDA’s Forest Service as a Regional Analyst - Natural Resource Specialist with the Renewable Resources Unit in the Eastern Region (R9), USDA’s Forest Service in June of 2019.
Short Bio: I am an ecologist by training and has worked as an Aquatic Ecologist with National Parks Service Inventory & Monitoring Network, and as a Post-doctoral fellow in c/o Environmental Protection Agency Western Ecological Division. I have been involved in assessing the current status and long-term natural resource trends and modeled watershed condition. I recently joined the Region 9 Renewable Resources staff as the Regional Analyst and will be involved in landscape level analysis efforts involving forest ecosystem datasets. I work in various analysis approaches, techniques, and software programs for purposes including geospatial assessment, vegetation analysis, bioassessment, watershed condition, ecosystem dynamics, economics, and wildlife habitat. I play a supportive role in addressing a wide array of analysis needs in the forest planning process and is excited to provide input and analysis for cross discipline large scale landscape resource management. I hold a BS in Geography (GIS & Remote Sensing Focus) & BA in Environmental Studies from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, MS in Biology (Freshwater Ecology Focus) from Kansas State University, and PhD in Fisheries and Wildlife (Aquatic Landscape Ecology Focus) from Michigan State University.
Darren Thornbrugh, PhD
Regional Analyst
Forest Service
Eastern Region, R9
626 E Wisconsin Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53202
www.fs.fed.us
Caring for the land and serving people