Directory at the HPC²
Email
kristine@gri.msstate.edu
Office
HPC 211
Phone
(662) 325-3167
Alt. Phone
(662) 617-2643
Box 9627
Mississippi
kristine@gri.msstate.edu
Office
HPC 211
Phone
(662) 325-3167
Alt. Phone
(662) 617-2643
Box 9627
Mississippi
Email
kristine@gri.msstate.edu
Office
HPC 211
Phone
(662) 325-3167
Alt. Phone
(662) 617-2643
Box 9627
Mississippi
kristine@gri.msstate.edu
Office
HPC 211
Phone
(662) 325-3167
Alt. Phone
(662) 617-2643
Box 9627
Mississippi
Biography
Dr. Evans serves as Interim Director of the Geosystems Research Institute and Associate Professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture in the College of Forest Resources at Mississippi State University. She received her B.S. from Ohio University in 2000 with a major in Wildlife Biology and a certificate in Environmental Studies, then M.S. and Ph.D. in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries at Mississippi State University in 2004 and 2012. She served as Assistant Regional Data Manager for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wildlife Refuge System, Southeast Region Inventory and Monitoring Network (2012-2014), Geomatics Coordinator and Assistant Research Professor for the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative co-located in the Geosystems Research Institute (2014-2016), Assistant Professor of Conservation Biology in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture (2017-2022), and Associate Director of Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Geosystems Research Institute (2022-2026). She also co-directs the MSU Quantitative Ecology and Spatial Technologies Lab.
Research Interest
Conservation planning, avian ecology, geospatial applications, landscape conservation, landscape ecology, strategic habitat conservation, agricultural conservation, biological monitoring
Hobbies
Gardening, hiking, bird-watching
Selected Publications
Total Publications: 31
Gray, M. T., Evans, K. O., & Jones-Farrand, D. T. (2017). Landscape-scale Geospatial Assessment of Open Pine and Natural Grassland Condition for Northern Bobwhite in the Gulf Coastal Plains and Ozarks. Joint Quail Conference: 23rd Annual National Bobwhite Technical Committee Meeting and Eighth National Quail Symposium. Knoxville, TN: Quail 8. [Document]
Richardson, D., Evans, K. O., Smith, A., & Ertel, J. (2016). Bat Species Occurrence and Long-term Bat Population Monitoring on Refuges Using Acoustical Detection - 2012-2015 Summary. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region Inventory and Monitoring FY2016 I&M Interim Repo.
Pitchford, J. L., Pulis, E., Evans, K. O., Shelley, J. K., Serafin, B. S., & Solangi, M. (2016). Seasonal Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Density Estimates in the Mississippi Sound from 2011-2013. Southeastern Naturalist. 15(2), 188-206. DOI:10.1656/058.015.0201.
Oedekoven, C. S., Buckland, S. T., MacKenzie, M. L., King, R., Evans, K. O., & Burger, L. W. (2016). Using Hierarchical Centering to Facilitate a Reversible Jump MCMC Algorithm for Random Effects Models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 98(2016), 79-90. [Document Site]
Greene, R. E., Iglay, R. B., Evans, K. O., Miller, D. A., Wigley, T. B., & Riffell, S. K. (2016). A Meta-analysis of Biodiversity Responses to Management of Southeastern Pine Forests - Opportunities for Open Pine Conservation. Forest Ecology and Management. 360, 30-39. DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2015.10.007. [Abstract] [Document] [Document Site]
Richardson, D., Evans, K. O., Smith, A., & Ertel, J. (2016). Bat Species Occurrence and Long-term Bat Population Monitoring on Refuges Using Acoustical Detection - 2012-2015 Summary. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region Inventory and Monitoring FY2016 I&M Interim Repo.
Pitchford, J. L., Pulis, E., Evans, K. O., Shelley, J. K., Serafin, B. S., & Solangi, M. (2016). Seasonal Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops Truncatus) Density Estimates in the Mississippi Sound from 2011-2013. Southeastern Naturalist. 15(2), 188-206. DOI:10.1656/058.015.0201.
Oedekoven, C. S., Buckland, S. T., MacKenzie, M. L., King, R., Evans, K. O., & Burger, L. W. (2016). Using Hierarchical Centering to Facilitate a Reversible Jump MCMC Algorithm for Random Effects Models. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 98(2016), 79-90. [Document Site]
Greene, R. E., Iglay, R. B., Evans, K. O., Miller, D. A., Wigley, T. B., & Riffell, S. K. (2016). A Meta-analysis of Biodiversity Responses to Management of Southeastern Pine Forests - Opportunities for Open Pine Conservation. Forest Ecology and Management. 360, 30-39. DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2015.10.007. [Abstract] [Document] [Document Site]
