FORMER MEMBER
POSTDOCTORAL NETWORK | Global Change Center
While at Virginia Tech, Dr. Trumbo was a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in the Biology Department and Global Change Center at Virginia Tech. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at Colorado State University, completed his PhD at Washington State University, Masters at Saint Louis University, and Bachelors of Science at U.C. San Diego.
His primary research interests include (1) landscape genetics / genomics, (2) species distribution modeling / ecological niche modeling, and (3) Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based spatial analyses of rare and endangered species, habitat mapping, and conservation policy. He utilizes online GIS databases and field data (e.g., telemetry, water chemistry, forest cover, topography, etc.) to address questions related to habitat resistance and conductance to wildlife movement and gene flow on the landscape and waterscape. Much of his research to date has been aimed at understanding the fundamental ecological and evolutionary processes underlying the formation and maintenance of species’ geographic range limits, or in other words, attempting to answer the question of ‘why do species’ range limits occur where they do?’ The study of species’ range limits is a particularly timely subject in conservation biology, given ongoing global climate change and the resulting shifts in a myriad of species’ ranges on a massive global scale.
Last updated 06/01/2023.
