Zack Ruff

US FOREST SERVICE RESEARCH ASSISTANT

MS, Wildlife Ecology
Iowa State University
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Research Focus

Northern spotted owl bioacoustic monitoring

Deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to automatically identify bird species recorded in the field

RESEARCH GATE

Zack is a research assistant working primarily on the northern spotted owl bioacoustics project. His master's work at Iowa State University focused on the breeding behavior and demography of mountain plovers, and he has also previously worked with sage-grouse, blackbirds, and macaws. His research interests mostly center around avian and population ecology.