***Please note that this page is no longer being updated. I have transitioned to a position as a Mathematical Statistician at U.S. EPA.
I’m Kelsey Vitense, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at the University of Minnesota. I am currently working with Dr. Gretchen Hansen on assessing light and temperature conditions in Minnesota lakes to help guide walleye management. For my doctoral research, I worked on methods for classifying and predicting transitions between clear- and turbid-water alternative stable states in shallow lakes. Please see my Research page for more information.
As a quantitative ecologist, I am broadly interested in applications of mathematical and statistical models to ecological and natural resource problems. My specific research interests include modeling and simulation of dynamical systems, Bayesian methods of inference, and, more recently, machine learning.
Kelsey Vitense 