Tag: Josée Rousseau

Josée’s partnership with KBO began in 2004 after graduating from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Starting as an intern for the Redwood Sciences Laboratory, her position led her to become the Humboldt Bay Bird Observatory Program Manager under the KBO umbrella.

She is a certified North American Banding Council (NABC) Trainer and holds a GIS and Remote Sensing Certificate from Humboldt State University, California.

Her expertise in GIS and database management allowed her to participate in several projects from archiving banding and point count data into the Avian Knowledge Network, to mapping offshore bird surveys and estimating their density. She also participated in several projects for the Western Hummingbird Partnership.

In 2015, Josée pursued a PhD at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry, where she studied large-scale, year-round relationships between birds and their habitats. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, assessing the role of birds as indicators of pollinators.

Josée now works as an ecologist with Point Blue Conservation Science’s Sierra Nevada team. Her work continues to focus on studying bird population dynamics across landscapes and their interactions with the environment, with the ultimate goal of improving conservation outcomes.

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