Brandon Hays (former MSc student, UW)

Brandon Hays (former MSc student, UW)

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Biography

After a year-long stint at the Ipassa Research Center in Gabon, Brandon Hays (left) wore many hats: big-headed ant project manager, UHURU small-mammal trapper, Fulbright scholar, and professional handler of Drs. Goheen, Riginos, Palmer, and Pietrek. He officially joined our group in Spring 2018, and wrote a bang-up thesis on the demography of mutualism breakdown in Laikipia.

Brandon cut his teeth on Morris and Doak's demographic modeling book, and quickly gained some madd skillz in said techniques. In addition, we will never forget the near-collison between land rovers KAW (Rutherford), driven by Brandon at a top speed of 2km/hr, and KBG (Dookie), push-started at a top speed of 3km/hr.

Current position: PhD Student, Duke University

Recent Publications

Hays, B.R., C. Riginos, T.M. Palmer, B.C. Gituku, and J.R. Goheen. 2020. Using photography to estimate above-ground biomass of small trees. Journal of Tropical Ecology 36:213-219. PDF

Hays, B.R., C. Riginos, T.M. Palmer, D.F. Doak, B.C. Gituku, N.J. Maiyo, S. Mutisya, S. Musila, and J.R. Goheen. Demographic consequences of mutualism disruption: browsing and big-headed ant invasion drive acacia population declines. Ecology 103:e3655. PDF

Other

Brandon's Thesis, 2020