Caitlin Mandeville
Background and activities
I am a PhD student working jointly at the Department of Natural History and the Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics. Together with the interdisciplinary Transforming Citizen Science for Biodiversity team, I am investigating effective applications of citizen science datasets to ecological research. Broadly, I'm interested in freshwater community ecology, human impacts on species distributions and interactions, and the transformative impact of citizen science.
My PhD research is funded by the NTNU Digital Transformation initiative. My primary PhD supervisor is Anders Finstad (NTNU), and I am also supervised by Erlend Nilsen (NINA), Bob O'Hara (NTNU), and Francesca Verones (NTNU).
Before coming to NTNU, I conducted freshwater ecology research for my MS degree at the University of Wyoming (you can read more about this work here) and implemented citizen science programming in a coastal science setting with New Hampshire Sea Grant. Outside of work, you’ll find me exploring the outdoors through trail running, skiing, bicycling, and more. As a newcomer to Norway from the US, I’m enthusiastic about exploring as much of the natural beauty that Norway has to offer as possible!
Courses
- BI2001 - Biogeography and Biosystematics
- BI2098 - Experts in Teamwork - Saving the World is not Rocket Science
Scientific, academic and artistic work
2021
- (2021) Community science supports research on protected area resilience. Conservation Science and Practice (CSP). vol. 3 (7).
- (2021) Open Data Practices among Users of Primary Biodiversity Data. BioScience. vol. 71 (11).
- (2021) Ecologist engagement in translational science is imperative for building resilience to global change threats. Rethinking Ecology. vol. 6.
2019
- (2019) Integrating fish assemblage data, modeled stream temperatures, and thermal tolerance metrics to develop thermal guilds for water temperature regulation: Wyoming case study. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. vol. 148 (4).