Hughey, Lacey
Ecologist, Program Coordinator
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Hughey, Lacey
Ecologist, Program Coordinator
Lacey Hughey's areas of expertise include movement ecology, landscape ecology, remote sensing, and conservation applications of animal movement data.
Positions
- Ecologist, Program Coordinator, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute 2019 -
Background And Education
Education And Training
- Ph.D. in Ecology, University of California, Santa Barbara , Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology 2014 - 2019
- B.A. in Conservation and Resource Studies, University of California, Berkeley 2007
Public Biography
- Lacey is an ecologist and program manager with fourteen years of experience leading research projects at the intersection of remote sensing and species conservation. She specializes in the application of animal tracking data to conserve migratory species on a changing planet and has managed research programs for the US National Park Service, University of California, and the Smithsonian Institution. Her work requires strong interdisciplinary collaborations and she enjoys finding connections between unconventional partners, especially artists and scientists.
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Wu, Zijing, Zhang, Ce, Gu, Xiaowei, Duporge, Isla, Hughey, Lacey F., Stabach, Jared A., Skidmore, Andrew K., Hopcraft, J. Grant C., Lee, Stephen J. J., Atkinson, Peter M., McCauley, Douglas J., Lamprey, Richard, Ngene, Shadrack, and Wang, Tiejun. 2023. "Deep learning enables satellite-based monitoring of large populations of terrestrial mammals across heterogeneous landscape." Nature Communications, 14, (1) 3072. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38901-y. 2023
- Mertes, Katherine, Ressijac, Catherine A., Moraes, Rosana N., Hughey, Lacey F., Alegre, Luisa H. Porto, Horning, Megan, Buk, Tara, Harwood, Arielle, Layman, Lawrence, Mathews, Christopher, Vance, Morgan, Reed, Dolores, Stabach, Jared A., and Goldenberg, Shifra Z. 2022. "Assessing neophobia and exploration while accounting for social context: an example application in scimitar-horned oryx." Mammalian Biology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-022-00271-1. 2022
- Majaliwa, M. M., Hughey, L. F., Stabach, J. A., Songer, Melissa, Whyle, K., Alhashmi, A. E. A., Al Remeithi, M., Pusey, R., Chaibo, H. A., Walsoumon, A. Ngari, Hatcha, M. Hassan, Wacher, T., Ngaba, C., Newby, J., Leimgruber, P., and Mertes, K. 2022. "Experience and social factors influence movement and habitat selection in scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) reintroduced into Chad." Movement Ecology, 10, (1) 47. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-022-00348-z. 2022
- Stabach, Jared A., Hughey, Lacey F., Crego, Ramiro D., Fleming, Christen H., Hopcraft, J. Grant C., Leimgruber, Peter, Morrison, Thomas A., Ogutu, Joseph O., Reid, Robin S., Worden, Jeffrey S., and Boone, Randall B. 2022. "Increasing Anthropogenic Disturbance Restricts Wildebeest Movement Across East African Grazing Systems." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.846171. 2022
- Benitez, Lorena, Kilian, J. Werner, Wittemyer, George, Hughey, Lacey F., Fleming, Chris H., Leimgruber, Peter, du Preez, Pierre, and Stabach, Jared A. 2022. "Precipitation, vegetation productivity, and human impacts control home range size of elephants in dryland systems in northern Namibia." Ecology and Evolution, 12, (9). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9288. 2022
- Hughey, Lacey F., Shoemaker, Kevin T., Stewart, Kelley M., McCauley, Douglas J., and Cushman, J. Hall. 2021. "Effects of human-altered landscapes on a reintroduced ungulate: Patterns of habitat selection at the rangeland-wildland interface." Biological Conservation, 257. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109086. 2021
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Conference Paper
- Kumar, Satish, Zhang, Bowen, Gudavalli, Chandrakanth, Levenson, Connor, Hughey, Lacey, Stabach, Jared A., Amoke, Irene, Ojwang, Gordon, Mukeka, Joseph, Mwiu, Stephen, Ogutu, Joseph, Frederick, Howard, and Manjunath, B. S. 2024. "WildlifeMapper: Aerial Image Analysis for Multi-Species Detection and Identification." in 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 12594–12604. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52733.2024.01197. 2024
