Expertise

Areas of Expertise:

  • Environmental policy
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Endangered species conservation, policy, and risk assessment
  • Human-wildlife conflict, including tiger and large mammal conservation

Dr. Philip Nyhus' interdisciplinary research bridges the natural and social sciences to address human interactions with the environment. He is particularly interested in the policy dimensions of human-wildlife conflict and endangered species conservation. His current research includes biodiversity risk assessment, GIS-based spatial models, large landscape conservation, and tiger and large mammal conservation in the US and Asia.

Communities
Environmental Science
Degrees
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Land Resources, 1999
MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Land Resources, 1994
BA, St. Olaf College, Biology, 1989