Education
- PhD, Statistics, North Carolina State University
Experience
Dr. Royle is a Research Statistician at the Eastern Ecological Science Center (USGS). His research focuses on the application of probability and statistics to ecological problems, especially those related to animal sampling and demographic modeling. His recent research has been devoted to the development of spatially explicit capture-recapture models as applied to camera trapping and DNA sampling in animal population studies. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 journal articles, and co-authored the books Spatial Capture-Recapture, Hierarchical Modeling and Inference in Ecology and Occupancy Estimation and Modeling: Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence, all published by Academic Press.
