Tom out in a field with binoculars

Thomas Rodhouse

Adjunct Teaching Faculty

Cascades address 1500 SW Chandler, Ave.
650 SW Columbia Street
Bend, OR 97702
United States

Credentials
Ph.D. in Natural Resources, University of Idaho
M.S. in Biogeography, Oregon State University
B.S. in Wildlife Science, Oregon State University
B.S. in Anthropology, Lewis and Clark College
Statistics Graduate Coursework Certificate, University of Idaho
Additional Information


Selected Publications:

Price, S., C.R. Kluender, M.J. Germino, T.J. Rodhouse. 2025. Reliability of satellite-based vegetation maps for planning wildfire-fuel treatments in shrub steppe: Inferences from two contrasting national parks. Journal of Environmental Management. 387:125808.

C. Rieber, C. Stratton, T.J. Rodhouse, K.M. Irvine, 2024. Code vignette for application of a Bayesian single-season, single-species occupancy model for assessing silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) occurrence in Oregon and Washington, 2019, U.S. Geological Survey software release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P14E4Z9R

Sparklin, B.D., K.E. Doherty, T.J. Rodhouse, J.J. Lonneker, J. Spaak, T.B. Cross, J.M. Warren. 2024. An assessment of conservation opportunities within sagebrush ecosystems of US national parks and wildlife refuges. Rangeland Ecology and Management 97:94-106.  

Whipple, A.L., L.A. Wiechman, T.Y. Hasson, P.A. Deibert, K. Doherty, K.A. Gollnick, M. Kales, L. Makarick, J.M. Pollet, F.R. Quamen, T.J. Rodhouse, and K. Swartz. 2024. Sagebrush collaborative restoration landscapes to support management efforts improving fire resiliency and restoration in the sagebrush biome: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13S6KW7.

Stratton, C, A. Hoegh, T.J. Rodhouse, J.L. Green, K.M. Banner, K.M. Irvine. 2024. Clustering and unconstrained ordination with Dirichlet process mixture models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15:1720-1732. 

Goldman, M.R., M. Shinderman, M.R. Jeffress, T.J. Rodhouse, K.T. Shoemaker. 2023. Integrating multiple sign types to improve occupancy estimation for inconspicuous species. Ecology and Evolution 13:e10019. 

Sagatelova, M., R.A. Rodriguez-Pena, T.J. Rodhouse, J. Lonneker, K.R. Sherrill, and A.D. Wolfe. 2023. Conservation genomics and species distribution models motivate proactive and collaborative conservation in an era of rapid change. Bioinformatics and Systems Biology 6:291-313. 

Rodhouse, T.J., and S. Daw. 2022. Monitoring the migrators: tracking the animals passing through our parks. Frontiers for Young Minds 10:696621. doi: 10.3389/frym.2022.696621.