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PhD, Enivronmental Science, Policy and Management

• Dissertation: Synthesis approaches to quantifying biodiversity change, tools, and applications
• Advisor: Dr. Carl Boettiger

BS Conservation and Restoration Ecology, BS Statistics

• Thesis: Biodiversity prioritization: A comparison of data types

Biological Scientist (Ecological Data Scientist)

BIOS2 Postdoctoral Fellow

• Mentor: Dr. Timothée Poisot

Software Developer

• Developed pipelines for translating species observation data into monitoring networks, including implementing algorithms for site selection.

BON in a Box

• Tools for monitoring network and Essential Biodiversity Variable (EBV) calculation.

taxaDB

• R package for fast, consistent access to taxanomic data providers.

BIOS2 Postdoctoral Fellowship for Persistence

• Project: Large-scale ecosystem modeling for biodiversity monitoring, $35,000

Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship

• Project: Development of multi-taxa joint species distribution models, $150,000

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (Deferred)

• Project: Development of multi-taxa joint species distribution models $96,000

NSF NRT Fellowship, Data Science for the 21st Century

• $20,000

Undergraduate Research and Creative Opportunities Grant

• Project: Climate change impacts on the Uinta Ground Squirrel, $2,000

Undergraduate Research Fellowship

• $4,000

Quinney Scholar Fellowship, Quinney College of Natural Resources, Utah State University

• $16,000

Utah State University Presidential Scholar

• $12,000

Regents Scholar

• $6,000

• Outstanding Statistics Undergraduate, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University
• Utah State University College Honors, Utah State University

Teaching Assistant (Reproducible and Collaborative Data Science, ESPM 288)

• Led weekly lab sessions, developed teaching resources for a class with varied coding background.

Python Tutor (Self Employed)

• Developed exercises for teaching basic to intermediate Python concepts.

Teaching in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management (Training Course)

Invited Seminars

• “Synthesis approaches to assessing biodiversity change: yesterday and tomorrow’s data”, 2023, Department of Biology, University of Montreal
• “A computational approach to biodiversity change: does function follow richness?”, 2018, Oakridge National Lab

Invited Symposia

• “Evaluating the evidence of widespread maintenance of functional diversity in vertebrate communities”, 2022, Unifying Ecology Across Scales Gordon Research Seminar
• “A computational approach to biodiversity change”, 2021, Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Program Review
• “Ecosystem stability is related to animal diversity dynamics at a continental scale”, 2021, Leveraging FAIR data to discover new connections in ecology Symposium, Ecological Society of America Meeting

Contributed Talks

• KE Norman, P. de Valpine, and C Boettiger, “Evaluating the evidence of widespread maintenance of functional diversity in vertebrate communities”, Ecological Society of America, Montréal, CA, August 2022.
• KE Norman and C Boettiger, “Global functional diversity trends, a lens for detecting biodiversity change”, Ecological Society of America, Salt Lake City UT, August 2020.
• KE Norman and L Aubry, “Demographic Consequences of Climate Change in a Hibernator, the Uinta Ground Squirrel”, Utah State Student Research Symposium, Utah State University, April 2015.
• KE Norman and S Null, “Modeling Streamflow in the Wasatch Mountain Region with Climate Change”, iUtah Cohort Session, Salt Lake City, August 2013.

Contributed Posters

• KE Norman and A Boyer, “Measuring biodiversity change: does function follow richness?”, International Biogeography Society Conference, January 2019.
• KE Norman and E White, “Biodiversity Prioritization: A comparison of data types”, Gordon Research Conference: Unifying Ecology Across Scales, University of New England, July 2016.
• KE Norman and L Aubry, “Demographic Consequences of Climate Change in the Uinta Ground Squirrel”, Research on Capitol Hill, Salt Lake City, January 2016.
• KE Norman and E White, “Biodiversity Prioritization: A comparison of data types”, Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, August 2015.

Research Fellow

• PI: Dr. Alison Boyer
• Synthesized and standardized functional trait databases, developed a cloud-based workflow for calculating functional diversity null models.

Botanist

• Supervisor: Mike Duncan
• Established long-term range land quality monitoring system, completed ground-truthing for development of a state-wide vegetation map.

Undergraduate Research Fellow

• PI: Dr. Ethan White
• Created biodiversity maps of bird species in North America using PostgreSQL and Python programming language, code found at www.github.com/weecology/diversity-conservation.

Undergraduate Research Fellow

• PI: Dr. Lise Aubry
• Performed surveys of Uinta Ground Squirrel populations, assessed demography using Capture-Mark-Recapture Robust Design model in RMark.

DAAD Rise Research Intern, University of Göttingen

• PI: Dr. Lise Aubry
• Developed model to predict forest biomass from LiDAR data using mixed effects and nonparametric modeling approaches.

University

• ESPM Student Grant Review Panel 2017
• Vice President, USU Chapter, Society for Range Management, 2015-2016
• Wildland Dept. Rep., Natural Resources Student Council, 2013-2016
• Founding Member, Ecology Club, 2014

Peer Review

• Nature Biodiversity Reviews, Conservation Biology, Plant Diversity, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, ROpenSci Package Review

External

• Awards Committee Co-Chair, Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary, 2022-2023
• Beetles and Forecasting Working Groups, National Ecological Observation Network Technical Working Group, 2022-2023
• Organizational Committee Chair, Expanding Your Horizons Network, 2016 – 2020