Hadrien P.A. VANTHOMME
Biodiversity & landscape ecologist
Biography
I am an ecologist with 15 years of experience designing, implementing, and coordinating biodiversity, ecosystem services, landscape, and natural resource management projects. Developed a scenario planning tool to manage working landscapes. Provided strategic leadership and operational direction of projects in Africa and South America. Raised and managed funds. Guided consensus building, provided influential expert recommendations, and effectively disseminated knowledge and best practices to the scientific community, private partners, governments, and the public through publications, conferences, and workshops. Very creative, proactive, thriving for excellence, and with a highly-organized approach. Veterinarian and ecologist with demonstrated skills in collecting and analyzing a range of data from social science to ecology, GIS, and remote sensing.
Professional Interests
Working landscape management
Landscapes need balance between 'green' and 'grey' infrastructure to provide ecosystem services and sustainable development. Created the 'Working Landscape simulator' tool using scenario planning to aid decision makers engage in sustainability
Biodiversity monitoring & assessments
Conducted multiple biodiversity assessments in central Africa and South America. Recognized large mammal expert, also coordinated multiple assessments including amphibians, reptiles, plants, fishes, and small mammals.
New conservation technologies
Passionate about new technologies, use camera traps, acoustic recorders, remote sensing, and drones to understand biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. In partnership with UTEC in Lima (Peru), developing new technologies for ecosystem monitoring.
Infrastructure & industry best practices
Partnered with multiple private sector operators to evaluate environmental impacts of large infrastructure and energy projects. Collaboratively developed best practices and new industry standards for a better environmental management of projects.
Statistics, modeling & spatial analyses
Population dynamics and distributions with GLM, Bayesian, & occupancy. Remote sensing & landscape change evaluation and projections. Participative evaluation of socio-economic data. Landscape connectivity and ecosystem services.
Teaching & professional training
Provided undergraduate and professional training on topics related to research interests: biodiversity monitoring, population dynamics, experimental designs, ecosystem services, mammal zoology. Mentored undergraduate and postgraduate students.