Erik Sandvig

Erik Sandvig

Quantitative Ecologist

Centro Bahía Lomas, Universidad Santo Tomás

Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile (ROC)

Bio

I am a quantitative ecologist and researcher working on the population dynamics, survival, and conservation status of birds in Chile and the wider Neotropics. I hold a PhD in Zoology from the University of Oxford and have since worked on long-term demographic studies of forest birds in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, survival modeling with the Swiss Ornithological Institute, and shorebird and waterbird monitoring across Chile with the Red de Observadores de Aves y Vida Silvestre de Chile (ROC). My work combines large citizen-science datasets (eBird) with mark-recapture, mixed-effects, and integral projection models in R to produce robust, reproducible estimates for conservation decision-making.
Current Projects

State of Chile’s Birds — a national state-of-the-birds report built from eBird Status & Trends data and AVONET trait data, summarizing population trends and conservation status across Chilean avifauna.

CCAP Chile Shorebirds — population estimates for Chilean shorebirds in collaboration with Manomet, replicating and extending prior (Faria et al.) methodology with improved glmmTMB-based models.

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