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Joel A. Schmutz is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on Ecology and Atmospheric Science within these broader domains.

Their work engages deeply with topics such as climate change and permafrost, avian ecology and behavior, species distribution and climate change, rangeland and wildlife management, indigenous studies and ecology, fish ecology and management studies, and the use of environmental DNA in biodiversity studies.

Within their publication record, Schmutz has contributed to several papers, including the following:

  • "Shifts in the wintering distribution and abundance of emperor geese in Alaska" (2020), published in Global Ecology and Conservation
  • "Movements and habitat use of loons for assessment of conservation buffer zones in the Arctic Coastal Plain of northern Alaska" (2020), published in Global Ecology and Conservation
  • "Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata)" (2020), published in Birds of the World
  • "In hot water? Patterns of macroinvertebrate abundance in Arctic thaw ponds and relationships with environmental variables" (2022), published in Freshwater Biology
  • "Early Goose Arrival Increases Soil Nitrogen Availability More Than an Advancing Spring in Coastal Western Alaska" (2020), published in Ecosystems

Frequent co-authors working with Schmutz include:

  • Brian D. Uher-Koch
  • Raymond M. Buchheit
  • Kirsty E. B. Gurney
  • Joshua C. Koch
  • Mark S. Wipfli

Schmutz's publications appear across several venues, with multiple contributions to Birds of the World and Global Ecology and Conservation as significant outlets, alongside others in Freshwater Biology, Ecosystems, and Waterbirds.

Best Publications

  • Increase in the rate and uniformity of coastline erosion in Arctic Alaska

    Benjamin M. Jones;C.D. Arp;M.T. Jorgenson;Kenneth M. Hinkel

  • Error in telemetry studies: Effects of animal movement on triangulation

    Joel A. Schmutz;Gary C. White

  • Winter survival of adult female harlequin ducks in relation to history of contamination by the Exxon Valdez oil spill

    Daniel Esler;Joel A. Schmutz;Robert L. Jarvis;Daniel M. Mulcahy

  • PREY DENSITY AND THE BEHAVIORAL FLEXIBILITY OF A MARINE PREDATOR: THE COMMON MURRE (URIA AALGE)

    Ann M. A. Harding;Ann M. A. Harding;John F. Piatt;Joel A. Schmutz;Michael T. Shultz

  • Ecological insights from three decades of animal movement tracking across a changing Arctic

    Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Sarah C. Davidson;Gil Bohrer;Eliezer Gurarie;Eliezer Gurarie;Scott LaPoint;Scott LaPoint

  • Determinants of reproductive costs in the long-lived Black-legged Kittiwake: A multiyear experiment

    Gregory H. Golet;Gregory H. Golet;Joel A. Schmutz;David B. Irons;James A. Estes

  • Relative effects of survival and reproduction on the population dynamics of emperor geese

    Joel A. Schmutz;Robert F. Rockwell;Margaret R. Petersen

  • Survival and pre-fledging body mass in juvenile emperor geese

    Joel A. Schmutz

  • Survival of greater white-fronted geese : Effects of year, season, sex, and body condition

    Joel A. Schmutz;Craig R. Ely

  • Arctic Lake Physical Processes and Regimes with Implications for Winter Water Availability and Management in the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska

    Benjamin M. Jones;Christopher D. Arp;Kenneth M. Hinkel;Richard A. Beck

  • Dynamic multistate site occupancy models to evaluate hypotheses relevant to conservation of Golden Eagles in Denali National Park, Alaska.

    Julien Martin;Julien Martin;Carol L. McIntyre;James E. Hines;James D. Nichols

  • Geographic, temporal, and age-specific variation in diets of Glaucous Gulls in western Alaska

    Joel A. Schmutz;Keith A. Hobson

  • Effects of neck collars and radiotransmitters on survival and reproduction of Emperor Geese

    Joel A. Schmutz;Julie A. Morse

  • Contrasting population trends of piscivorous seabirds in the Pribilof Islands: A 30-year perspective

    G. Vernon Byrd;Joel A. Schmutz;Heather M. Renner

  • An isotopic assessment of protein from diet and endogenous stores: Effects on egg production and incubation behaviour of geese

    Joel A. Schmutz;Keith A. Hobson;Julie A. Morse

  • Synthesis of Maternal Transfer of Mercury in Birds: Implications for Altered Toxicity Risk

    Joshua T. Ackerman;Mark P. Herzog;David C. Evers;Daniel A. Cristol

  • An adaptive-management framework for optimal control of hiking near golden eagle nests in Denali National Park.

    Julien Martin;Julien Martin;Paul L. Fackler;James D. Nichols;Michael C. Runge

  • Data logging of body temperatures provides precise information on phenology of reproductive events in a free-living arctic hibernator

    Cory T. Williams;Cory T. Williams;Michael J. Sheriff;Joel A. Schmutz;Franziska Kohl

  • High Seroprevalence of Antibodies to Avian Influenza Viruses among Wild Waterfowl in Alaska: Implications for Surveillance

    Heather M. Wilson;Jeffery S. Hall;Paul L. Flint;J. Christian Franson

  • Two mechanisms of aquatic and terrestrial habitat change along an Alaskan Arctic coastline

    Christopher D. Arp;Benjamin M. Jones;Joel A. Schmutz;Frank E. Urban

  • Process-Based Coastal Erosion Modeling for Drew Point, North Slope, Alaska

    Thomas M. Ravens;Benjamin M. Jones;Jinlin Zhang;Christopher D. Arp

  • Changes in abundance and spatial distribution of geese molting near Teshekpuk Lake, Alaska: interspecific competition or ecological change?

    Paul L. Flint;Edward J. Mallek;Rodney J. King;Joel A. Schmutz

  • Drivers of waterfowl population dynamics: from teal to swans

    David N. Koons;Gunnar Gunnarsson;Joel A. Schmutz;Jay J. Rotella

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark S. Lindberg
Mark S. Lindberg University of Alaska Fairbanks
Paul L. Flint
Paul L. Flint United States Geological Survey
Jeffrey M. Welker
Jeffrey M. Welker University of Oulu
Karen H. Beard
Karen H. Beard Utah State University
J. Christian Franson
J. Christian Franson United States Geological Survey
James S. Sedinger
James S. Sedinger University of Nevada Reno
David H. Ward
David H. Ward United States Geological Survey
Robert F. Rockwell
Robert F. Rockwell American Museum of Natural History
Julien Martin
Julien Martin United States Geological Survey
Benjamin M. Jones
Benjamin M. Jones University of Alaska Fairbanks

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