Dr. Alan (Bruce) Hitch has been with Stillwater since 2002, including time away to receive his M.S. in Biology and Ph.D. in Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. Bruce is an applied quantitative ecologist whose expertise includes time series analysis, spatial analysis, Bayesian hierarchical, ordinal, mixture, and occupancy modeling. He manages and analyzes large bat acoustic data sets to support hydro-relicensing efforts. Bruce has extensive experience in surveys for bats, birds, fish, amphibians, benthic macroinvertebrates, and water quality. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed publications that cover ecology and global disease surveillance. Bruce also conducts workshops on analytical topics like ecological modeling, spatial analysis, bat acoustics and the principles of good science to international collaborators in Africa, and Southeast and Central Asia. Bruce has a bent-toed gecko from Sulawesi, Indonesia named after him, Cyrtodactylus hitchi. In his free time, you can find him cycling, restoring vintage cars, and planting California native plants.

Education: PhD., Forestry and Wildlife Sciences; M.S., Biology; B.S., Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation BiologyPermits Held: California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Memorandum of Understanding for bald eagle and foothill yellow-legged frog
CDFW Scientific Collecting Permit (SCP) (#4518) for capture of bats throughout the state of California
CDFW SCP (#20023-002) northwestern pond turtle, foothill yellow-legged frog, Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog, and bald eagle
CDFW SCP (#21084-001) for foothill yellow-legged frog and hardhead