Publications
This page includes popular writing and scientific publications. You can also check out my Google Scholar profile
Popular & Professional Writing
Essays
- Finding Earth Engine Data Doesn’t Have to Be a Struggle: Let AI Agents Do the Heavy Lifting – Use AI agents to search Google Earth Engine datasets instead of manually browsing cryptic collection pages.
- Building an Agentic Scientific Research Team with Google’s Agent Development Kit – Build a multi-agent research team using Google’s Agent Development Kit to automate literature review and methodology extraction.
Posts
- M-PACE: Multimodal GenAI Compliance – Evaluate multimodal LLM compliance for vision and text capabilities, balancing accuracy, cost, and latency.
- Teaching GenAI to think before speaking – Safety-aware chain-of-thought and Monte Carlo Tree Search help LLMs reason through multiple paths before responding.
- Jagged Frontier – Part 3: Blind Trust at the Edge – How direct LLM output copying (“retainment”) signals success within the jagged frontier but leads to errors outside it.
- Jagged Frontier – Part 2 – Introduction to Centaur and Cyborg collaboration styles—distinct vs. blended human-AI teamwork patterns.
- Jagged Frontier - part 1 – The jagged frontier concept: the unpredictable boundary between what AI handles well and poorly.
- Author-affiliations: A Python Tool for NSF Proposal Writers – Automate NSF COA document creation by pulling author and affiliation metadata from Crossref and OpenAlex.
- AI and Academic Writing: Ethical Integrity – Propose including AI prompt logs in academic publishing to support ethical transparency and reduce language barriers.
- AI and Accessibility in Academia: A Step Toward Inclusion – GenAI technologies like LLMs and vectorization reduce barriers for disabled and non-native English-speaking researchers.
- AI and Mitigating Bias in Academia – How GenAI both introduces and mitigates bias in academic writing, with focus on responsible tool use.
Scientific Publications
Publications and Patents
^Abelson, E.S., B. Seymoure, E.K. Perkin, A. Jechow, H. Moon, C.C.M. Kyba, F. Holker, J. White, T. Longcore. Ecological Aspects and Measurement of artificial light at night. Ecology Letters. In revision. Preprint available on SSRN: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4353905 PDF
*Valler, J., S. Riley, D.T. Blumstein, ^E.S. Abelson. Impact of extreme heat events on puma movement near the urban-wildland interface. Western Wildlife. In prep.
^Abelson, E.S. White-flash film camera traps affect behavior and bias data collected for deer, Odocoileus hemionus. Western Wildlife. In prep.
Russo, N., K. Gahm, M. Zuercher, K. Hernandez, R. Blakey, C. Niesner, E.S. Abelson. Monitoring animal movement diversity as a component of biodiversity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. (2025) PDF
Contina, A., E.S. Abelson, B. Allison, B. Stokes, K.F. Sanchez, H.M. Hernandez, A.M. Kepple, Q. Tran, I. Kazen, K.A. Brown, H.J. Powell, T.H. Keitt. BioSense, an automated sensing node for organismal and environmental biology. HardwareX. (2024) PDF
Barrientos, R., W. Vickers, T. Longcore, E.S. Abelson, J. Dellinger, D.P. Waetjen, G. Fandos, F.M. Shilling. Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. (2023) PDF
*Nojoumi, M., A.P. Clevenger, D.T. Blumstein, ^E.S. Abelson. Vehicular Traffic Effects on Elk and White-tailed Deer at Wildlife Crossings in Banff National Park. PLOS ONE. 17(11): e0269587. (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269587) (2022) PDF
^Abelson, E.S., K.M. Reynolds, A.M. White, J.W. Long, C. Maxwell, P.N. Manley. Evaluating pathways to social and ecological landscape resilience. Ecology and Society. 27(4):8. (https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13243-270408) (2022) PDF
White, A.M., T.G. Holland, E.S. Abelson, A. Kretchun, C.J. Maxwell, R.M. Scheller. Simulating wildlife habitat dynamics to inform best management strategies under a changing climate in the Lake Tahoe basin, California. Ecology and Society. 27. (doi:10.5751/ES-13301-270231) (2022) PDF
^Abelson, E.S., J. Sikich, S. Riley, D.T. Blumstein. Influence of anthropogenic light on puma road crossing movement. bioRxiv: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.28.514303 (2022) PDF
Keitt T., E.S. Abelson. Ecology in the age of automation. Science 373:6557, 858-859 (2021) PDF
Niesner, C.A., R.V. Blakey, D.T. Blumstein, ^E.S. Abelson. Wildlife affordances of urban infrastructure: a framework to understand human-wildlife space use. Frontiers in Conservation Science. 2:774137 (2021) PDF
^Abelson, E.S., K.M. Reynolds, P. N. Manley, S. Paplanus. Strategic decision support for long-term conservation management planning. Forest Ecology and Management. 497 (2021) PDF
Miller, A.B., D. King, M. Rowland, J. Chapman, M. Tomosy, C. Liang, E.S. Abelson, R. Truex. Sustaining wildlife with recreation on public lands: a synthesis of research findings, management practices, and research needs. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-993. Portland, OR: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 226 p. 993 (2020). PDF
^Abelson, E.S. Big brains reduce extinction risk in Carnivora. Oecologia (2019) PDF
*Neco, L.C., E.S. Abelson, B. Natterson-Horowitz, D.T. Blumstein. The evolution of self-medication behaviour in mammals. Biol J Linn Soc 128, 373-378 (2019) PDF
Boyston, E.E., E.S. Abelson, *A. Kazanjian, D.T. Blumstein. Canid vs. canid: insights into coyote-dog encounters from social media. Human Wildlife Interactions. (2018) 12(2), 9 PDF
^Abelson, E.S. Brain size is correlated with endangerment status in mammals. Proc. R. Soc. B. Vol. 283. No. 1825. The Royal Society, 2016. PDF
Garcia-Molina, H., *S. Kandel, A. Paepcke, M. Theobald, and E.S. Abelson. ‘Spreadsheet system and method for managing photos,’ Patent publication number: US 2010/0058163 A1 U.S. Classification: 715/220 PDF
Sundaresan, S., C. Riginos, E.S. Abelson. Storage and analysis of camera trap data: alternative approaches (Response to Harris et al. 2010). The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 92.2 (2011): 188-195. PDF
Kandel, S., E.S. Abelson, H. Garcia-Molina, A. Paepcke & M. Theobald. 2008. PhotoSpread: a spreadsheet for managing photos. Computer/Human Interactions, 2008 Proceedings 1749-1758. Available online at: http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8090/pub/2007-28 PDF
Scientific Report
Jonathan W. Long, Patricia N. Manley, Angela M. White, Keith M. Slauson, Stacy A. Drury, Eric S. Abelson, Brandon M. Collins, Keith Reynolds, William Elliot and I. Sue Miller, Rob Scheller, Charles Maxwell, Mariana Dobre, Erin Brooks, Sam Evans, Tim Holland, Matthew Potts, Adrian Harpold, Sebastian Krogh Navarro, John Mejia, Chad Hoffman, Justin Ziegler. Lake Tahoe West Science Summary of Findings Report. Supporting long-term forest resilience in the Lake Tahoe basin. Lake Tahoe West Restoration Partnership. (November 3, 2020) PDF