Troy Merrill is the Research Director of LTB Institute of Landscape Ecology, a
not-for-profit research organization in Moscow, Idaho, U.S.A. He is responsible for identifying appropriate areas in which to conduct applied research, develop a research plan and secure funding for that plan. Prior to assuming his present position, Mr. Merrill was the Director of the Landscape Dynamics Lab at the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Idaho. Troy has been actively involved landscape scale ecological research since 1993. During that period Mr. Merrill has made significant contributions to or taken the lead on a wide variety of projects ranging from: analyzing increases in the protection of biological diversity provided by competing Wilderness proposals in Idaho; quantifying and mapping current and historical fire regimes in the Interior Columbia River Basin; characterizing and mapping the distribution of biological diversity in the Russian Far East; development of a conservation plan for Amur (Siberian) tigers in the RFE; and, the development and application of grizzly bear habitat suitability models in North America. These projects are indicative of Troy’s interest in how the ecology and biology of a landscape interact, the mechanisms by which they may be disrupted and, the technical skills required to construct the spatially explicit data sets required for their analysis.

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