Sentences with phrase «conservation biologist in»

Professor Callum Roberts is a marine conservation biologist in the Environment Department.

Most prominent among the renegade land - trust leaders: Robert Keller, a brash conservation biologist in Georgia who has built an empire through syndicated easements.

When Soulé laid out his manifesto for conservation biologists in the 1980s, he portrayed humanity as the wrecking ball laying waste to earth — and what was left of wild nature.

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They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

He has been a practicing ornithologist and conservation biologist for 30 years, specializing in integrating behavioral studies of rare and endangered bird species with habitat conservation planning.

Titled «The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation,» the book — published in March 2018 — is written by a collection of authors from zoos and aquariums, including Shedd Aquarium's Vice President of Conservation Research Dr. Chuck Knapp, as well as an impressive roster of university - based historians, biologists, ethicists and social scientists.

So researchers led by Ullas Karanth, a tiger biologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York City, turned to poop.

The reserve is one of the largest in the world and has been heralded as a huge success, but this study, led by conservation biologist Leah Gerber of Arizona State University in Tempe, highlights one possible down - side to the reserve.

The good news, at least for now: No bat deaths have been attributed to the disease in Missouri, says bat biologist Tony Elliott with the state's Department of Conservation.

Ten years later, after a stint teaching high school in the South Bronx, she returned to the country with her then - husband, biologist Michael Fay, to run a small conservation project for the World Wildlife Fund in the newly established Dzanga - Ndoki National Park.

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

By the end I was hooked: I knew that I wanted to continue working as a biologist in the realm of international cooperation, contributing to nature conservation and the transfer of knowledge.

The quotation is a favorite of George Schaller, considered the finest field biologist of our time and the most powerful voice for conservation in more than 100 years.

Field biologist Emma Stokes was working for the Wildlife Conservation Society in the forests of northern Congo in 2008 when she and her team announced the discovery of 125,000 western lowland gorillas, doubling the known number of that species.

The issue took center stage this week here at the International Congress for Conservation Biology when Neil Burgess, a conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen who has worked with the WWF in Tanzania, projected a cartoon that conservationists there used depicting a montane landscape with and Conservation Biology when Neil Burgess, a conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen who has worked with the WWF in Tanzania, projected a cartoon that conservationists there used depicting a montane landscape with and conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen who has worked with the WWF in Tanzania, projected a cartoon that conservationists there used depicting a montane landscape with and without PES.

Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows that private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land.

Dyer and Smilanich, noted biologists in the University's biology department, also teach in the Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology graduate program.

For the last 12 years the lab of ornithology had been involved in research and conservation and training, building of capacity with biologists and scientists from Cuba.

Most of Davidar's former students work in conservation, although some are academic biologists.

The findings, published in this month's issue of Conservation Biology, support the growing belief among biologists that nature preserves should be large enough to provide a buffer zone around the edges to protect a central core.

In addition to Barrows, the authors are Michelle Murphy - Mariscal, lead biologist for the Western Riverside Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, and Rebecca Hernandez, an assistant professor at UC Davis who was previous a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.

In a richly illustrated, 400 - page tome, Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States, published by Oxford University Press, the groups present what conservation biologist Peter Kareiva of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls «the most extraordinary assemblage of biodiversity data ever published.&raquIn a richly illustrated, 400 - page tome, Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States, published by Oxford University Press, the groups present what conservation biologist Peter Kareiva of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls «the most extraordinary assemblage of biodiversity data ever published.&raquin the United States, published by Oxford University Press, the groups present what conservation biologist Peter Kareiva of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls «the most extraordinary assemblage of biodiversity data ever published.»

Across the Appalachian divide from Fould's Creek, biologist Bill McShea has spent the past 14 years studying the forest at the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia.

But, according to evolutionary biologist John Gittleman of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the research raises the point that «it's not effective to do conservation science one species at a time.

Ctenomys erikacuellarae was named in honor of Erika Cuellar, a Rolex award - winning conservation biologist from Bolivia who participated in field expeditions as a student in the 1990s.

In this episode, biologist, ecologist and Pulitzer Prize - winning writer Jared Diamond discusses the environmental state of the world and the relationship between the environment and economics and politics in remarks at a recent benefit for the organization Conservation InternationaIn this episode, biologist, ecologist and Pulitzer Prize - winning writer Jared Diamond discusses the environmental state of the world and the relationship between the environment and economics and politics in remarks at a recent benefit for the organization Conservation Internationain remarks at a recent benefit for the organization Conservation International.

To see where cowbirds reproduce most successfully, conservation biologist Rachael Winfree of Princeton University in New Jersey compared nests in an old field to those in a patch of forest.

«We found that prized sportfish, such as Brook trout and the smaller fish that trout eat, are disappearing from lakes where species of Bass have expanded their habitats,» said Karen Alofs, a postdoctoral researcher working with ecologist and conservation biologist Donald Jackson in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at U of T, describing a study published this week in Proceeding of the Royal Society B.

5) Hidden Mountains Google Earth also served as the window into an important find for conservation biologist Julian Bayliss, then with the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in England.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

That folded posture «creates a buoy» that stabilizes the snake so it can nab prey in choppy water, says study coauthor Brooke Bessesen, a conservation biologist at Osa Conservation, a biodiversity - focused nonprofit in Washiconservation biologist at Osa Conservation, a biodiversity - focused nonprofit in WashiConservation, a biodiversity - focused nonprofit in Washington, D.C..

«By understanding how this animal adapts to changes in the environment, we can determine what we really need to be concerned about and what we really should be doing,» says Stephen DeStefano, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of the new book, Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia (Harvard University Press, 2010).

«That's like gold cocaine,» says Samuel Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

«Anyone who has spent time on the ocean over the last 20 or 30 years will tell you that they used to see lots of sharks and that they don't anymore,» says Boris Worm, a marine conservation biologist and leading expert in shark populations at Dalhousie University in Canada.

«Everyone suspected that there was something in [the footprints],» says Agnieszka Sergiel, a biologist at the Polish Academy of Sciences» Institute of Nature Conservation and a co-author of the study, which was published recently in Scientific Reports.

Travis Livieri, a conservation biologist with Prairie Wildlife Research in Wellington, Colorado, lauds the effort.

Revive & Restore expects to see much more progress in the coming decade given the recent focus on the topic by geneticists, conservation biologists and environmentalists.

High - life monkey: Nature Conservation Foundation biologists on an expedition in India announced the serendipitous find of a new monkey.

«A long list of silly examples of complications caused by poor taxonomic governance» pushed conservation biologist Stephen Garnett of Charles Darwin University in Darwin to cowrite the piece.

Recently, some Iowa counties» departments of transportation are actively returning roadsides to the classic prairie vegetation — more to reduce maintenance costs than to benefit wildlife, says Leslie Ries, a conservation biologist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

«The price is just like drugs,» says Lorenzo Rojas - Bracho, a marine conservation biologist at the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change in Ensenada, Mexico, and chair of the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA).

But David Garshelis, a conservation biologist at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Grand Rapids and co-chair of IUCN's Bear Specialist Group, disagrees.

You also can probably name many reasons not to sit in a field counting grains of pollen, an activity that conservation biologist Claire Kremen thinks is a perfectly reasonable way to spend an afternoon.

«We did not anticipate going out on that survey and not seeing a single baiji, and not hearing a single whistle,» says Barbara Taylor, a conservation biologist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, and a member of CIRVA.

So Jewgenow's colleague at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin, conservation biologist Christian Voigt, suggested using triatomine bugs.

«Slowing the rate of biodiversity loss wasn't a good target,» says Benjamin Skolnik, a conservation biologist at the American Bird Conservancy in Washington, D.C. «It wasn't rigorous enough.»

«The rainforests of Western Equatorial Africa contain most of the world's gorillas and about one - third of all chimpanzees, and gorillas in particular are being severely and negatively impacted by human activities across their range,» said Dr. Fiona Maisels, WCS Conservation Biologist and a contributor to the plan.

Conservation biologists often need to predict where rare species are capable of living — for selecting the best site for a national park, for example, or forecasting how badly a species» range will suffer as the climate changes in the future.

«That's allowed them to develop a picture of the distribution of tigers in a way that we haven't had before,» says John Seidensticker, a tiger conservation biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.

Joel Berger, a biologist at the University of Montana in Missoula and the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered in New York, and lead author of the study, says that the work was inspired by an older study that found increases in wildlife poaching in oil and gas boom towns.