Sentences with phrase «of wildlife surveys»

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Entrepreneurs and investors are betting on a future full of flying robots that can be programmed to do anything from survey crops or wildlife to delivering vaccines to remote villages in Africa.

If you are interested in wildlife and research, you can participate in one of Mass Audubon's ongoing wildlife studies, such as Horseshoe Crab Population surveys, vernal pool monitoring, snake surveys, and others.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently secured state funding for a year - long biological survey of plant and wildlife on the island which is being conducted by the state Department of Environmental Conservation starting in January 2015.

The survey investigated landowners» experiences with the habitat program and what they thought the effects of management were for their land and its wildlife.

From design to implementation, rewilding projects create jobs for a host of specialties — soil assessment, land system mapping, wildlife surveys and management, fire management — and for people in the construction and landscaping fields.

To find out whether pesticides are taken up by amphibians even in relatively pristine areas, a team led by wildlife biologist Donald Sparling of the U.S. Geological Survey in Laurel, Maryland, tested Pacific treefrogs in several national parks.

A team including researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research has developed a novel methodology that, for the first time, combines 3 - D and advanced range estimator technologies to provide highly detailed data on the range and movements of terrestrial, aquatic, and avian wildlife species.

Although carbon capture and storage has attracted a growing number of advocates, including environmental groups like the Natural Resources Defense Council, it has also attracted its fair share of detractors, such as Greenpeace, and skeptics including the U.S. Geological Survey's Yousif Kharaka (pdf), who has shown that leaking CO2 can make surrounding water acidic, mix with brine and leach metals, and pose potential health risks to people and wildlife.

Even more dangerous is lead shot in gut piles left behind by hunters and consumed by scavengers, including endangered condors, said Barnett Rattner, a wildlife toxicologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and a co-author of the review.

It is surprising that members of Tanzania Wildlife Conservation Monitoring, a joint project of different governmental wildlife protection authorities and the Frankfurt Zoological Society, which has been carrying out aerial surveys in Tanzania's protected areas since 1986, were apparently not consulted.

The results of a survey of wildlife in the region for similar viruses have not yet been released.

Hon. Jemma Nunu Kumba, Minister, Ministry of Wildlife Conservation and Tourism stated: «These surveys are important for our country as they show the world that South Sudan is still home for many iconic wildlife species.

A study conducted by the University of Kent's Dr Amy Hinsley and Dr David Roberts, and published by Conservation Biology, represents the first large - scale global survey of wildlife trade via a social - media site, using the orchid trade as a case study.

DEEP - sea oil rigs are havens for wildlife, according to a survey of porpoises visiting a rig in the North Sea.

«Doing a master's degree is a common way to get a taste of an area and see if it's for you,» says Ben Phalan, a postdoc at the University of Cambridge, who spent months on end in Ghana, surveying wildlife for his PhD in conservation biology.

There's something like 80 million people in the U.S. according the recent surveys that are interested in birds in one way or another, you know, feed birds or watch birds, take their kids to a wildlife refuge and yet we keep hearing about more and more reports of declines in birds, you know, doubling of the extinction rates in birds globally in the last 50 years and right now we are on the verge of what I call the third renaissance of bird conservation, first being the Audubon movement at the turn of the century, the second being the Rachel Carson movement of the»60s and third we are on the verge of it right now.

Examining how land - use changes may affect water quality and fisheries resources in lakes and rivers will help natural resource agencies manage wildlife populations, according to Steven Chipps, leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at South Dakota State University.

Dr. Paul Elkan, WCS Sudano - Sahel Region Director, who led the aerial survey team, said: «The global community must mobilize to secure the spectacular natural ecosystems of Northern CAR and its remaining critical wildlife populations.

During the two - week survey of Penang Hill — a rolling, mountainous landscape thick with tropical hardwood trees — the international team created species lists that will contribute valuable data for mapping the region's distribution of wildlife.

To further uncover the world of indoor wildlife the scientists now plan on surveying dwellings on all seven continents.

With two research icebreakers, over 100 geologists and geographers from Canada and the United States, three Inuit mammal spotters on the watch for vulnerable wildlife, and two underwater autonomous vehicles that can operate beneath sheet ice, a geological survey team set out last night to crush their way through the last untrammelled regions of the Arctic, mapping the sea floor as they go.

A recent wildlife survey led by SERNANP (Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado) and WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) in the Historic Sanctuary of Machu Picchu in Peru has confirmed that the world - famous site is also home to a biologically important and iconic species: the Andean bear (Tremarctos ornatus).

The scientists, including several retired former officials from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game, the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, said in a letter to Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington that drilling for oil and gas in the refuge would be «incompatible with the purposes for which the refuge was established,» protecting fish and wildlife populations and the environments in which they live.

«You've got bears that are spending increasing amounts of time on land becoming nutritionally stressed, moving into areas of human settlements,» says Todd Atwood, a wildlife biologist at the US Geological Survey.

After more than a year of data collection, analysis and mapping, the University of Georgia River Basin Center and the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute recently published a comprehensive survey of Southeastern watersheds and the diverse aquatic wildlife that live in these freshwater ecosystems.

«We started this because state and federal agencies, such as the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, and the U.S. Geological Survey, were interested in the effects of habitat change on nongame species of wildlife,» she says.

(I blurbed her book: «With humour and accuracy, Helen Pilcher surveys the wondrous array of wildlife de-extinction and preservation projects that employ current breakthroughs in genomic technology.»)

It undertakes practical conservation projects, surveys and scientific studies, conducts annual monitoring of seabird populations, rescues wildlife in trouble, publishes guides and information on many aspects of the Falkland Islands environment, and involves islanders of all ages in its activities, including running a WATCH group for children.

She is an experienced marine wildlife observer who has participated in both scientific and seismic surveys throughout the Southern Ocean (Antarctica), South Atlantic (South Orkney Islands), and the south and west coast of Australia for a variety of non-profit and corporative groups including the International Whaling Commission, Fundación Malpelo, and the offshore industry.

In their survey on wildlife losses, published in Science last year, Rudolfo Dirzo, a biologist at Stanford, and colleagues, reported that terrestrial vertebrates are showing a «25 per cent average decline in abundance» and that «invertebrate patterns are equally dire: 67 per cent of monitored populations show 45 per cent mean abundance decline.

The RSPB's (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) Big Schools» Birdwatch is rolling out in schools up and down the country, encouraging children to become part of the world's biggest wildlife survey.

As an entity that does care about the issue, Louisa McCune Elmore, executive director of the Kirkpatrick Foundation, explained the mission behind a larger statewide assessment that is being conducted by the foundation: «The SpayFirst survey is part of a multifaceted baseline study by Kirkpatrick Foundation to assess the status and condition of animals in Oklahoma's geographic boundaries, from wildlife and pets to livestock.

In chapters 3 through 6, we'll survey some of the more systematic wrongs inflicted on animals — factory farming, animal fighting, and the abuse of pets and wildlife — and we'll see how some of these evils are being confronted and overcome through the power of democracy and the rule of law.

On national monitoring surveys of rabies, wildlife that commonly harbor the virus include bats, raccoons, foxes, and skunks.

An agency primer on the species points out that coyotes were reported in just 18 of Florida's 67 counties in a 1981 wildlife survey.

Similarly, a nationwide survey of TNR advocates found that 59 percent believe feral cats fill a natural role as predators (23 percent were «unsure») and 79 percent believe feral cats should be treated as protected wildlife.

In a recently published survey in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association of rabies cases in the United States, the occurrence of rabies declined in all wildlife and domestic dogs, but in cats, rabies increased.

You'll undertake surveys and other research as part of ongoing conservation efforts, and experience a huge selection of marine wildlife while giving something back to this amazing country.

In 1994, the International Tropical Conservation Foundation (ITCF) conducted a terrestrial wildlife survey of the Bacalar region and determined that Jaguar (Pantera onca) and Puma (Puma concolor) both threatened species, continued to be in existence within the region.

You'll investigate changes in the climate and what they mean for these species while trying your hand at a variety of research techniques, including bird surveys, lizard surveys, frog surveys, and nocturnal wildlife spotting.

The last extensive survey of possible rhino range in the last known range state, Cameroon in 2006, failed to find any rhino or signs of rhino (dung, spoor or signs of feeding) but did find evidence of widespread wildlife poaching and local rhino monitors faking rhino spoor in the absence of any surviving rhino.

Three - year survey of wildlife off Long Island coast will help New York State responsibly develop offshore wind projects

«I have never seen wildlife like that, in such numbers, not even when flying over the mass migrations of the Serengeti,» said survey leader and renowned conservationist J. Michael Fay in 2007.

The use of small autonomous flying vehicles — model airplanes to hobbyists — is revolutionizing the field of conservation, enabling researchers to track wildlife, monitor for poachers, and survey inaccessible...

'» The park is working with researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and other institutions to survey wildlife during the next year and compare the diversity they find to that recorded by surveys taken between 1908 and 1945.

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced today that it has completed the first two phases of the world's largest digital aerial survey of offshore wildlife in a 16,000 - square - mile area off the Long Island coast.

NYSERDA's aerial wildlife survey is being conducted in coordination with visual surveys planned by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Atlantic Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Navy, BOEM and others, which will ensure maximum synergy in data collection and provide corroboration of species identification, distribution and behavior.

Supported the ongoing monitoring of wildlife studies, surveys, and activities to ensure program quality, effectiveness, technical adequacy.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS * Field Operations Management - continental scale ecology * Practical field experience researching, compiling and managing collected data * Professional wildlife surveys, investigations and observations * Biological compliance monitoring - Responsible for field surveying (pre / post construction bio-sweeps of T&E flora and fauna), contractor coordination, active construction monitoring and technical.OF QUALIFICATIONS * Field Operations Management - continental scale ecology * Practical field experience researching, compiling and managing collected data * Professional wildlife surveys, investigations and observations * Biological compliance monitoring - Responsible for field surveying (pre / post construction bio-sweeps of T&E flora and fauna), contractor coordination, active construction monitoring and technical.of T&E flora and fauna), contractor coordination, active construction monitoring and technical...

Expert at budget and proposal preparation, hiring and training field survey crews, coordinating with clients, designing wildlife studies to meet the needs of clients and resource agencies, study implementation, and report preparation including Bird an...