Sentences with phrase «wildlife biologist at»

«Here is the largest land mammal of the polar zones, but we hardly know anything about musk oxen,» said Joel Berger, a wildlife biologist at Colorado State University and a senior scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

They are very adaptable creatures,» said Paul Collins, wildlife biologist at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

Darrell Whitworth, a wildlife biologist at the Davis - based California Institute of Environmental Studies, has spent the last few weeks working at night to track and monitor the secretive bird.

One bride - to - be chose to honor her recently passed father, a former park wildlife biologist at Glacier National Park, by saying her wedding vows in her local national park.

«The best way to find out if these dogs work is to try them,» said Julie Young, a research wildlife biologist at the National Wildlife Research Center in Logan, Utah.

While learning outdoor survival skills with a wildlife biologist at Raven's Way Nature Sanctuary, my students were given the task of building a shelter that could withstand Arizona's challenges: the flooding, the heat, and the creatures.

Government agencies need to know where to put in place education efforts,» said coauthor Cecily Costello, a research wildlife biologist at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks in Kalispell.

«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.

«They were clearly using the humans as a shield,» says Sam Steyaert, a wildlife biologist at NMBU and the study's lead author.

In one paper, in the 2009 Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference: Tundra to Tropics, Dauphiné and co-author Robert J. Cooper, a wildlife biologist at the University of Georgia in Athens, argue that feral cats kill upwards of 1 billion birds in the United States every year.

So Gabriel and his friend Mark Higley, a wildlife biologist at the Hoopa Tribal Forestry Department, began tagging along on raids, sometimes entering an illegal grow site while dangling, commando - style, from a rope attached to a police helicopter.

«The Department of Wildlife Conservation [DWC] has been transferring elephants for many years,» says Prithiviraj Fernando, a wildlife biologist at the Centre for Conservation and Research in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka, and the lead author of the new study.

After more than a decade of studying snowshoe hares in the Rocky Mountains, L. Scott Mills, a wildlife biologist at the University of Montana, Missoula, noticed that the animals were beginning to stick out more than usual.

«If we can predict when an outbreak is imminent, we can proceed with management actions such as anti-fungal baths that kill Bd,» said Kamoroff, who is now a wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park.

It's clear that eliminating DDT as a common agricultural pesticide has had marked environmental benefits, according to Chandler Robbins, an 89 - year - old wildlife biologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Maryland, who worked directly with Carson in the 1940s.

(DeStefano and Stein shared a stage January 23 for a discussion of urban wildlife at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Mass.) Where the wily things are At the forefront of this research into coyote behavior is Stanley Gehrt, a wildlife biologist at The Ohio State University, who has studied coyote populations in the Chicago area for more than a decade.

Rolf Peterson, a wildlife biologist at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, says that because only the strongest and healthiest moose survived, his team had expected a decline in wolves last year.

From the bluebird painting propped against her office wall and the deer she mentions seeing outside her office window, Linda Lewis might be mistaken for a wildlife biologist at first glance.

That's the question that Miguel Ordeana, a wildlife biologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles who also does field work in Nicaragua, wanted to know.

Not exact matches

«Why don't you do something that helps people,» one wildlife biologist was asked at her church.

Above, wildlife biologist Ron Lichtie checks the age of a buck at a deer registration station in West Salem.

Brian Underwood, a U.S. Geological Survey research wildlife biologist who teachers at SUNY ESF.

The language of the Wilderness Act describes man as a «visitor who does not remain»; Jim and Holly Akenson, wildlife biologists with an exemption, live at the property year - round.

However, wildlife biologists fear a new outbreak could appear at any time.

After an experienced trainer was pulled in and killed by an orca at SeaWorld, a wildlife biologist who studies the species explains how a killer whale's natural behavior might help shed light on what happened

The research «really is novel and addresses an important societal question, especially given the growing interest in developing nuclear energy worldwide,» says Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina in Columbia who studies Chernobyl - area wildlife.

The forum brought together many of the world's top disease ecologists, wildlife biologists, immunologists, virologists, vaccinologists, epidemiologists, wildlife veterinarians and pathologists, and policy experts to explore whether it would be appropriate and feasible to develop approaches to canine distemper vaccination to protect at - risk wild carnivore populations.

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.

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.

«Based on this study, we know that native wildlife can provide you with a pretty significant benefit,» says Daniel Karp, a conservation biologist at Stanford University in California, who led the study.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

When Cristina Miyaki, a biologist at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, heard about the Folgosa case, she knew there had to be a better way to catch and convict wildlife smugglers.

► On Thursday at ScienceInsider, Erik Stokstad reported on the case of 26 - year - old biologist Diego Gómez Hoyos, a Colombian graduate student seeking a master's degree in conservation and wildlife management.

In fact, only a dozen people have been killed by cougars in the US over the past century, maintains wildlife biologist Paul Beier — and it is the cougar that is at risk.

The findings from Otaki's group are «groundbreaking,» says Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, who also studies the effects of radiation on wildlife near Fukushima and Chernobyl.

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.

«Caribou can respond to habitat change in three ways:,» said Kris Hundertmark, co-author and wildlife biologist - geneticist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology.

At that point, I was already on the path of becoming a wildlife biologist / animal behaviorist and figured I would really concentrate on filmmaking once I'd pursued those areas.

As migratory tropical birds often stop at Jekyll Island, University of Georgia wildlife biologist Sonia Hernandez outfitted 31 feral cats on the island with collar - mounted video cameras and recorded their hunting activity for a year.»

Scott Hardin — a biologist, expert on exotic and invasive species and proud owner of a ball python named Ricky (as in Lucy's husband)-- has the kind of insight that comes only with years of experience working at the intersection of science, environmental stewardship and public policy, balancing conservation of fish and wildlife with responsible pet ownership.

Pratt Institute recently welcomed wildlife biologist Dr. Roland Kays, who is research associate professor at North Carolina State University and director of the Biodiversity and Earth Observation Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, to the Brooklyn campus for «Candid Creatures,» a lecture and workshop that gave Pratt students a chance to explore how photography relates to science and wildlife conservation.

Pratt Institute recently welcomed wildlife biologist Dr. Roland Kays, who is research associate professor at North Carolina State University and director of the Biodiversity and Earth Observation Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural...

We are partnering with some very dedicated wildlife biologists who all want to ensure this project continues to be a success,» said Mark Pawlicki, Director of Corporate Affairs and Sustainability at Sierra Pacific Industries.

A Facebook post by the environmental journalist John Platt directed me to an excellent Twitter list of — at last count — 89 conservation biologists, journalists, educators and other people focused on using new communication tools to foster wildlife conservation and animal welfare.

«Unfortunately, it appears that the agency caved to pressure from snake breeders in its decision not to restrict trade in the boa constrictor — a snake that is clearly damaging to U.S. wildlife,» Collette Adkins, an attorney and biologist at the center focusing on the protection of reptiles and amphibians, said in a statement.

Selective quoting is important, as Mr. Wiegand has a constant refrain that the US Fish and Wildlife Service has engaged in a 28 - year long cover - up of wind farm mortality, and believes that the very carefully worked out wildlife mortality counting methodologies employed at wind farms — methodologies developed and vetted by wildlife biologists, avian preservation groups and the wind industry — consistently undercount avian mortality.

However, it was not until the 1997 discovery of antibodies to Infectious Bursal Disease Virus (IBDV) in a high percentage of emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) chicks at Auster Rookery (through research led by Australian Antarctic Division veterinary biologist, Heather Gardner), that disease in Antarctic wildlife was connected with the presence of people in Antarctica.

Biologists say oil has smeared at least 300 to 400 pelicans and hundreds of terns in the largest seabird nesting area along the Louisiana coast — marking a sharp escalation in wildlife harmed by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill...

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