wildlife community ecology, conservation, and management
University of Washington
Joined July 2013
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The family of colleague and friend @UrbanSchell lost their homes in the fire that destroyed Altameda, erasing hard-won generational wealth overnight. Please consider helping out gofund.me/169e2aef
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A coyote is pulled out of cold food section at Aldi in Humboldt Park in #Chicago
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After an interesting writing process, the review process was a breeze for this paper! Pre-copyediting version available below. Read about the genes we think could be interesting to urban evo people using coyotes as an example @E_Carlen @Wild___Summer . academic.oup.com/gbe/advance…
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Using weather data combined with multi-decadal caribou and wolf demographic data, heterogeneous habitat and topography are shown to mitigate the impact of an extreme precipitation event on wildlife populations in Alaska @LauraPrugh, @uwmtnhydr, @UW_SEFS doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-0…
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Research postdoc position on predators-prey (carnivores-ungulates) relationships.
University of Bern (Conservation Biology).
Please distribute as broadly as you can.
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Assistant professor in urban ecology position just opened up at University of Missouri. Someone come get this job and then come hang out with me and collaborate on urban wildlife ecology, statistics, etc.!
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CALLING ALL BIRD NERDS we are hiring Asst Prof Avian Ecology at UW Seattle! Please apply, or spread the word: ap.washington.edu/ahr/positi…
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Last week to apply to join our lab and lead an exciting new experimental study of coyotes-deer-pigs for your dissertation research jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/…
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We have a great list of ongoing award, fellowship and grant opportunities that we thought our members might be interested in. Check it out here: docs.google.com/document/d/1…
#conservation #funding #fellowships #awards
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CarniTraits - The Traits of the World's Late Quaternary Terrestrial Mammalian Predators out now in @GEB_macro. The dataset features a suite of traits for recently extinct and all extant predators.
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Want snow depth? @CatherineMBreen used GPUs to do the heavy lifting so you can fine-tune her nifty model with CPUs
We just released the model to extract snow depth from snow pole images! 🥳Paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.… . Big big thank you to my fellow coauthors @LauraPrugh, Carrie Vuyovich @space_potato, Ryan Currier @wcurrier, & Zhongqi Miao, as well as @NASAGoddard @cv4ecology
100% agree with @taaltree on this. How can universities make students from both conservative and progressive backgrounds feel welcome? This is a big challenge we need to address and DEI initiatives ignore this aspect of diversity completely
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#WAPredatorPreyProject research in the @SpokesmanReview! Study: Food availability more important than predators for white-tailed deer in northeast Washington (and predators are important too!) spokesman.com/stories/2024/j…
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Fascinating talk by @mkaeberlein on dog aging and what to do about it. If you would like to enroll your dog in @dogagingproject, you can do so at dogagingproject.org #CSC2024
This paper could have been an entire dissertation! Excellent thread by @TRGanz here. One of the most interesting findings to me was that mesopredator suppression by wolves and cougars did not indirectly benefit deer (via less fawn predation) in this human-impacted system.
Happy and proud to share that the last paper from my dissertation, “White-tailed deer population dynamics in a multi-predator landscape shaped by humans,” is published in @ESAApplications 🦌🐺🌲👩🌾
Reach out if you’d like a copy, and follow along for a 🧵
doi.org/10.1002/eap.3003
This paper shines a light on a very thorny issue: outdoor recreation has many benefits, but negative impacts on wildlife can be strong. How can we strike the right balance?
Great work led by @SamanthaKreling showing fine-scale genetic structuring of Seattle's coyotes. Stay tuned to find out what they're eating!
Second Dissertation chapter published! We found that Interstate-5 and the Washington Ship Canal acted as strong barriers to coyote gene flow in Seattle, Washington using STRUCTURE and private alleles. Congrats all!
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Super cool scavenging experiment by @MammalMitchell and @DrJulieKYoung
New paper alert with @DrJulieKYoung ‼️🚨
Does coyote behavior at experimental carcass sites vary based on the presence of cougar scent?
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ALT A trail camera photo of two coyotes standing in a wooded area. They are standing at a cougar feeding site where a cougar had killed and fed on a wild pigs for two nights. The coyotes had been scavenging this kill site.