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ESRM 350 - Wildlife Biology and Conservation
In this course, offered each autumn and aimed at undergraduates who have just declared a wildlife concentration, students are introduced to the history, core concepts (e.g., habitat use, population growth) and conservation and management applications of wildlife science. Concepts and links to conservation/management are illustrated with case studies drawn largely from the northwestern USA. The course features a combination of lectures and discussion sections in which students present course-related case studies to their peers. |
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ESRM 450 - Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
In this course, offered each winter and aimed at upper-level undergraduates, students build on what they learned in ESRM 350 by exploring a range of advanced concepts in wildlife ecology including resource utilization and selection, density-dependent habitat use, specialization and animal personality, foraging under the threat of predation and state-dependent risk taking, population cycles, metapopulation dynamics, and responses to climate change. The course features a combination of lectures and discussion of the primary wildlife ecology literature. |
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ESRM 455 / SEFS 554 - Wildlife Seminar
On a rotational basis, I organize the winter Wildlife Seminar, a series of lectures covering a wide range of topics in wildlife ecology and conservation that offers the opportunity for a natural world credit to UW undergraduates across campus. The course is also open to graduate students. |
Strawberry hermit crabs on Tetiaroa, French Polynesia
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ESRM 459 - Wildlife Conservation in Northwest Ecosystems*
In this field course, which takes place during the spring quarter, students travel to Yellowstone National Park, USA during spring break for eight days of hands-on wildlife research training and exposure to multiple perspectives regarding natural resource management in the northern Rockies. For the remainder of the quarter, students complete and present group research projects based on one of three long-term studies on which the course has focused: patterns of elk anti-predator vigilance, gray wolf foraging ecology, and the relationship between wolf hunting activity, environmental variables, and raven abundance. Recently, the University of Washington produced a story profiling the student experience in this class. *Co-taught with professors John Marzluff and Monika Moskal |
ESRM 459 students observe how Yellowstone wolf project
technicians process a wolf kill in March 2013 |
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SEFS 590 - Graduate Seminars
Each spring, I lead a small graduate seminar (< 12 students) focused on the uses of animal behavior in conservation, behavioral ecology, or predator-prey interactions. In these seminars, students present papers on and lead discussions of emerging topics or methodologies. Past topics have included incorporating social behavior in animal translocations, considering human disturbance as a risk stimulus, preserving animal cultures, animal personality, state dependent risk taking, and social versus individual learning. |
Animal-borne camera (Exeye LLC) being deployed on a white-tailed deer in eastern WA (photo by Pat Green)
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