As a junior female faculty teaching a statistical course, l have a lot to look forward to 😂

Beyond thrilled to share the new Urban Wildlife Information Network paper out today in PNASNews where we show that gentrification drives patterns of wildlife diversity in cities. #urbanecology #cameratrapping #mammals 🧵1/14
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Back from the Utah State University Ecology Center Seminar Series. Was such a joy to catch up with 👸🏻 Julie K. Young, Ph.D. and officially meet T.J. Clark-Wolf, Kezia Manlove, Dustin Ranglack, & so many others I respect and admire. See ya next time, Logan. ⛰️ 🥾 🦬 ✌️

NEW PAPER: We followed 76 grizzly bears in a human-dominated landscape to explore coexistence. What we found surprised us. Tons of mortality, tons of conflict, and yet also tons of bears—3x denser than Banff National Park. How could this be possible? 🧵

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I wrote a story for Science Magazine on researchers studying whether guard dogs can protect people and farmsteads from grizzly bears. Thanks to Julie K. Young, Ph.D. for speaking with me about her study!

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In a surprise move Iran releases conservationists who studied big cats

#anyhope4nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

Hierarchical Modeling workshop this summer July 22-26 at Michigan State University see here for details:
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with Ken Kellner, Marc Kery and also Josh Twining

I get weekly lols from my mom (who is v. smart but has no formal education beyond 15 yrs old) being continually puzzled by academia and the professor life. For one, she wonders why I can't pick up the phone 100% of the time when she wants to talk about her new metal yard animals

Masters Assistantship Opportunity!

The Metcalf and Sells Labs are seeking applicants for an exciting, co-advised project on the human dimensions of grizzly bear recovery! umt.edu/coop-unit/sell…

Dr. Alex Metcalf USGSCoopUnits 🐾 🎣 W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation University of Montana IBA/ bearbiology

Time for my 4x annual email clean. Number of unread? 1521. 😭

One thing I didn’t expect about being a new PI is the joy that comes from building a great team. How lucky am I to have these people on board? They are going to do all the good things.
📷: Marie Martin

The SPEC Lab Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute has been *stoked* to have brand-new Asst Research Prof Matt Smith in South TX over these past five weeks.

Matt was hired because he does it all - pop modeling! Genetics! Stable isotopes! IBMs! Sky’s the limit for ocelot research with Matt on board. 🐆

Today the South Texas Lion Project at Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute Texas A&M-Kingsville 🐗💙💛 welcomed Robert Alonso as its on-the-ground trapping lead! We are so very fortunate to have someone with his depth and breadth of experience.

Learn more about Robert here:
thespeclab.weebly.com/people.html

🥁Graduate opportunity🥁

I am recruiting 2 graduate students in applied quantitative ecology (1 PhD, 1 MSc) to evaluate large mammal monitoring tools in Montana
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=9…
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.University of Montana
.W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation
.Montana FWP
📢Repost is much appreciated!

The SPEC Lab had a great showing at Ocelot Conservation Day, held at the Gladys Porter Zoo in the U.S. border town of Brownsville, TX. I got to don part of the ocelot mascot costume for a short while 🤣 🐆

Great trip to Houston for #TCTWS 2024! Too many pictures to get into one post but here are some Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute shenanigans with lab members from Lisanne Petracca, Ashley Tanner, Bart Ballard, and my labs! We are lucky to work with so many amazing students!

In Houston for the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society annual mtg. My first conference with a full lab! There are lots of cowboy hats. 🤠

📯📯COME JOIN MY LAB📯📯
I am recruiting a PhD student to lead research on understanding how warming climates and parasites affect moose movement and population ecology in Utah (Based at QCNR at USU in collaboration with UtahDWR). Please share with others if you can!