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Come work with us! We’re seeking a Research Ecologist (Assistant Unit Leader)! Closes 1/04/2023 Details to apply in the link: usajobs.gov/job/692182900 USGSCoopUnits 🐾 🎣

Hard work. Dedication. Perseverance. You did it! Congratulations on your graduation! Please help us congratulate Dillon Fogarty! Dillon graduates from NECFWRU with a Doctor of Philosophy in Agronomy and Horticulture, specialization in Applied Ecology . #Congratulations!

Congratulations on your outstanding achievement! Wishing you all the best for the future and all its opportunities. Please join us in congratulating Brandon Barlow! Brandon graduates from NECFWRU with a Master of Science Degree in Natural Resource Sciences. #graduation

Wishing you a wonderful holiday season! ❄️🎄🎁 #HappyHolidays2022

We hope you all had a wonderful break! We are back in the office and excited to get to work on some amazing projects! #BackToWork

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Meet our amazing wild turkey field technicians! For the next several months, they will work with the students on the project to capture wild turkeys, fit them with GPS transmitters, take genetic samples, and track the turkeys’ movements. Thank you, techs! We appreciate you 👏

Shout out to Kayli Newkirk for providing this awesome photo for Mike Chamberlain’s Turkey Tuesday post! Kayli is a Crew Leader for the Nebraska Wild Turkey Project. Thanks to our amazing partner Nebraska Game and Parks who is funding this research and providing technical support!

We are #hiring Creel Clerks - Nebraska Angler Survey Project at Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Message me if you're interested in joining our team. We are attending 83rd Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference if you would like to meet! - via #Whova event app

And we're off! The Nebraska wild turkey project has hit the ground running. So far, our team has deployed GPS transmitters on 51 birds (on our way to 120 total). Stay tuned for more updates! 📷: Nebraskaland/Nebraska Game and Parks

The January-February issue Nebraskaland features the bat work of former #NE_NRT student Christopher Fill: magazine.outdoornebraska.gov/2023/01/listen… #NSFNRT Nebraska SNR

Have you ever wondered how we catch #turkeys for research tagging and sampling? There are several ways, including drop nets, rocket nets and walk-in traps! For our project with Nebraska Game and Parks, Nebraska Coop F&W RU, and UGA, we used walk-in traps. Here’s how we did it:

✨Meet our team!✨ We are excited to welcome a few new members to the AWESM lab this year! Meet Surya Deepika Garugu, a new PhD student! Learn more about Deepika here: instagram.com/awesmlab/

Excited to have Surya Deepika Garugu, new Ph.D. student, working on the wild turkey research project. This project is funded by Nebraska Game and Parks and led by faculty from Nebraska SNR, Nebraska Coop F&W RU, and UGA's Warnell School. The National Wild Turkey Federation Mike Chamberlain Wild Turkey Report wlfwildlife Bret Collier

Thank you to Nebraska Game and Parks Commission for funding this research! Our research team is led by scientists from Nebraska SNR, Nebraska Coop F&W RU, and UGA's Warnell School! Check out the interview below on our wild turkey project! youtu.be/ODUjwoiSQPU

The first year of turkey trapping is in the books! With captures complete, our crew is now focused on tracking movements, gathering data on nesting habits and poult health, and recording acoustic data. All capture and handling of wild turkeys was approved by IACUC protocol 2260.

Did you know you can actually “see” turkey gobbles? This picture visualizes sound waves created by a gobbling turkey - the gobbles are green spikes outlined by a thin box. The shorter green spikes above the boxes are another bird calling at a higher frequency. 📷Patrick Wightman

Through a new study, UNL researchers seek to understand wild turkey populations across Nebraska, including survival and harvest rates and resource selection. Listen to Hunt Nebraska talk about it here: fal.cn/3yd5k 📷: Justin Haag, NGPC

Powell named director of UNL’s School of Natural Resources from Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources ianrnews.unl.edu/powell-named-d… Congratulations!!!!