🚨🚨NEW POSTDOC POSITION ALERT 🚨🚨 We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to study the impacts of changing water levels, habitat, and food resources on Great Salt Lake waterbirds. Please share this post with folks who would be interested! 🦆🪿🦢

So proud of the SPEC Lab team, led by Tori, working up its fourth bobcat of the season. Tori is studying bobcat kitten survival and den site selection for her MS at Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, as well as rodenticide exposure in mesocarnivores.

What a year with an A+ team 🐆📷😼💯 Some musings here: thespeclab.weebly.com/news/january-1…

I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into small mammals and population ecology then check this out. Please share/repost widely!

I am stoked about our capture of P04 yesterday, an 80-lb, ~3yo female mountain lion captured and GPS-collared as part of the SPEC Lab Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute South Texas Lion Project. We are investigating lion movement ecology, density, and genetics in the TX-Mexico borderlands.

🚨PhD Alert🚨 The Cherry Lab at Texas A&M-Kingsville is seeking a PhD student to study mammal ecology in South Texas! 🔍 Camera traps, GPS collars, & long-term data 🌿 Applied research with conservation impact 📅 Apply by April 1 📷 Details below ⬇️ #WildlifeEcology #PhDposition

The SPEC Lab SPEC Lab is out in full force at #TCTWS Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute 🐆 🐾

Are you going to #ICCB2025 in Brisbane? Come take the Geospatial Analysis in R all-day workshop on Saturday, June 14. This workshop was developed by me and Amanda Cheeseman in the COVID era, and now has some brand-new updates from SPEC Lab! Join us! 🗺️🤓🦘

We are hiring an Assistant/Associate Prof of Quantitative Ecology! I'm on the Search Committee for this one. If you have any interest in the position & want to learn more about living in this v. cool part of the country, pls reach out! tinyurl.com/2h6bdece

🐆🐆 TWO M.S. POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN MY LAB!! Focus will be bobcat and coyote dynamics in an ocelot pre-reintroduction landscape. Come join the fun. Deadline is June 1 for an August start 🐆🐆 Position posting is here: tinyurl.com/5y3uhbf3

Not a bad way to start the day

🐺🐺🐺 NEW PAPER! 🐺🐺🐺 Recovering wolves in WA tolerate threats except high harvest, high lethal removals, and lack of immigration With Sarah Converse, Beth Gardner, & Ben Maletzke …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ac…

Congratulations to Tori Locke, SPEC Lab MS student, who successfully collared her first bobcat kitten as part of her research into reproduction of bobcats and ocelots. This work will help inform population modeling for both felid species in South Texas. 🐆🤠

We at SPEC Lab successfully made it to #ICCB2025 in Brisbane, Australia 🇦🇺 & taught our Geospatial Analysis in R Workshop. Next up: four oral presentations and three posters! 🤓

Tyler Bostwick is the first graduate student from SPEC Lab to defend her thesis!!! 🧬🐆 She did AWESOME!!! Yay!!! 🎉🍾🎊👯

Oh my, SPEC Lab just had its first graduate student fly the coop. 🥺 Congrats Tyler!

🚨 Seeking a PhD student for urban mesocarnivore research. Details for applying are at my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com

Oh what a night! Our team SPEC Lab successfully collared another bobcat kitten as part of Tori Locke’s ongoing research into bobcat and ocelot reproduction