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Arkansas Unit student Aaron Cushing implanting a transmitter in a rainbow trout.

Florida and North Carolina Unit personnel collaborated on a unique study at Yawkey Wildlife Center in South Carolina using aerial photographs collected by the Florida Unit’s unmanned aircraft system (UAS). L-R: Kelsey Oberneufeman (NC Unit), Adam Watts (FL Unit), Scott Bowman (Univ. of FL), Jaime Collazo (NC Unit), Kyuho Lee (Univ.

The Oklahoma Unit has been studying population expansion and genetics of black bear in southeastern Oklahoma since 2001. Live capture and hair snares have been used to collect samples; from left to right: field technician, JD Davis and M.S. candidates, Angie Brown and Meredith Magnuson.

Graduate Student Alina Niklison Measuring a hummingbird — Montana Wildlife AUL Tom Martin's project in Venezuela.

Virginia unit researchers study seasonal movement, dispersal, and home range of invasive Northern Snakehead Channa argus. Scientists also research growth and reproductive behavior in a newly established population of northern snakehead.

Josh Schloesser, a MS student at the Kansas Unit holding a grass carp collected while sampling with the USFWS on the Missouri River. Josh is working closely with the FWS and other agencies to develop sampling protocols for Missouri River fishes.

2007 Research crew for the short-tailed albatross satellite tracking study conducted on Torishima Island, Japan. Front row (left to right): Noboru Nakamura, Hayao Murakami, Paul Sievert, Yuki Watanabe, Fumio Sato. Back row: Miwa Tsuchiya, Robert Suryan.

Matt Reiter, MN Ph.D. student, and Steve, field technician, gathering data near Churchill, MB, Canada for Canada Goose research project.

Janie Kearns, with a mature (caviar-bearing) paddlefish captured by a commercial fisherwoman.

Dr. Mike Redding, Co-Principal Investigator (Tenn Tech) and Phil Bettoli, implanting a sonic tag into the body cavity of an endangered pallid sturgeon on the banks of the Mississippi River. 

Trevor Selch, Ph.D. student at the South Dakota Unit is studying effects of mercury on walleye reproduction.  Dr. Steven Chipps, AUL-Fisheries, pictured at right.

Researchers at the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center and their partners place thermal remote cameras near deer and elk carcasses in Yellowstone National Park to capture images of wolves with mange feeding in the wild.

The USGS studies bighorn sheep movements, population structures, and habitat use in and near Glacier National Park.

Assistant Idaho Unit Leader Christine Moffitt during construction of hydrocyclone filtration system at Hagerman National Fish Hatchery.

Mike Greiner, M.S. student, South Dakota Coop Unit.  Mike is studying limnology of Bureau of Reclamation Reservoirs in North Dakota.

The Massachusetts unit and its cooperators are using box traps to capture and mark beavers for a study of their ecology in and around suburban areas of Massachusetts.

Researchers approach Blackfoot Glacier in Glacier National Park.

An unknown hybrid species of salamander captured in Olympic National Park, Washington.

Snakehead fish are originally from China and Korea, but recently they've been found in Maryland, Virginia, Arkansas, California, and Florida.

Black scorpion (Centruroides sp.) held in a person's hand.

A biological technician of the USGS National Wildlife Health Center tests chicken eggs inoculated with a field sample from wild birds to detect the presence of avian influenza virus.