Images

Katlyn Steinkerchner (undergraduate research technician for PA Coop Unit) is banding a Henslow’s sparrow.

Michael Jones, Ph.D. candidate in the Massachusetts unit, tracking the movements of wood turtles in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.

Lincoln Parrett, of the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, restrains a female caribou as her calf looks on.

Iowa Unit Graduate student Chris Penne listens for signals from carp with surgically implanted radio transmitters in Clear Lake. Chris studied carp aggregation to assist in planning for carp reduction by the DNR.

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit - Nathan Gosch (right; master's student) utilizes a gastroscope to verify that all stomach contents were recovered from a flathead catfish held by Jeff Stittle (undergraduate).

Research on sika and white-tailed deer on Assateague Island National Seashore is investigating movements and habitat partitioning between these two ungulate species. Photo is of Sonja Christensen (M.S. student in Wildlife and Fisheries Science at Penn State University) with a sika deer.

Tennessee Cooperative Fish and Widlife Research Unit students John Damer and Casey Bergthold sampling elusive brook trout in the Watauga River in east Tennessee. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.