Diane C Mickelson

Diane is a Computer Scientist working with federal, state, and tribal conservation partners to support the DOI Bison Metapopulation Strategy. The DOI Bison Metapopulation Strategy supports a shared stewardship of wild bison with the goal of promoting the ecological and cultural restoration of bison to North America through effectively conserving genetic diversity and ensuring long-term population persistence. Diane also works to support the Chronic Wasting Disease Strain and Genetic Online Tissue Repository. The Chronic Wasting Disease Strain and Genetic Online Tissue Repository is a virtual repository of tissue and reagents for chronic wasting disease (CWD), accessible by researchers worldwide to request samples in furtherance of study objectives. Metadata collected by the repository may be used to better predict the potential spread of CWD, allowing for focused surveillance and mitigation resources, and assist in identification of novel emerging strains. 

Other projects Diane has worked on include SIREN: the National Early Detection and Rapid Response Information System, a central hub for collecting and integrating information on invasive species efforts to facilitate data-sharing, program coordination, and proactive management; the Central Flyway Goose Harvest Database, a collaboration between USGS, State Agencies representing the Central Flyway Council, the Arctic Goose Joint Venture, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to gather goose harvest information from hunters for use in estimating goose harvest and abundance data; and SDARTT (Surface Disturbance and Reclamation Tracking Tool) in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which facilitates the leasing of public lands by tracking disturbance and reclamation data associated with any surface activity requiring a BLM permit.