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Sarah J Converse, PhD

Unit Leader - Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

​​​​​​​RECENT HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Conference Best Paper Award, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011
  • Department of Interior STAR Award, for work with Outer Continental Shelf energy development team, 2011
  • Department of Interior STAR Award, for work with Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership, 2009
  • Department of Interior STAR Award, for work with Washington Fish and Wildlife Office, 2009
  • Department of Interior STAR Award, for work with Northeast Region Fisheries Program, 2008

CURRENT TRAINING ACTIVITIES

  • Instructor: Training for Effective Conservation Translocation (with IUCN Reintroduction Specialist Group), workshop venues
  • Instructor: Integrated Population Modeling (with Drs. Marc Kery and Michael Schaub), workshop venues 
  • Instructor: Introduction to Structured Decision Making, National Conservation Training Center

ASSOCIATED POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

  • Dr. Nathan Hostetter, Improved Design and Analysis of Polar Bear Population Studies (2016-Present) 
  • Dr. Jonathan Cummings, Landscape Level Population Modeling as a Decision Support Tool for the Lesser Prairie-Chicken  (2014-Present, w/Dr. Dave Smith, USGS Leetown Science Center)
  • Dr. Sabrina Servanty, Population Viability of the Eastern Migratory Population of Whooping Cranes (2009-2013, w/Dr. Larissa Bailey, Colorado State University)

ASSOCIATED STUDENTS

  • Dr. Stefano Canessa, Decision Theory for Reintroductions   (2011-2015, w/Drs. Mick McCarthy and Kirsten Parris, University of Melbourne)
  • Ms. Megan Brown, Causes of Poor Fertility in Captive Whooping Crane, PhD Candidate   (2013-Present, w/Drs. Nucharin Songsasen and Carol Keefer, University of Maryland)
  • Ms. Megan Brown, Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Poor Reproduction in the Whooping Crane, M.S.   (2011-2013, w/Drs. Nucharin Songsasen and Carol Keefer, University of Maryland)