Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology
Montana State University, Montana
Research Director, Craighead Environmental Research Institute
I'm a conservation biologist living in Bozeman Montana. I received my
Bachelor's degree from Carleton College in Northfield Minnesota in 1969.
After a few years in the Peace Corps in the South Pacific and various jobs
in Wyoming, I completed a Master's degree from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison under Dr. Joseph Hickey 1n 1977. My thesis topic was "A
census of Pribilof Island Seabirds". I worked for the next ten years on
various projects, primarily in Alaska, with a number of State and Federal
agencies and consulting firms. I returned to academia and completed my PhD
at Montana State University under Drs. Ernie Vyse and Peter Brussard in
1994. My dissertation topic was "Conservation Genetics of Grizzly Bears"
and was based on results of DNA microsatellite analysis of a grizzly
population in the Western Brooks Range of Alaska that was conducted in
cooperation with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. I conducted my
laboratory work in Dr. Vyse's lab at Montana State, the National Fish and
Wildlife Forensics lab in Ashland Oregon, and Dr. Curtis Strobeck's lab in
Edmonton Alberta.
In the Academic sector I am currently an Affiliate Assistant Professor
Of Biology at Montana State University helping to advise graduate students,
and occasionally teaching. In the Nonprofit sector I work on reserve
design and habitat analysis as well as carnivore biology through my
position as Research Director of the Craighead Environmental Research
Institute. I recently established a GIS lab in Bozeman, Montana. After
helping develop initial models of corridor analysis, I am working to
develop more refined habitat models with greater spatial resolution.
Implementing reserve design concepts also involves working with other GIS
labs, conservation groups, private landowners, and state and federal
agencies throughout the region. I serve as Vice-President for the Northern
Rockies Conservation Coop in Jackson, Wyoming. I am a member of The
Wildlife Society, AAS, and Sigma Xi.
I've published numerous scientific papers and recently completed two
book chapters: one in 1995 entitled Brown/Grizzly Bear Metapopulations for the
book "Metapopulations and Wildlife Conservation" edited by Dale McCullough
for Island Press, the second in 1999 entitled Genetic Considerations for
Conservation of Greater Yellowstone Carnivores for the book "Carnivores in
Ecosystems" edited by Tim Clark, Peter Kareiva, and Steven Minta for Yale
University Press.
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