Upcoming field positions and information for prospective students, followed by news from the lab.
We read every email. A short, honest introduction is always the best place to start: who you are, what you have done, and what you want to do.
We expect to hire two bird point-count technicians and one autonomous recording unit (ARU) technician for our post-fire bird and mammal project next summer. The positions have not been posted yet. Details and application instructions will appear here.
We will be hiring several small-mammal technicians to work in our experimental vole enclosures. Dates and details will be posted here.
If you are interested in graduate study in the lab, email Josh. Graduate students join through OSU's Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences. A useful first email includes:
Most students in the lab arrive with a degree in biology, ecology, wildlife or a closely related field. We are a quantitative lab, and statistics and R are the steepest part of the climb for most people, so evidence that you are ready to build those skills goes a long way.
If you would like to work with us in another way, whether through a postdoctoral fellowship, undergraduate research at OSU or a collaboration on a monitoring or management problem, email Josh and tell us what you have in mind.
Papers, people and field seasons. Newest first.
Growers and researchers met at the Linn County Expo Center in Albany on 22 October for the second annual Vole Summit: short research talks, then round tables where growers mapped where and when voles have hit their fields. Organised by the Willamette Vole Management group, OSU and the USGS Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, with the Oregon Grass Seed Commissions.
Our new preprint with collaborators in Brazil uses camera-trap surveys and hierarchical models to show how well the forest set aside on working farms holds on to large, threatened vertebrates.
Mackenzie started her PhD on landscape-scale monitoring of the western gray squirrel, supported by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Fish and Wildlife Habitat in Managed Forests Research Program.
A large international collaboration, published in Ecological Monographs, uses high-resolution biologging data from a wide range of species to show how animal movement breaks down into fundamental steps and turns.
Published in Global Ecology and Conservation with colleagues at Cornell: how leopards use a multi-use landscape they share with people.
In Methods in Ecology and Evolution, we use simulation to show when hierarchical co-occurrence models recover true interactions and when they confidently report ones that do not exist.
Published in the Journal of Animal Ecology with colleagues at OSU: how wild cats that share the same forests partition their niches.
Published in the Journal of Applied Ecology: a way for agencies to ask, before the first camera goes out, whether a monitoring programme can detect the changes it exists to detect.
Growers, researchers and agencies met in Salem for the first Vole Summit, now an annual meeting of the Willamette Vole Management group.
