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Caleb, the current @oregonstate Bird Nerds president talking to conference goers at the #WillametteValleyBirdSymposium.
If you're interested in a future in ornithology, Oregon State has an extensive program. You can read more about all that we offer at fw.oregonstate.edu/flock 🦉🦅🦆
We have robust teaching collections housed in our department. Today a small percentage of our bird specimens are on display. Our fish, mammal, and bird collections are used in our academic courses and at outreach events like the #WillametteValleyBirdSymposium.
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Barred owl dissection at Willamette Valley Bird Symposium
Ryan Baumbusch's talk is on barred owl stomach contents and how those diet discoveries can inform conservation efforts of spotted owls. Turns out barred owls really like to eat salamanders.
We will be live streaming a barred owl dissection shortly on our page.
Acoustic recordings are a useful data method that we use in many of our research projects in our department. They allow collection of large amounts of data with minimal disturbances to wildlife.
Jill Tengeres is working on a project in Alaska using passive acoustic recordings for monitoring occupancy and abundance of Aleutian Tern colonies.
According to Tyler Dungannon, his approach to his talk today is "winging it".
He is the first of six talks from our department today!
Chintimini Wildlife Center live bird demonstration!
We are live streaming the symposium today so if you can't be here in person you can join us on Zoom!
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We'll be taking photos and live streaming some
of today's demonstrations!
It's Friday afternoon so take a little scroll through the depths of our oceans. Is there anything on this list that surprised you?
Scroll down the deep sea in this interactive page.
"After nearly two decades of research and monitoring efforts, the Grouper Moon team has just published some of our key results in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science."
Scott Heppell has been heavily involved with this project, and the recovery results are an exciting and motivating beacon for conservation. Thank you for all of your hard work, Grouper Moon.
We are thrilled to share an exciting update from the Grouper Moon Project. After nearly two decades of research and monitoring efforts, the Grouper Moon team has just published some of our key results in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
For the paper, researchers used tagging and video survey data to estimate changes in the number of aggregating Nassau Grouper. In both Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, Nassau Grouper aggregations have more than tripled in response to adaptive management by the Cayman Islands government. On Little Cayman, the aggregating population grew from around 1,200 fish in 2009 to over 7,000 in 2018. This study is the first to show sustained recovery of Nassau Grouper populations following fisheries-induced collapse.
REEF initiated the Grouper Moon Project in 2001 in collaboration with the Cayman Islands Department of Environment, and it has become one of our flagship programs. We work in partnership with scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Oregon State University. The project is the Caribbean’s oldest continuous grouper spawning aggregation research program, and represents one of the most advanced, multi-faceted tropical fisheries research programs in the world.
The journal, and the academic community, have dubbed the program a rare conservation success story for the critically endangered Nassau Grouper.
You can read the full scientific study here: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/01/01/1917132117
Aggregation photo by Josh Stewart, (c)Grouper Moon Project.
Join us today as Selina Heppell gives the first seminar of our Winter Term Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Seminar Series.
Her talk, The Future for Sea Turtles on a Warming Planet, will be in Withycombe 109 at 4PM.
You can also view it online with Zoom https://beav.es/ZB4.
Scott Heppell helps to save an endangered species in the Cayman Islands 👍
When writing about a species that reproduces in a massive annual gathering, in which thousands of frenzied, 20-pound fish jostle in the swift ocean current, clouding the water with sperm and eggs, it is tempting to use sex to catch your reader’s attention.
"The important result was that it's not all about salmon abundance," said Johnny Armstrong, a professor and ecologist at Oregon State University, noting the diversity of fish and where they spawn also plays a key role.
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A new stud says while small streams are home to only about 20 per cent of the salmon in the Wood River basin watershed, they account for half of the salmon brown bears eat.
Congratulations to Scott Heppell for winning the R.M. Wade Award for Excellence in Teaching, presented by the College of Agricultural Sciences - Oregon State University The award will be presented at the Faculty and Staff Awards Luncheon at the end of February.
Congratulations to Liz Kelly for winning the F.E. Price/Agricultural Research Foundation Award for Excellence in Student Advising and Counceling, presented by the College of Agricultural Sciences - Oregon State University. The award will be presented at the Faculty and Staff Awards Luncheon at the end of February.
Congratulations to Ivan Arismendi for winning the Savery Outstanding Young Faculty Award, presented by the College of Agricultural Sciences - Oregon State University. The award will be presented at the Faculty and Staff Awards Luncheon at the end of February.
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Dr. Daniel Palacios was recently interviewed by Dr. Chris Parsons for the Marine Mammal Science Podcast. Listen to the episode here, "Tracking Whales via Satellite Tags."
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Selina Heppell discusses her research, describes her department's strategy for the future, and reflects on better ways to attract, train, inspire, and support the next generation of wildlife professionals. College of Agricultural Sciences - Oregon State University
Nov 6, 2019 - Great conversation with Selina Heppell, the Chair of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University. Selina discusses her research, describes her department's strategy for the future, and reflects on better ways to attract, train, inspire, and support the next gene...
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Extension's wildlife specialist Dana Sanchez in the OSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife shows how songbirds are studied at Snag Boat Bend in Linn County.
Beginning December 9th our department will be collecting donations for the Food Pantry at HSRC (Human Services Resource Center) that assists food insecure students, staff and community members. The HSRC staff were elated to hear of our interest! They’re located in the Champinefu Lodge, 1030 SW Madison Ave; more information about eligibility and the program at studentlife.oregonstate.edu.
Partnering with Linn-Benton Food Share, the food pantry offers 3-4 shopping style events per month, plus emergency food boxes as necessary. Clients select from fresh, frozen & canned goods, sometimes with fun surprises like hiking supplies or spices.
Our plan: the shelves have been pretty bare this season, so cash donations will be very much appreciated, and of course any fresh produce (?) or non-perishable store-bought food items will be welcome. Emily has a box for food items at the front desk, and will also accept cash or check donations. Please write checks to the OSU Foundation, with designation to the HSRC food pantry.
We’d like to deliver our gifts by the end of the quarter – so get your gifts in soon.
Our department has a tradition of great generosity – let’s see what we can do this year!
If you have any questions, please direct them to Judy Li ([email protected])
It's standing room only at the last EECB seminar of the fall term. You can tune in online through Zoom at beav.es/ZB4!
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DEAD WEEK!! Come check out the skulls and skeletons of Oregon's gnarliest creatures!
Our Natural History Collection has thousands of specimens, and Oregon State University students like Russell and Dustin Campbell will tell you all about them!
TONIGHT! Cordley 1109, 6-10pm. Free & open to public.
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Our undergraduate Ecampus program has won the Online Learning Consortium’s prestigious John R. Bourne Outstanding Online Program Award.
Thank you to the OLC and to our students, faculty, instructors, and advisors that help make this program as wonderful and as successful as it is.
It's been an amazing ten years of our distance learning program. We can't wait to see what the next ten will bring!
Oregon State University's fisheries and wildlife sciences online bachelor’s program won the Online Learning Consortium’s Outstanding Online Program Award.
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Using drones deployed in the air and GoPros underwater, Oregon State University marine ecologist Leigh Torres recently completed her fourth field season documenting previously unseen behaviors of gray whales off the Oregon coast.
The research from Torres this past field season was funded with proceeds from the sale of an Oregon license plate featuring gray whales. The Marine Mammal Institute receives proceeds from the sale of the Oregon gray whale license plates and uses the funds for marine mammal research, education, and conservation.
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Is Nash Hall on campus or in the middle of a forest? It honestly could go either way. What's the weather like where you are? 🍂🌳🌲☁️
Who wants a mule deer on their license plate!
Proceeds from the sale of this license plate are dedicated to projects that provide safe passage to wildlife of all kinds throughout Oregon.
Help OWF sell 3,000 Watch for Wildlife vouchers so that this plate can go into production. Plate funds will benefit wildlife connectivity projects statewide.
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The fishing industry is facing a new environmental challenge—whale entanglements in crabbing gear. Before 2014, such entanglements were rare, numbering about 10 annually off the entire West Coast. Since then, entanglements have become more common, peaking at 55 in 2015 and numbering 46 off the West Coast last year according to NOAA.
The commercial crabbing industry via the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission is helping fund aerial surveys of whales off the Oregon coast. This project is a partnership between ODFW Conservation, Oregon Sea Grant and OSU's Marine Mammal Institute, relying on U.S. Coast Guard collaboration, to gather information about where and when whales are in Oregon waters and their activities when they are here. In combination with our knowledge of where and when fishing occurs, these resulting whale maps will help us assess the seasons and areas of greatest risk of interactions that lead to whale entanglement.
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New in the Encyclopedia of Puget Sound --> A 2019 OSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife report examines how community members value shorelines in #PugetSound and the impacts of shoreline armoring on people's sense of place: https://www.eopugetsound.org/articles/shoreline-armoring-and-sense-of-place
Halloween wouldn't be complete without a FW front office costume theme! Can you guess what everyone is?
Evan Bredeweg of the Garcia Lab is the second of two Fisheries and Wildlife postdocs chosen for the Conway Science Fellowship. It is funded through the generous support of Karen Swett Conway, National Park Foundation Board of Directors, and her husband Brian Conway and is an opportunity for postdoc fellows to conduct innovative science research that can help inform management actions of the National Park Service.
Evan's study, in Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain national parks, will use several types of data to learn how high visitor use affects habitat connectivity and fragmentation. Parks will then be able to use this information to strike a science-based balance between recreation and a healthy natural area.
The faculty mentor who will be working on this project with Evan is Dr. Ashley D'Antonio from Oregon State's Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society.
You can read more about Dr. Bredeweg's project at the Conway Science Fellowship site linked below.
Landscape scale habitat fragmentation, visitor use and associated infrastructure. Even low-impact recreational activities like hiking, walking, and trail-running can disturb natural areas when there’s a high number of participants, which is common in many of our national parks. The same roads, tra...
Christina Aiello of the Epps Lab is one of two Fisheries and Wildlife postdocs chosen for the Conway Science Fellowship. It is funded through the generous support of Karen Swett Conway, National Park Foundation Board of Directors, and her husband Brian Conway and is an opportunity for postdoc fellows to conduct innovative science research that can help inform management actions of the National Park Service.
Christina's study will assess how desert bighorn sheep herds connect and identify potential sites for possible intervention to ensure metapopulation resilience, and it will demonstrate how collaboration among federal and state agencies is necessary to successfully manage conservation at a landscape scale.
You can read more about Dr. Aiello's project at the Conway Science Fellowship site linked below.
Enhancing collaborative conservation of an increasingly fragmented metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep. In California, a huge metapopulation of desert bighorn sheep (DBS) historically comprises many small herds that naturally move through the arid mountains and desert lowlands. They frequently co...
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Congratulations Christopher Cousins, an undergraduate in the OSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, College of Agricultural Sciences - Oregon State University, one of the winners of the Cafe Bustelo scholarship from HACU - Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
We have a soft spot for lampreys too, it's not just you 😍
Every species plays a critical role in its ecosystem. Cuteness is important too.
MMI and FW assistant professor Leigh Torres and PhD student Dawn Barlow have just set sail on a 4-day STEM cruise to teach high school students about conducting marine mammal research at sea. This is the third year that Dr. Torres has participated in this extraordinary educational experience for Oregon students.
For more information, see https://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/feature/students-learn-conduct-research-aboard-osu-ship?fbclid=IwAR2byCeM3uoN-LFgNnCqJ9XJx_TiOldKxrf0bmRW7St1rq279derQ1QmwNY
We’ve only been out a sea for a couple of hours and our teacher and student participants have already been trained by the chief scientists on how to conduct marine mammal surveys and sediment box cores. They then put their new knowledge immediately to work running hydraulics, deploring and retrieving the corer and processing the samples.
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Barred owl dissection at Willamette Valley Bird Symposium
Chintimini Wildlife Center live bird demonstration!
For the 2019 FW Club BBQ the students had a Pie Your Prof fundraiser. Brian Sidlauskas won the honor of first pie to the face, while Scott Heppell came in second! 🥧🥧
For the 2019 FW Club BBQ the students had a Pie Your Prof fundraiser. Brian Sidlauskas won the honor of first pie to the face, while Scott Heppell came in second! 🥧🥧
Members of the Garcia Lab recently published in Frontiers, sharing a story about how water levels experienced by tadpoles and soil moisture experienced by terrestrial juveniles impact movement behavior. Alan Dennis from Oregon State University Extension Service created a supplemental animation that illustrates the methods used in this study, and the visual storytelling is amazing!
We're excited about #RAFWE
Be like Ann and take a break to go catch a giant snowflake or two ❄️
Winter weather is back to normal here in Corvallis
It was standing room only at our EECB seminar today. Thank you to The Honorable Jane Lubchenco for coming out!
What's the best way to differentiate between seven species of fishes that are known as pike? Why a poetry slam of course! We were front and off-center for the second annual Systematics of Fishes Dichotomous Key Poetry Slam, and it was everything we'd dreamed of and more. Want to see the three performed pieces and find out who the winner was? Head on over to our stories!
We are VERY excited about this! #Repost The Fisheries and Wildlife Club ・・・ Our 2019 calendars are here!! OSU Printing & Mailing knows how to make our day over at the OSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife office! Already sold two copies and have several other copies already reserved. Be sure to use the link in our previous post to reserve your own copies before we sell out! This limited edition calendar is a compilation of more than 40 nature photos taken by 15 students in the Fisheries and Wildlife program at OSU. This nature themed calendar shows exactly what it means to explore #outthere as an OSU FW Student! #fisheriesandwildlife #fwclub #osufwclub #oregonstateuniversity College of Agricultural Sciences - Oregon State University #naturephotography #naturecalendar
It's #NationalCatDay and this jaguar in Brazil is making himself presentable for the occasion. This video came from trap cameras in Brazil, set up by Maanav Kamath of the Levi Lab.
The Fisheries and Wildlife Department at OSU offers courses at the HMSC all Fall term as a part of their undergraduate major and the new Marine Conservation Minor! The FW 426/526 Coastal Ecology and Resource Management students visit Newport for a 4-day intensive to meet with professionals and local community stakeholders to gain new perspective, experiences and insight in preparation of term projects and their future careers. Thanks to the Marine Discovery Tours, they were able to catch a glimpse of these Harbor Porpoises too!
Who's ready to BBQ? 🔥 🔥 See you at 5pm!
Thank you for being such a good sport, Bruce! We raised over $2,600 this year for the food drive!
Pie Day 2018 - Bruce Dugger was a great sport! Katie did an excellent job of delivering the pie AND we raised over $2,600 for the Food Drive this year. That is ~ $800 more than last year! Woo!
We got a visit from Benny at the fish lab the other day. Thanks, Carl Schreck, for the cool video!
Gotta work on that winter bod! Doni Schwalm caught a red squirrel raiding some caramel corn while visiting a gift shop in at Lake Louise in Banff National Park.
Our Department Head, Selina Heppell, is amazing and took a pie for charity! We donated almost $2,000 to the Linn Benton Food Share this year - all because you wanted to see her get pied!
Nassau’s at 96 feet Dr. Scott Heppell is on site at the Grouper Moon project (www.reef.org/groupermoonproject), diving on the west and of Little Cayman island in the central Caribbean. Video from today’s dive shows thousands of fish gathered together for their annual spawning event, which will probably happen tonight. Want to know the only place in the entire Caribbean where you can see thousands of endangered Nassau Grouper gathered to spawn? Yep, only on Little Cayman. This project, led by the Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF), in cooperation with the Cayman Islands Department of Environment, has led to substantial changes in Caymanian fisheries conservation law and the long term viability of this species. Read all about it at the link above and on REEF’s page at https://www.facebook.com/REEF.org/.
Ever wonder what Faculty speed dating looks like? Check out our meet and greet during the first morning of our annual Faculty Meeting.
New students rock!
Totally, Back story: Camera set by 1st year MS student Maanav Kamath in the Taiama Ecological Preserve in the Pantanal region of Brazil. Jaguars in this region are highly aquatic, consuming large quantities of fish, caiman, and turtles. These jaguars are thought to be the largest-bodied and to live at the highest densities of any jaguar population on earth. Maanav previously worked with tigers in India with the Center for Wildlife Studies before coming to OSU where he now works with Dr. Taal Levi
University Day Award Winners ~ 10 26 2013
David Narver was inducted into the department registry of distinguished graduates at the 75th Anniversary Celebration.
Jim Martin, Distinguished Graduate of the Department talks about what the critical issues were in his day and how they were resolved.
Andy Landforce was the first Extension Specialist in the Department. He was also the running back for the only No. 1 (Rose Bowl) football team that OSU ever had. He was also student body President.
Andy Landforce was the first Extension Specialist in the Department. He was also the running back for the only No. 1 (Rose Bowl) football team that OSU ever had. He was also student body President.
Andy Landforce was the first Extension Specialist in the Department. He was also the running back for the only No. 1 (Rose Bowl) football team that OSU ever had. He was also student body President.
Talks about his career at the Department's 75th Anniversary Celebration.
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