Lab News

Our new paper on statewide mountain lion mortality in California is out in PNAS. Congrats to Kyle Dougherty and our whole coauthor group in California and beyond. This one was an amazing collaborative effort!

https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/husker-researchers-contribute-to-innovative-study-of-california-mountain/

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-03-21/people-are-the-greatest-threat-to-mountain-lions

Read the official press release here

October 2022: I joined Gaye Clemson on her podcast “Algonquin Defining Moments” to talk about my PhD work with wolves in and around Algonquin Park in Canada. A fun trip down memory lane as well as a reminder of all the remains to be done in this fascinating system. Click below to listen!

https://algonquinparkheritage.podbean.com

April 2022: Jake Harvey was awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support his MS research in our lab on predator-prey interactions, spatial ecology, and energetics of mountain lions in San Francisco’s North Bay area. Way go Jake – and well deserved!!

10/11/2021: Our new paper was published on spatial ecology of mountain lions in greater Los Angeles led by Seth Riley and with Jeff Sikich of the National Park Service. Check out P22 on the cover of JWM!

12/8/2020: New paper published on resource selection at dens and rendezvous-sites by wolves, coyotes, and hybrids in Ontario led by my colleague and friend Teresa Oliveira! Our paper was the cover article!

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.3320

7/23/20: Congratulations to Erin Wood for successfully defending her MS thesis, “Space use & resource selection of bighorn sheep ewes in a prairie badlands population”