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2019

– Mike Cove, former PhD student in the Gardner lab, has a new paper from his PhD coming out in Biological Conservation titled: “Towards recovery of an endangered island endemic: distributional and behavioral responses of Key Largo woodrats associated with exotic predator removal”

-Beth was part of two new student led papers:
One from Mitch Parsons, a student in Laura Prugh’s lab:  Parsons, M.A., Lewis, J.C., Gardner, B., Chestnut, T., Ransom, J.I., Werntz, D., and Prugh, L.R.  Habitat selection and spatiotemporal interactions of a reintroduced mesocarnivore. 2019.  Journal of Wildlife Management.

The other is paper by Allison Sussman, a student Elise Zipkin’s lab at MSU: Sussman, A., Gardner, B., Adams, E., Salas, L., Kenow, K., Luukkonen, D., Monfils, M., Mueller, W., Williams, K., Leduc-Lapierre, M., Zipkin, E.F.  A comparative analysis of common methods to identify waterbird hotspots. 2019. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

-The Euring proceedings was published in January 2019 as a joint special feature in MEE and E&E.  Beth served as an editor for this special feature and is happy to finally have it published!

-Sarah Bassing has a new paper out in JWM from her masters work entitled, “Stable pack abundance and distribution in a harvested wolf population”.

2018

-Nathan Hostetter, former PhD student in the Gardner lab, has a new paper from his PhD coming out in Ecosphere entitled “An integrated model decomposing the components of detection probability and abundance in unmarked populations”.

-Check out Olivia Sanderfoot’s Letter to the Editor published in the New York Times this summer: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/opinion/letters/trump-endangered-species.html

-Sarah Bassing was selected as the John Pierce Outsanding Graduate Student Award, Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife
Research Unit (2018)

-Robbie was just awarded a 2018-2019 Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center Fellowship.

-New paper on open spatial capture recapture models will be coming out later this year:  Gardner, B., Sollmann, R., Kumar, N.S.,  Jathanna, D. and Karant, K.U. State-space and movement specification in open population spatial capture-recapture models.  Ecology and Evolution.

-Earlier this year, Olivia received an honorable mention in the 2018 Ford Foundation Fellowship Predoctoral Competition, a nationwide competition administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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