Colorado People

Mevin Hooten Assistant Unit Leader Email: mevin.hooten@colostate.edu Website: http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/~hooten/ Tel: (970) 491 - 1415

Bill Kendall Assistant Unit Leader Email: William.Kendall@Colostate.Edu Tel: (970) 491 - 7066

I joined the Units in 2010, after having spent five years with USFWS Division of Migratory Birds, and then 14 years as a research biometrician with USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.

Dana Winkelman Unit Leader Email: Dana.Winkelman@Colostate.Edu Tel: (970) 491 - 1414

Brian Avila Research Associate Email: brianw.avila@gmail.com

Gabriele Engler Accounting Technician Email: Gabriele.Engler@Colostate.Edu Tel: (970) 491 - 6942

Kyla Jones Student Intern Email: kmjones2@rams.colostate.edu

Wendy Lanier Research Associate Email: Wendy.Lanier@Colostate.Edu

Andre Breton Email: Andre.Breton@Colostate.Edu Tel: (970) 215 - 3833

Since 1993, three years into my Bachelor's Degree in Biology, I've accumulated 18 years of research and teaching experience. My experiences and education integrate a life-time of learning encompassing four continents (North, Central & South America; Europe; Antarctica), many terrestrial and freshwater communities including polar, temperate and tropical ecosystems, three ocean systems (Atlantic, Pacific & Antarctic) and research projects dedicated to the conservation of birds, mammals and fish.

Eric Fetherman Email: Eric.Fetherman@state.co.us Tel: (970) 481 - 3225

I have been with the unit since fall 2006. I completed my M.S. in 2009, investigating susceptibility to and heritability of whirling disease (WD) in WD resistant and susceptible strains of rainbow trout. My Ph.D. focuses on the reintroduction of WD resistant rainbow trout to Colorado's rivers and streams, including examination of management options, such as brown trout removal, to increase the success of the reintroductions. I am also currently employed as an aquatic research scientist with the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife.

Gregory Fraser Email: gregsfraser@gmail.com

I completed my B.S. in Biology in 2005 at the University of Victoria. Between completing my B.S. and beginning my Masters I worked in aquatic sciences across the U.S. from the Bering Sea to the deserts of the Southwest. During that time I also completed a tour with the Peace Corps working as an Environmental Educator in El Jicaral, Nicaragua. I am currently doing my M.S. with Dr. Dana Winkelman and Dr. Kevin Bestgen on the roundtail chub, flannelmouth sucker and bluehead sucker populations in the White River.

Brian Gerber Email: Brian.Gerber@Colostate.Edu Tel: (413) 658 - 5991

I completed a B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation at the University of Massachusetts and an M.S. in Fish and Wildlife Conservation at Virginia Tech. I am now working with Dr. Bill Kendall at Colorado State University exploring the population dynamics of greater sandhill cranes in the rocky mountain and mid-continent populations in the hope to evaluate structured decision frameworks and monitoring programs for managing sandhill cranes.

Ephraim Hanks Email: ephraimhanks@gmail.com Website: http://www.stat.colostate.edu/~hanks Tel: (970) 881 - 7678

Kristen Pearson Email: Kristen.Pearson@Colostate.Edu

I graduated from Colorado State University with a B.S. in Wildlife Biology in December of 2006. Since then, I have been working for the U.S. Forest Service and the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife conducting field surveys and assisting with research projects involving various species of conservation concern both aquatic and terrestrial. Currently, I am working with Dr. Bill Kendall and Dr. Dana Winkelman on a mark-recapture project with humpback chub in the Little Colorado River, Arizona.

Claudia Penaloza Email: claudiapenaloza@gmail.com Tel: (352) 264 - 3517

I joined the unit in January 2011 after completing my Ph.D. at Duke University in September 2010. I have mostly worked with sea turtle and freshwater turtle conservation and population biology, and I branched-out toward sustainable harvest and participatory conservation for my Ph.D. Nonetheless, throughout my career mark-recapture data analysis has been a central theme, first with green turtles (Chelonia mydas) for my undergraduate thesis, then amazon side-necked turtles (Podocnemis spp.) for my Ph.D. dissertation, and now Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) for Postdoctoral research. My work in the Unit, in partnership with the USGS Sirenia Project in Gainesville, FL, involves improving the estimation of demographic parameters for the Florida manatee through the development of novel mark-recapture models and joint analysis of multiple sources of data.

Guillaume Peron Email: peron_guillaume@yahoo.fr

I joined the Unit in April 2012. I mostly specialize in capture-recapture analyses (gulls, gamebirds, ungulates), sometimes cutting-edge, sometimes not. I would like to be more involved in fieldwork in the future. For this project we will apply capture-recapture methodologies to the estimation of the number of bird and bat fatalities at wind-power plants. These estimates are central to the decision process of permitting agencies, especially when it comes to quantifying compensation measures.

Adam Schwindt Email: ar.schwindt@gmail.com Website: http://www.ecotoxgroup.com Tel: (541) 619 - 6349

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Perry Williams Email: perry.williams@colostate.edu

I joined the Coop Unit as a PhD student in Fall 2011. I am working on developing a decision tool for managing wildlife on the north slope of Alaska, primarily molting geese near Teshekpuk Lake Special Area. Prior to joining the unit I was a wildlife biologist at Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge. In the past, I have worked with passerines, spotted owls, and crawfish frogs.

Kirstie Yeager Email: kirstie.yeager@colostate.edu

After completing my BA at the University of Hawai’i, I worked with a variety of different species including fish, seabirds and several terrestrial and marine mammals. Most recently, I have returned to Fort Collins to work with the COOP Unit and the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife on the detectability component of a multi-faceted cougar study on the Front Range.