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Federal Staff

Paul Angermeier

Paul Angermeier Assistant Unit Leader Website: http://fishwild.vt.edu/faculty/angermeier.htm

Mark Ford, Unit Leader, Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Mark Ford Unit Leader Website: http://www.fishwild.vt.edu/faculty/ford/index.htm Tel: (540) 231 - 5927

I have been unit leader since August 2010. Prior to coming to USGS and Virginia Tech, I held R&D positions with the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center, the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station and Westvaco Forest Resources.

University Staff

Terri Waid

Terri Waid Administrative Assistant Tel: (540) 231 - 4934

Students and Post Docs

Amicola holiday darter

Greg Anderson

Variegate darter (Etheostoma variatum)n Levisa Fork, Virginia

Jane Argentina

Catching and radio-tagging bats

Laci Coleman

The Kanawha darter (Etheostoma kanawhae) is a rare freshwater fish species found only in the New River drainage. Here a brightly colored male searches for a female during spawning season in Helton Creek, North Carolina.

Corey Dunn

Nicolas Lapointe

Rachel Mair

Map of composite risk maps for 12 major threats in 473 subwatersheds within the UTRB. None, low, moderately low, moderately low, moderate, moderately high, and high risk rankings were assigned to each subwatershed.

Kim Mattson

Virginia’s Freshwater Recreational Fishing Licenses, including North Carolina residents that fish in VA waters.

Beatriz Mogollon

Rick Odom

Measuring and recording data on endangered freshwater mussels during an annual sampling event in the Clinch River.

Brett Ostby

Electrofishing on the Roanoke River

Jamie Roberts

Hemispherical photo of northern bat (Myotis septentrionalis) roost at Fort Knox, Kentucky

Alex Silvis

Potential high elevation distribution of northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) in the central and southern Appalachians

Sarah Sweeten

Andrew Trent

Amy Villamagna

Claudia Wultsch

 

Current Staff

Federal Staff: 2

Masters Students: 5

Phd Students: 8

Post Docs: 1

University Staff: 1

5 Year Summary

Students graduated: 14

Scientific Publications: 48

Presentations: 76

 

Contact Us

Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Blacksburg, VA 24061 Phone: (540) 231 - 4934 Fax: (540) 231 - 7580

Unit Leader

Mark Ford
Mark Ford, Unit Leader, Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

I have been unit leader since August 2010. Prior to coming to USGS and Virginia Tech, I held R&D positions with the U.S. Army Engineer Research Development Center, the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station and Westvaco Forest Resources.

Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Cooperators

  1. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  2. U.S. Geological Survey
  3. Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
  4. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  5. Wildlife Management Institute