USGS Cooperative Research Units
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Aquatic |
Terrestrial |
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Alabama (Auburn University) |
Irwin - Lotic fish ecology and management; adaptive management of natural resources; landscape ecology; conservation of aquatic natural resources |
Grand - Ornithology; Waterfowl Ecology;Population Biology & Management. |
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McGowen - conservation and management decision support science; endangered species and birds (especially shorebirds); population and ecological modeling |
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Georgia (University of Georgia) |
Jennings - Fish ecology; Conservation biology |
Conroy - Ecology and Wildife Management; Population Dynamics; Biostatistics |
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Peterson - Aquatic ecology and stream fish communities; Physical and biotic factors at multiple scales.; Population dynamics; Fish-habitat/landscape relationships; Evaluation of collection and population-estimation techniques |
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Maryland (University of Maryland - Eastern Shore)* |
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New York (Cornell University) |
Fisher - Modeling species-environment relationship; Evaluating environmental flows in rivers; Sampling design and methodology; Application of geotechnology |
Fuller - Landscape ecology; Community ecology; Conservation biology |
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North Carolina (North Carolina State University) |
Hightower - Anadromous fish ecology; Hydroacoustics; Population dynamics |
Collazo - Demographic Processes and Conservation; Species-habitat relationships; Endangered Species Conservation |
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Kwak - Fish ecology and management; Conservation ecology; Production biology; Rare, imperiled, and invasive aquatic species |
Simons - Avian ecology; Wildlife biology; Conservation biology |
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Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania State University) |
Wagner -Fisheries ecology; Multiple spatial-scale assessment of aquatic resources; land-water interactions; hierarchical modeling |
Diefenbach - Wildlife ecology; Estimation of population parameters; Harvest management of game populations |
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Tennessee (Tennessee Tech University) |
Layzer - Stream regulation on aquatic biota; Ecology and conservation of freshwater mussels; Restoring and maintaining aquatic biodiversity; Ecology of stream fishes |
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Bettoli - Evaluating stocking programs using OTC marking and coded wire tagging technology; Catch-and-release mortality; Effects of water level fluctuations on fish recruitment in reservoir ecosystems; Dynamics of exploited fish populations; Management and ecology of imperiled fishes |
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Virginia (Virginia Tech) |
Angermeier - Stream fish communities; assessing quality of aquatic resources; conservation of aquatic systems |
Ford - Wildlife habitat interactions (forest management and prescribed fire); white-tailed deer management; ecology and management of bats; non-volant small mammals and woodland salamanders; high-elevation/relict forest management and restoration in the Appalachians |
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West Virginia (West Virginia University) |
Mazik - Fish physiology and toxicology |
Wood - Wildlife Ecology |
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Welsh - Fisheries management |
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