Images

Graduate Student Alina Niklison Measuring a hummingbird — Montana Wildlife AUL Tom Martin's project in Venezuela.

Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife research unit students (L to R) Colleen Olfenbuttel (MS), Johnny Wills (MS), and Sybille Klenzendorf (Ph.D.) weigh and measure a black bear cub at a den site in western Virginia.

Virginia unit researchers study seasonal movement, dispersal, and home range of invasive Northern Snakehead Channa argus. Scientists also research growth and reproductive behavior in a newly established population of northern snakehead.

Research on sika and white-tailed deer on Assateague Island National Seashore is investigating movements and habitat partitioning between these two ungulate species. Photo is of Sonja Christensen (M.S. student in Wildlife and Fisheries Science at Penn State University) with a sika deer.

Tennessee Cooperative Fish and Widlife Research Unit students John Damer and Casey Bergthold sampling elusive brook trout in the Watauga River in east Tennessee. 

Janie Kearns, with a mature (caviar-bearing) paddlefish captured by a commercial fisherwoman.

Dr. Mike Redding, Co-Principal Investigator (Tenn Tech) and Phil Bettoli, implanting a sonic tag into the body cavity of an endangered pallid sturgeon on the banks of the Mississippi River. 

Lincoln Parrett, of the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, restrains a female caribou as her calf looks on.

Arkansas Unit student Aaron Cushing implanting a transmitter in a rainbow trout.

Florida and North Carolina Unit personnel collaborated on a unique study at Yawkey Wildlife Center in South Carolina using aerial photographs collected by the Florida Unit’s unmanned aircraft system (UAS). L-R: Kelsey Oberneufeman (NC Unit), Adam Watts (FL Unit), Scott Bowman (Univ. of FL), Jaime Collazo (NC Unit), Kyuho Lee (Univ.

Iowa Unit Graduate student Chris Penne listens for signals from carp with surgically implanted radio transmitters in Clear Lake. Chris studied carp aggregation to assist in planning for carp reduction by the DNR.

Josh Schloesser, a MS student at the Kansas Unit holding a grass carp collected while sampling with the USFWS on the Missouri River. Josh is working closely with the FWS and other agencies to develop sampling protocols for Missouri River fishes.

Bradley Compton, Research Associate with the Massachusetts CRU, holding a Blanding's turtle, a threatened species in Massachusetts.

The USGS studies bighorn sheep movements, population structures, and habitat use in and near Glacier National Park.

Researchers at the USGS Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center and their partners place thermal remote cameras near deer and elk carcasses in Yellowstone National Park to capture images of wolves with mange feeding in the wild.

Mike Greiner, M.S. student, South Dakota Coop Unit.  Mike is studying limnology of Bureau of Reclamation Reservoirs in North Dakota.

Trevor Selch, Ph.D. student at the South Dakota Unit is studying effects of mercury on walleye reproduction.  Dr. Steven Chipps, AUL-Fisheries, pictured at right.

Assistant Idaho Unit Leader Christine Moffitt during construction of hydrocyclone filtration system at Hagerman National Fish Hatchery.

The Massachusetts unit and its cooperators are using box traps to capture and mark beavers for a study of their ecology in and around suburban areas of Massachusetts.

A biological technician of the USGS National Wildlife Health Center tests chicken eggs inoculated with a field sample from wild birds to detect the presence of avian influenza virus.

This close-up image is of juvenile silver carp in research tanks at the USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center.