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Caroline has nearly a decade of experience in government relations and public affairs, working to ensure research on America’s fish and wildlife is effectively communicated to a diversity of audiences and decisionmakers.

Illustration by Elizabeth "Lizzy" Lang, Graduate Research Assistant, Iowa State University.

Hadley Boehm is a graduate research assistant in the Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Missouri in Columbia. She's leading striped bass fisheries research in Bull Shoals Reservoir with the Missouri Department of Conservation.

Tufted puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) are an iconic species in the Pacific Northwest that provide a wide range of ecological, economic, and historically important services such as ecotourism for local communities- and bringing marine derived nutrients to terrestrial habitats.

Illustration (paper and mechanical pen) by Valerie Hinojoza-Rood, Post doc, Oregon State University. Mule deer and yearling migrating through eastern Oregon shrublands.

Adult tufted puffin feeds fish to a juvenile puffin. Illustration by Carina Kusaka. Permission agreement on file. 

Seals swim along the Oregon Coast. Modeling animal movement through landscapes is a key component to understanding population

ecology, how populations can be managed, how human actions impact the population.

Tufted puffins are an iconic species in the Pacific Northwest that provide a wide range of ecological, economic, and historically important services such as ecotourism for local communities- and bringing marine derived nutrients to terrestrial habitats.

Tufted puffin flying over the Oregon Coast. The Tufted Puffin – a seabird of the North Pacific Rim – has evinced steep declines off the west coast of the continental United States in recent years, but it is less clear that the species is declining in the northern portion of its range.

The ringtail is a small, secretive, omnivorous, nocturnal relative of the raccoon that occurs in southwestern Oregon, the most northern portion of the species range.

This original photograph was taken during field work for her project looking at ringtail demographics and habitat use in southwestern Oregon.

Illustration by Morgan Stum, master’s student, Penn State University.

The barn owl is a secretive species that is seldom observed during daylight hours away from its roosts and is one of the least vocal owls. They are difficult to detect at night except when they have large young in the nest.

Morgan Stum is a master’s student at Penn State University, Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Morgan is leading research on stream fish communities in the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West Virginia and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Composite image/poster of several North American darter photographs captured via electrofishing for Morgan’s master’s project. North American darters are a widely threatened subfamily of freshwater fishes, with little known about their larval ecology.

The Topeka Shiner is federally endangered and has experienced drastic reductions in its distribution. In Missouri, the Topeka Shiner has undergone a drastic reduction in distributional range over the last half century, leaving few remaining known populations.

Lizzy Lang, graduate research assistant, Iowa State University, leads research on Blanding’s Turtle. Lizzy’s project helps decision-makers in Iowa and Illinois to make informed decisions about the endangered Blanding’s turtle.

Brielle K Thompson is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Brielle is a Master's student in the Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management program at the University of Washington. She is co-advised by Dr. Sarah Converse and Dr. Julian Olden.

Airboat docked at a slough near the Columbia River. Researchers gaze at the swarms of gulls, terns, pelicans, and swallows on our way to a sampling site.

University of Idaho Doris Duke Scholars at the USFWS National Conservation Training Center. From left to right, standing: Orion Cardenas-Ritzert, Abigain Cano Perez, Dr. Kerri Vierling (faculty co-advisor), Zander Zuniga; in front, Emily Cook. Photograph by co-advisor Courtney Conway.

Dr. Sells received her BS from Oregon State University and MS and PhD from the University of Montana. She was a postdoctoral research scientist before joining the Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit in 2022. Dr.