Bill Severud
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Assistant Professor @SDState | Certified Wildlife Biologist® 🫎🦫🦬🐏🦌🐌
Brookings, SD
Joined January 2018
The next Webinar Wednesday is in exactly 2 weeks! Join us for a presentation about how wildfire and forest harvesting impacts the understory vegetation species that are important to Indigenous communities. Info and registration here: https://t.co/w5IckF7yz6
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If you are looking to apply for an ASM travel award for the @Mammalogists annual meeting the deadline is March 15. Please see the website for more information
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Dogs FTW! 🐕
Detection dogs are sniffing out an invasive insect that has spread throughout 18 U.S. states. Researchers found the dogs were better than humans at detecting spotted lanternfly eggs in forests compared to vineyards. Read more 👇
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🚨PhD Alert🚨 The Cherry Lab at Texas A&M-Kingsville is seeking a PhD student to study mammal ecology in South Texas! 🔍 Camera traps, GPS collars, & long-term data 🌿 Applied research with conservation impact 📅 Apply by April 1 📷 Details below ⬇️ #WildlifeEcology #PhDposition
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The world is scary and bad, things are a mess. But the team and I are hiring a lead tech for Bear hair snare work! They’ll be in charge of constructing and checking hair snares with other techs/volunteers https://t.co/Lyt9LFoL5Q
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🚨 Big news from SDSU! 🚨 Faculty, grad students, and undergrads from South Dakota State University's Natural Resource Management Department just coauthored a paper in Global Ecology and Biogeography! 🌎📸 🔗 Read the study: https://t.co/OaHt8BUZ16
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Jeff Martin, Assistant Professor and SDSU Extension Bison Specialist, is one of the nation’s leading bison experts and is using his expertise to support bison recovery efforts. https://t.co/hOBo2wS963
extension.sdstate.edu
There are approximately 400,000 bison across North America, down from 30 to 60 million prior to the 1860s. South Dakota has the largest bison population in the U.S. with nearly 40,000, and Martin...
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Calling all our Black and/or Indigenous mammalogists! Do any of you 1) identify as a woman and 2) have routine access to live animals (i.e., work at a zoo or an animal sanctuary)? There might be a neat media opportunity for you. Get in touch! 🐾
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Hey #ScienceTwitter if any of y'all are still out there - it would be good to start compiling a list of funders who will still support environmental justice and DEIJ efforts while NIH and NSF are being hampered. Please add resources if possible!
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Karma Choki, an NRM grad student, was interviewed by the University Marketing & Communication last November. Here is a sneak peek at her research about tracking forgotten big cat in her native country, Bhutan. Go Karma! https://t.co/z434jasN1Q
sdstate.edu
Karma Choki, graduate research assistant in South Dakota State University's Department of Natural Resource Management, conducted research in her native country of Bhutan on a forgotten big cat: the...
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Call for applications! 📝 The Leadership Institute is intended to develop and expand leadership skills for early-career professionals through remote learning for six months and in-person sessions at the annual conference. Find out more here👇
wildlife.org
The Wildlife Society is accepting applications for its Leadership Institute class of 2025 through March 14
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Karma Choki, #SDState graduate research assistant in the Department of Natural Resource Management, conducted Bhutan's first ever population estimate on a forgotten big cat: the elusive common leopard. 🔗: https://t.co/q7g6eiofzj
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Proud advisor moment! Check out MS student Michele Lovara's research update on using conservation dogs to detect M. ovi in bighorn sheep 🐑 https://t.co/nA0r2aqYBJ
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Happy to share that our paper on small felids co-occurrence in Bhutan is finally out 👉 https://t.co/q9xKC51Zvf
New study presents a multi-species occupancy model for three small felids in Bhutan: Asiatic golden cat, marbled cat & leopard cat. Occupancy varied by different environmental and anthropogenic factors, highlighting the need for heterogenic landscapes. 👉 https://t.co/3ECnOYb6hC
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Cool footage of 2 bull moose sparring from just 2 weeks ago! And then toward the end of the sequence another small bull decides to join in the fun. All-in-all, some trail camera gold! We’ve only captured this on camera one other time so far. But this footage is much better than
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PhD Position in Movement Ecology of Forest Elephants Kays lab @NCState_FER @NaturalSciences Starting Fall 2025 https://t.co/9YDoZb6nnB
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🚨🚨🦆🪿🦢🚨🚨POSTDOC ALERT - Just reposting this postdoc ad! We will start reviewing apps next week - please share with anyone who would be interested!!!
🚨🚨NEW POSTDOC POSITION ALERT 🚨🚨 We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to study the impacts of changing water levels, habitat, and food resources on Great Salt Lake waterbirds. Please share this post with folks who would be interested! 🦆🪿🦢
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I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into small mammals and population ecology then check this out. Please share/repost widely!
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🪶The 42nd Annual NAFWS National Conference will be held May 12-15th, 2025 in Riverton, Wyoming. Call for Abstracts is now OPEN! ✅ The deadline to apply is Friday, March 7, 2025. 📄Please submit abstracts here: https://t.co/BR4rJX13fh
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