Wildlife, Fish, & Conservation BiologyNEWS & EVENTS: WFCB News
Volunteers Help Ducks in Yolo: An effort in Yolo County aims to help the wood duck population recover. See UCD graduate student Kevin Ringelman who manages the project in video at KCRA channel 3.
Senior environmental biology and management major Denise De Carion is an undergraduate research assistant working in the lab of Professor Peter Moyle had a write up in The California Aggie addressing the Marsh Project. The heading reads, "A day in the life with...." click here to read the article.
Dr. Debbie Elliott-Fisk was nominated by her students and colleagues for an Outstanding Mentor Award from the Consortium for Women and Research. These awards are designed to honor faculty who have engaged in sustained and successful mentoring of women at UCD, and, in their letters of support, those who nominated her described the positive impact she had on their research and teaching in moving detail.
The Consortium Board agrees that Dr. Elliott-Fisks efforts deserve special recognition and is very pleased to offer her one of the three 2008 Outstanding Mentor Awards. Campus reception for Dr. Elliott-Fisk and the other awardees will be on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 21st from 4-6 p.m. in the University Club. Congratulations! U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) scientist Josh Ackerman, a research wildlife biologist stationed at the Davis Field Station of the USGS Western Ecological Research Center, and his coauthors John Eadie and Tom Moore of the University of California, Davis, are recipients of the Harry R. Painton Award for 2007 from the Cooper Ornithological Society for the best publication over the past 4 years in its journal The Condor. Ackerman and his collaborators investigated the risk-taking behavior and life-history characteristics of dabbling ducks by measuring their approach behavior during the waterfowl-hunting season. They found that species characterized by a "slow" life-history strategy (for example, northern pintails and mallards, which are less fecund but longer lived) were more risk averse than species with a "fast" life-history strategy (for example, cinnamon teal and green-winged teal, which are more fecund but shorter lived). Their results indicate that life history influences the risk-taking behavior of dabbling ducks and provides an explanation for the differential vulnerability of waterfowl to harvest. The award announcement appears in The Condor (v. 109, p. 991-994). The citation of the award-winning article is: Ackerman, J.T., Eadie, J.M., and Moore, T.G., 2006, Does life history predict risk-taking behavior of wintering dabbling ducks?: Condor, v. 108, p. 530-546 ALL NEW WILDLIFE, FISH, & CONSERVATION BIOLOGY T-SHIRTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!!!!! Shirts are made of 100% pre-shrunk cotton and come in colors: Sand, Stonewash Green, and Navy Blue. Sizes: S, M, L, XL are $12 each and Size: XXL is $14 each. Original artwork was provided by WFCB student Caitlin Morrow. To purchase one... two... or all three stop by room 1088 in Academic Surge. 
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