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USGS Cooperative Research Units

Unit Name (Location)

Aquatic

Terrestrial

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. 

 

 

McGowen - conservation and management decision support science; endangered species and birds (especially shorebirds); population and ecological modeling

Georgia (University of Georgia)

Jennings - Fish ecology; Conservation biology

Conroy - Ecology and Wildife Management; Population Dynamics; Biostatistics

 

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

 

Maryland (University of Maryland - Eastern Shore)*

 

 

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

North Carolina (North Carolina State University)

Hightower - Anadromous fish ecology; Hydroacoustics; Population dynamics

Collazo - Demographic Processes and Conservation; Species-habitat relationships; Endangered Species Conservation

 

Kwak - Fish ecology and management; Conservation ecology; Production biology; Rare, imperiled, and invasive aquatic species

 

Simons - Avian ecology; Wildlife biology; Conservation biology

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

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

 

 

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

 

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

West Virginia (West Virginia University)

Mazik - Fish physiology and toxicology

Wood - Wildlife Ecology

 

Welsh - Fisheries management