He is also a research professor at the National Institute of Fundamental Studies
He is also a research professor at the National Institute of Fundamental Studies
It’s not easy to be low on the food chain. But white-bearded wildebeests face a threat even greater than lions and leopards. Habitat loss and fragmentation are causing an alarming collapse in their numbers, says Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientist Jared Stabach. In March, he traveled to Kenya to join University of Glasgow and Kenya Wildlife Service colleagues track how these fantastic ‘beests’ are faring when food is scarce.
The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute is helping Professor Grant Hopcraft
Twenty undergraduate students from George Mason University joined the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Global Health Program in the field from July 31 to Aug. 13, 2018.
The students, along with research associate professor Michael von Fricken, traveled
Dr. James Hassell’s research combines ecology and epidemiology to study the connections between environmental change, wildlife and human health. As Skorton Scholar to the Global Health Program, he leads and advances the program’s work in Kenya, which looks to combine capacity building with cutting-edge research to mitigate risk at the interface between wildlife, livestock and human health. Through his work with GHP, Dr. Hassell aims to promote the conservation of species and their ecosystems, while protecting human and wildlife health.
Hassell is an appointed assistant professor adjunct of epidemiology at Yale School
Rosana N. Moraes is a senior research fellow at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Center for Species Survival. She joined SCBI in 2017, and her research focuses on applying biologging technology to better understand the internal responses of wildlife to human influence and environmental changes. Moraes is currently studying two endangered species, the scimitar-horned oryx and the maned wolf. Her focus is to generate validated protocols and integrated databases, including heart rate, behavior and hormone levels, to leverage wildlife welfare and conservation.
with her graduate students at the Federal University of Parana, where she is a professor
Epidemiologists test blood-sucking arthropods, such as ticks and mosquitoes, for pathogens to predict and prevent the spread of diseases.
year an undergrad class of George Mason University students travels with their professor
How big does a “weeble-wobble” have to be to withstand the strength of six female Asian elephants? Over the fall 2016 semester, students at MICA, the Maryland Institute College of Art, sought to answer that question. Collaborating with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s animal care team, they designed and built an enrichment toy that would help the elephants use their natural behaviors in a new and different way.
Jenna Frye, professor in MICA’s Foundation Department, credits the student team’s
Janine Brown is a research physiologist and heads the endocrinology laboratory at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute. Brown is devoted to increasing knowledge that will lead to better management and conservation of endangered species, both in captivity and in the wild, and coordinates one of the world’s largest and most productive endocrinology laboratories that benefits wildlife species.
She returns annually as a visiting professor and has co-mentored more than a dozen
Over Labor Day weekend, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released excellent news about its Red List of Threatened Species.
I was accompanied by two past graduate students, Li Sheng, assistant professor at
Smithsonian graduate fellow Johnny Stutzman shares how mentors can mold a scientific career in our latest Focus on the Future.
It was through her that I met Joe Holbrook, an assistant professor of carnivore and
