‘We are wildlife conservationists’: Minh Nguyen wants to save endangered animals in Southeast Asia
Nguyen's research is focused on the large-antlered muntjac, a critically endangered barking deer.
Nguyen's research is focused on the large-antlered muntjac, a critically endangered barking deer.
A Colorado State University forestry researcher is being honored with a prestigious award recognizing outstanding achievement in biological research leading to the advancement of forestry.
Science and storytelling are two words rarely used together. However, Karina Branson, a graphic facilitator and illustrator and Warner College of Natural Resources alumna is breaking this barrier. Branson’s video series Drawing Connections to Climate Change garnered her a 2021 Silver Telly award for excellence in video and television across all screens.
An international team of researchers including Jonathan Salerno, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, spent three years investigating human-elephant conflict dynamics between wildlife, people and the environment for a transboundary conservation area in southern Africa.
Researchers will tackle the problem of light pollution and how it affects bird migration.
In fall of 2020, Sara Rathburn, a professor in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University, was awarded a U.S Fulbright Scholar grant to study the relationship between afforestation and bank stability along rivers in Iceland. Rathburn’s research explores the characteristics of roots of these newly-planted trees to determine what afforested species contribute the greatest bank cohesion.
In fall of 2020, Jones was awarded a U.S Scholar Fulbright award to analyze changes in forest management and forest cover in the Colombian Amazon based on the 2016 Colombian peace agreement and how land tenure rights, forest policy, and community management play a role in the deforestation of the region.
After generations of owning and operating a family ranch, Mike and his wife Jan continue to pass along a legacy of land ethic and conservation stewardship by funding scholarships to students in the Warner College of Natural Resources and the College of Agricultural Sciences aimed at bridging the gap between the goals of conservation and those of agricultural production.
After a decade working in the fields of forest, agriculture and disease entomology, Seth Davis, an assistant professor in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, will take his research even further with a $1 million CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.
New research shows that orphaned juvenile elephants have less chance of survival in a herd.