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About the Staff
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Dr. Craig R.
Allen
Unit Leader
Craig Allen received his Ph.D. in Wildlife Ecology and
Conservation from the University of Florida in 1997, a MS in
Wildlife Science in 1993, from Texas Tech University and a B.S.
in Biology from the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay in 1989.
He held a post-doc position in Zoology at the University of
Florida working with C.S. Holling on investigations of the
relationships between diversity and resilience, and variability
and scale breaks in biological and other systems. Earlier in
life, he was raised mostly in Madison, Wisconsin, but was born
in Berkeley, California and has also lived in South Hampton and
Oxford, England, and Katwijk Aan Zee, the Netherlands.
Dr. Allen was the Unit Leader for the South Carolina Cooperative
Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and an Associate Professor in
the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources and the
Department of Biological Sciences at Clemson University.
He became leader of the Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in 2004. |
Craig Allen hard at work on the
Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.
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Dr. Kevin L. Pope
Assistant
Unit Leader
Kevin Pope received his Ph.D. from South Dakota State University in 1996, his M.S. from Auburn University in 1993, and his B.S. in Fisheries Science from Texas
A&M University in 1991. Kevin
grew up in Denver, Colorado, but was born in Abilene, Texas.
Before joining the Nebraska Coop Unit in 2005, Kevin was an
Associate Professor of Fishery Science at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. |
Kevin Pope
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Dr. Joseph Fontaine
Assistant
Unit Leader
http://fontaine.joseph.googlepages.com
TJ received his Ph.D. (2006) and B.S. (1997) in Wildlife and Fisheries from the University of Montana. Before joining the Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in early 2009, he held a joint post-doc position at the USGS Sonoran Desert Research Station and the School of Natural Resources at the University of Arizona studying the evolution and maintenance of avian migration behaviors in human altered landscapes.
Broadly, TJ is interested in wildlife conservation and evolutionary ecology, but his passion is understanding variation in life history strategies, both within and among species. His dissertation research concentrated on the influence of juvenile mortality on the expression of reproductive strategies, but recently he has been examining how vegetative phenology, food availability, competition, and predation risk interact with individual condition to influence stopover site selection and subsequent behaviors in migratory birds.
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TJ Fontaine conducting field work in Tanzania
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Valerie Egger
Administrative Assistant
Valerie Egger has been a
member the University of Nebraska-Lincoln community for nearly twenty years. Before joining the Coop Unit in 2004, her university experience included the University Bookstore, the Center for Biotechnology, Nebraska Network 21, and the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication. In 2001, she received her B.S. in Business
Administration. She completed the Grantsmanship Center
Training Program in 2002.
A Nebraska native, she grew up in Lincoln but
for over thirty years has lived in rural Nebraska on a small
farm.
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Valerie Egger
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Tony Barada
Angler Survey Project Coordinator
Tony provides supervision for the Angler Survey Project.
Tony received his B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife (2004) and his M.S. in Natural Resources (2009) from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Prior to joining the Nebraska Coop Unit, Tony's professional experience included working as a fisheries biologist for the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and as a fisheries project leader for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Tony is a native Nebraskan who grew up in Lyons, Nebraska.
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Tony Barada
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Caryl Cashmere
Staff Assistant
Caryl provides half-time assistance with a broad range of business activities to help with the daily work flow of the Unit.
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Karie Decker
Project Coordinator
Karie is the project coordinator for the Nebraska Invasive Species Project. She works with agencies and Nebraska state senators to establish a state-wide Nebraska Invasive Species Council and will also engage in outreach programs promoting awareness of invasive species issues. |
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Nebraska Cooperative Fish
and Wildlife Research Unit–USGS
422 Hardin Hall
3310 Holdrege Street
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-0984
Phone 402-472-0449
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