PhD candidate UBCO, Southern BC Cougar Project 🐱 deer wrangler🦌 & bird bander🦉Spatial ecology & conservation. Tweets mine. She/her
KELOWNA, BC
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After being duped by mama cougar C8 on Monday when she moved to a new den just hours before we arrived, we successfully tagged her litter of 3 female kittens yesterday. Meet Pumpkin, Spice, and Latté! They are the 3rd documented litter of C8 on #SBCcougars #WiRElab
Anyone have advice for job search post-PhD? I've been working in a TA for BC gov since January as a Carnivore Bio while wrapping up my PhD this summer. Hiring freezes are limiting my chances to stay on, what are options while trying to land a permanent, relevant role?
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Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
🚨 Seeking a PhD student for urban mesocarnivore research. Details for applying are at my website: drjuliekyoung.weebly.com/
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
We are meeting with a lot of county agriculture commissioners right now as we prepare to launch a new study (in January) on reducing livestock🐂🐑🐐🦙depredation by cougars🐱 in California. I hope we can get lots of #LivestockOwners to participate. Please spread the word!
ALT One-page description of the research project and research team. Please email [email protected] if you would like a word doc version for specifics!
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
🦁We're seeking a Research Technician for our South Texas Lion Project! Work duties include maintaining camera traps, investigating kill sites, and participating in lion work-ups. A phenomenal opportunity in the STX brush country. See below for more: shorturl.at/aftKp 🦁
Thank you to @HCTFBC for this award, the cougars and I appreciate it! 😺
Scholarship Spotlight: Siobhan Darlington one of this year's T4W Scholarship Recipients!
Her research uses GPS data from cougars to evaluate their demography, diet, and seasonal habitat use in the southern interior of British Columbia.
More info: hctf.ca/scholarship-program/
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
WILDLIFE NEWS: In the greater LA area, mountain lions and recreationists use the same areas. Researchers found that while mountain lions can’t really move out of the area, they are adjusting their active periods to avoid people.
Read more here: i.mtrbio.com/yybvmhlpvf
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
Wade through enough camera trap pictures of deer in the western USA and you eventually get something like this! #Puma #Cougar #Predation
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
Yesterday's BC Election remains to close to call for several ridings and the overall balance of power, but I decided to do a quick land-vs-people vote animation anyway.
(Cross-posting with one day delay from the other site where the air is cleaner and skies are bluer.)
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
It's rare to see wolverines, so it's no surprise that population info in Alberta is sparse.
But if you're lucky enough to spot them or their sign, you can help! Submit your observation to WolverineWatch.org, a group filling in some of those data gaps.
#TrailcamTuesday
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
📢I am recruiting a PhD student in applied quantitative ecology .@FCFCMontana .@umontana to work on large mammal monitoring. More information: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/…
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
WINTER CARNIVORE FIELD JOBS (4)
❄️ My team at the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station is hiring 1 crew leader & 3 crew members to conduct winter mesocarnivore surveys. We are using snowmobile surveys & cameras to detect many cute critters! ❄️
Crew lead:
jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/…
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
Ph.D. project studying bighorn sheep movement. Available immediately. See my website:
grad.biology.ualberta.ca/boy…
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
SCBNA Student Affairs Webinar Series is back!🤩Join us for our first session on Wednesday, Oct 16th, 12-2 PM PST for a writing overview & to hear from NSF/NSERC opportunities!
Register here: tinyurl.com/3d792xrn
Learn about upcoming webinars here: tinyurl.com/36s27y4a
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
Go apply for this awesome position with a badass PI.
🐆 🐆 Ph.D. announcement is here! Come join our fun & talented team. Deadline for full consideration is Sep 29.
Full position posting:
shorturl.at/MJVUY
Please share widely! 🐆 🐆
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
"It's not a lack of habitat or food keeping [mountain lions from recolonizing the eastern United States]. It's the highways."
#roadecology in @mongabay.
news.mongabay.com/short-arti…
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
Attention livestock owners and others interested in reducing conflicts with carnivores: I'm giving a webinar tomorrow on livestock guardian dogs! Hope to see you online. agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/event…
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
***New paper alert***
White-tailed #deer are expanding through the #boreal forest with substantial negative consequences. Why?
A recent paper stressed this is primarily #climate driven, but our re-analysis suggests it's 50/50 habitat/climate.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Siobhan Darlington, M.Sc. RPBio retweeted
A global assessment of large terrestrial carnivore kill rates. doi.org/10.1111/brv.13143
Super excited to share the first published chapter of my PhD - A systematic literature review & synthesis of large carnivore kill rates, i.e. rate at which carnivores kill prey. 1/n
