Project management: I have managed / led 9 multi-disciplinary projects collaborating with numerous and varied partners from private, government, academia and NGOs on wildlife monitoring and management, waterfowl ecology, movement, migration, behavior, habitat and resource availability, disease, management and conservation. 

 collaborations using our movement data to publish research addressing various aspects of movement ecology, migration and habitat use patterns, flight speed, brooding behavior, the impacts of anthropogenic factors such as wetland loss, disturbance, weather (fires, fog, drought)  and predicting transmission and risk of avian diseases between wild and commercial populations (see Publications & Outreach). 

Wildlife monitoring, management, policy: Our team is also currently developing a paradigm shifting model of a system (AIMS for Wildlife) that will integrate animal movement data with environmental and habitat information and make this accessible early and easily to wildlife and habitat managers to improve and contribute to true applied management. We are collaborating directly with multiple governmental, academic and NGO partners to accomplish an effective and useful system with a bottom-up approach to comprehensive and effective wildlife monitoring and management.

Collaboration and engagement: Each research project is designed to directly inform management of wildlife populations and the ecosystems they rely on by detailing waterfowl needs, habitat requisites and restoration, and optimizing conservation and management best practices of these very large populations. To this end I inform, advise and directly engage with stakeholders including habitat and wildlife managers including private landowners, farmers, Joint Ventures, state and federal government agencies, industry, NGOs and academic institutions.  

Wildlife tracking: We have tracked over 2000 individuals of 40+ species over 8 years and have thus far collected ~35 million GPS data points (the worlds largest movement dataset, on the leading edge of electronic tracking research).