Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit Staff Member

Michael D Samuel

Assistant Unit Leader
Phone: (608) 263 - 6882
Email: mdsamuel@wisc.edu
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Education

  • MS University of Idaho 1985
  • Ph D University of Idaho 1984
  • MS University of California 1980
  • BA University of California 1973

Biography

Dr. Samuel is a wildlife ecologist working primarily on wildlife disease epidemioligy, disease modeling, and related areas of wildlife ecology.. The epidemiology of wildlife disease involves a complex interplay among the disease agent, the environment, and the ecology of host species. In a broad sense, understanding key components of the dynamics within and interactions among these three components are crucial to an improved understanding of wildlife disease ecology. Dr. Samuel's research program combines a variety of laboratory analyses, field investigations, and epidemiology modeling tools to address a broad range of applied research on the ecology of wildlife disease. Recent and current projects concentrate on increased understanding the complexity of disease ecology affecting wildlife species and the development of effective management strategies. Research topics typically involve questions related to disease transmission, disease reservoirs, host ecology, impacts of disease of wildlife populations, and epidemiological modeling.. My teaching interests are primarily in the areas of wildliife disease ecology and in the use of quantiative methods for teh design and analysis of wildlife research studies.

Research Publications Publication Date
Wilson, H. M., J. S. Hall, P. L. Flint. C. J. Franson, C. R. Ely, J. Schmutz, and M. Samuel. 2013. High seroprevalence of avian influenza among wild waterfowl in Alaska indicates elevated historical exposure rates. PLoS ONE 8(3): e58308. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058308 January 2013
Williams, C. K., M. D. Samuel, V. V. Baranyuk, E. G. Cooch, and D. Kraege. 2008. Winter fidelity and apparent survival of lesser snow goose populations in the Pacific flyway. Journal of Wildlife Management 72:159-167. January 2008
Walsh, D. P., and M. D. SAMUEL. 2012. Factors affecting chronic wasting disease: a deer is not a deer is not a deer. Pages 1-9 in D. P. Walsh, ed. Enhanced surveillance strategies for detecting and monitoring chronic wasting disease in free-ranging cervids: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1036. January 2012
Thompson, A. K., and M. D. Samuel. Alternative bait marker systems for white-tailed deer. Pages 223-231 in Proceedings of the 12th Wildlife Damage Management Conference. D. L. Nolte, W. M. Arjo, and D. H. Stalman, eds. January 2008
Thompson, A. K., M. D. Samuel, and T. R. Van Deelen. 2008. Alternative feeding strategies and potential disease transmission in Wisconsin white-tailed deer. Journl of Wildlife Management72:416-421 February 2008
Sundar, N., I. M. Asmundsson, N. J. Thomas, M. D. Samuel, J. P. Dubey, and B. M. Rosenthal. 2008. Modest genetic differentiation among North American populations of Sarcocystis neurona may reflect expansion in its geographic range. Veterinary Parasitology 152:8-15. January 2008
Storm, D. J., M. D. Samuel, T. R. Van Deelen, K. D. Malcolm, R. E. Rolley, N. A. Frost, D. P. Bates, and B. J. Richards. 2011. Comparison of Visual-based Helicopter and Fixed-wing Forward-looking Infrared Surveys for Counting White-tailed Deer. Wildlife Biology 17:431-440. October 2011
Storm D. J., M. D. Samuel, R. E. Rolley, P. Shelton, N. S. Keuler, B. J. Richards, and T. R. Van Deelen. 2013. Deer density and disease prevalence influence transmission of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer. Ecosphere. January 2013. January 2013
Shorey, R. I., K. T. Scribner, J. Kanefsky, M. D. SAMUEL, and S. V. Libants. 2011. Inter-continental gene flow among Western Arctic populations of lesser snow geese. Condor 113:1-12. October 2011
Samuel, M. D., and B. J. Richards. Chronic wasting disease in free-ranging North American cervids. Pages 324-328 in Proceedings of the 22nd Vertebrate Pest Conference. Published. May 2007
Samuel, M. D., R. G. Botzler, and G. A. Wobeser. 2007. Avian cholera. Pages 239-269 In Infectious Diseases of Wild Birds. N. J. Thomas, B. J. Hunter, and C. T. Atkinson(eds). Blackwell Press. Published. February 2007
Samuel, M. D., P. H. F. Hobbelen, F. DeCastro, J. A. Ahumada, D. A. LaPointe, C. T. Atkinson, B. L. Woodworth, P. J. Hart, and D. C. Duffy. 2011. The dynamics, transmission, and population impacts of avian malaria in native Hawaiian birds – a modeling approach. Ecological Applications 21:2960-2973. December 2011
Samuel, M. D., J. Hall, J. D. Brown, D. R. Goldberg, and V. V. Baranyuk. The Dynamics of Avian Influenza in Western Arctic Snow Geese: Implications for Annual and Migratory Infection Patterns. Ecological Applications doi:10.1890/ES14-00393.1. July 2015
Samuel, M. D., D. J. Shadduck, and D. R. Goldberg. 2005. Avian cholera exposure and carriers in greater white-fronted geese breeding in Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Disease 41(3): 498-502. 2005 July 2005
Samuel, M. D., D. J. Shadduck, and D. R. Goldberg. 2005. Avian cholera exposure and carriers in greater white-fronted geese breeding in Alaska. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 41:498-502. July 2005
Samuel, M. D., D. J. Shadduck, and D. R. Goldberg. 2004. Are wetlands the reservoir for avian chloera? Journal of Wildlife Diseases 40:377-382. December 2004
Samuel, M. D., D. J. Shadduck, D. R. Goldberg, and W. P. Johnson. 2005. The role of lesser snow and Ross's geese as carrieers of avian cholera in the Playa Lakes Region. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 41:48-57. July 2005
Samuel, M. D., D. J. Shadduck, D. R. Goldberg, and W. P. Johnson. 2003. Comparison of methods to detect Pasteurella multocida in carrier waterfowl. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 39:125-135. January 2003
Samuel, M. D., D. J. Shadduck, D. R. Goldberg, M. A. Wilson, D. O. Joly, and M. A. Lehr. 2003. Characterization of Pasteurella multocida isolates from wetland ecosystems during 1996 to 1999. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 39:798-807. December 2003
Ruth, J. M., D. R. Petit, J. R. Sauer, M. D. Samuel, F. A. Johnson, M. D. Fornwall, C. E. Korschgen, and J. P. Bennett. 2003. Science for avian conservation: Priorities for the new millenium. The Auk 120:204-211. January 2003
Rogers, K. G., S. J. Robinson, and M. D. SAMUEL. 2011. Diversity and distribution of white-tailed deer mtDNA lineages in CWD outbreak areas in southern Wisconsin, USA. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health 74:1521-1535. October 2011
Robinson, S. J., M. D. Samuel, R. E. Rolley, P. Shelton. Using landscape epidemiological models to understand the distribution of chronic wasting disease in the Midwestern USA. Landscape Ecology 28:1923-1935. | Abstract October 2013
Robinson, S. J., M. D. SAMUEL, K. I. O’Rourke, and C. J. Johnson. The role of genetics in chronic wasting disease of North American cervids. Prion 6:155-164 . January 2012
Robinson, S. J., M. D. SAMUEL, D. L Lopez, and P. Shelton. The walk is never random: subtle landscape effects shape gene flow in a continuous white-tailed deer population in the Midwestern United States. Molecular Ecology. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05681.x July 2012
Robinson, S. J., M. D. SAMUEL, C. J. Johnson, M. Adams, and D. I. McKenzie. Emerging prion disease drives host selection in a wildlife population. Ecological Applications 22:1050-1059. April 2012
Osnas, E. E., D. M. Heisey, R. E. Rolley, and M. D. Samuel. 2009. Spatial and temporal patterns of an emerging epidemic: fine scale mapping of a wildlife epidemic in Wisconsin. Ecological Applications 19:1311-1322. April 2009
Michael D. Samuel, Bethany L. Woodworth, Carter T. Atkinson, Patrick J. Hart, and Dennis A. LaPointe. submitted. Avian Malaria in Hawaiian Forest Birds: Infection and Population Impacts across Species and Elevations. Ecosphere6:104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00393.1 June 2015
Matsumoto, T., M. D. Samuel, T. Bolinger, M. Pybus, and D. W. Coltman. Association mapping of genetic risk factors for chronic wasting disease in wild deer. Evolutionary Applications. doi:10.1111/eva.12003 July 2012
Magle, S. B., M. D. Samuel, T. R. Van Deelen, S. J. Robinson, and N. E. Mathews. 2013. Evaluating spatial overlap and relatedness of white-tailed deer in a chronic wasting disease management zone. PLoS ONE. 8(2): e56568. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056568 January 2013
Liao, W., M. D. Samuel, O. E. Timm, C. Zhang, C. T. Atkinson, D. A. LaPointe. Will A Warmer and Wetter Future Cause Extinction of Native Hawaiian Forest Birds? Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/gcb.13005 July 2015
Lehr, M. A., R. G. Botzler, M. D. Samuel and D. J. Shadduck. 2005. Associations between water quality, Pasteurella multocida, and avian cholera at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 41:291-297. May 2005
LaPointe, D. A., C. T. Atkinson, and M. D. SAMUEL. Ecology and conservation biology of avian malaria. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1249:211-226. April 2012
Keane, D. P., D. J. Barr, P. N. Bochsler, S. M. Hall, T. Gidlewski, K. O. O'Rourke, T. R. Spraker, and M. D. Samuel. Chronic wasting disease in a Wisconsin white-tailed deer farm. Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 20:698-703 (2008). March 2008
Joly, D. O., M. D. Samuel, J. A. Langenberg, R. E. Rolley, and D. P. Keane. Surveillance to detect chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin white-tailed deer. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 45:989-997. October 2009
Joly, D. O., M. D. Samuel, J. A. Langenberg, J. A. Blanchong, C. A. Batha, R. E. Rolley, D. P. Keane, and C. A. Ribic. Spatial epidemiology of chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin white-tailed deer. Journal of Wildlife Disease 42:578-588. Published. May 2006
Joly, D. O., D. M. Heisey, M. D. Samuel, C. A. Ribic, N. J. Thomas, S. D. Wright, and I. E. Wright. 2009. Estimating cause specific mortality rates using recovered carcasses. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 45: 122-127. January 2009
Joly, D. O., C. A. Ribic, J. A. Langenberg, K. Beheler, C. A. Batha, B. H. Dhuey, R. E. Rolley, G. Bartelt, T. R. Van Deelen, and M. D. Samuel. 2003. Chronic wasting disease in free-ranging Wisconsin white-tailed deer. Emerging Infectious Diseases 9:599-601. May 2003
Johnson, C. J., J. M. Aiken, D. McKenzie, M. D. SAMUEL, and J. A. Pedersen. Highly efficient amplification of chronic wasting disease agent by protein misfolding cyclic amplification wit beads (PMCAb). PLos ONE e35383. January 2012
Jennelle, C. S., V. Henaux, G. Wasserberg, B. Thiagarajan, R. E. Rolley, and M. D. Samuel. Transmission of chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin white-tailed deer: Implications for disease spread and management. PLoSONE 9(3): e91043. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0091043 March 2014
Jennelle, C. S., M. D. Samuel, C. A. Nolden, and E. A. Berkley. 2009. White-tailed deer carcass decomposition and potential exposure of scavengers to chronic wasting disease. Journal of Wildlife Management. 73: 655-662. April 2009
Jennelle, C. S., M. D. Samuel, C. A. Nolden, D. P. Keane, D. J. Barr, C. Johnson, J. P. Vanderloo, and J. M. Aiken. Surveillance for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in scavengers of white-tailed deer carcasses in the chronic wasting disease area of Wisconsin. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health. 72:1018-1024. October 2009
Jara, R., C. Sepúlveda, H. S. IP, and M. D. Samuel. Serum protein concentration and diagnostic tests results using Nobuto filter paper strips for gray wolf (Canis lupus) serum. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 51:475-478. April 2015
Hénaux, V., M. D. Samuel, J. Parmley, and C. Soos. 2013. Estimating transmission of avian influenza in wild birds from incomplete epizootic data: implications for surveillance and disease spread. Journal of Applied Ecology 50: 223–231. January 2013
Hénaux, V., M. D. SAMUEL, R. J. Dusek, J. P. Fleskes, and H. S. Ip. 2012. Presence of Avian Influenza Viruses in Waterfowl and Wetlands during Summer 2010 in California: Are Resident Birds a Potential Reservoir? PLoS ONE: e31471. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031471 January 2012
Hobbelen, P. H. F., M. D. Samuel, D. Foote, L. Tango, and D. A. LaPointe. 2012. Modeling the impacts of global warming on predation and biotic resistance: mosquitoes, damselflies, and avian malaria in Hawaii. Theoretical Ecology. DOI 10.1007/s12080-011-0154-9. January 2012
Hobbelen, P. H. F., M. D. Samuel, D. A. LaPointe, and C. T. Atkinson. Modeling future conservation of Hawaiian honeycreepers by mosquito management and translocation of disease-tolerant Amakihi. PLos ONE 7(11): e49594. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049594. October 2012
Hill, D. E., M. D. Samuel, C. A. Nolden, N. Sundar, D. S. Zarlenga, and J. P. Dubey. 2008. Tichinella murrelli in scavenging mammals from south-central Wisconsin, USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. September 2008
Henaux, V., and M. D. Samuel. 2011. Avian influenza shedding patterns in waterfowl: Implications for surveillance, environmental transmission, and disease spread. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 47:566-578. July 2011
Henaux, V., M. D. Samuel, and C. M. Bunck. Model-Based Evaluation of HP and LP Avian Influenza Dynamics in Wild Birds. PLoS ONE 5(6): e10997. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0010997. June 2010
Hart, P. J., B. L. Woodworth, R. Camp, K. Turner, K. McClure, K. Goodall, C. Henneman, C. Spiegel, J. LeBrun, E. Tweed, J. Citta, and M. Samuel. Bird and resource variability across and elevational gradient in Hawaii. Auk. In April 2011
Grear, D. A., M. D. Samuel, K. T. Scribner, B. V. Weckworth, and J. A. Langenberg. Influence of genetic relatedness and spatial proximity on chronic wasting disease infection among female white-tailed deer. Journal of Applied Ecology. In Press. April 2010
Grear, D. A., M. D. Samuel, J. A. Langenberg, and D. Keane. Demographic patterns and harvest vulnerability of CWD infected white-tailed deer in Wisconsin. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:546-553. April 2006
Goldberg, D. R., M. D. Samuel, T. E. Rocke, K. M. Johnson and G. Linz. 2004. The risk of avian botulism outbreaks from avicide DRC-1339 in North Dakota wetlands. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32:870-880. December 2004
Dubey, J. P., N. Sundar, C. A. Nolden, M. D. Samuel, G. V. Velmurugan, L. A. Bandini, O. C. H. Kwok, B. Bodenstein, and C. Su. Characterization of Toxoplasma gondii from raccoons (Procyon lotor), coyotes (Canis latrans), and stripped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) in Wisconsin identified several atypical genotypes. 2007. Journal of Parasitology 93:1524-1527. December 2007
Docherty, D. E., M. D. Samuel, K. F. Egstad, K. M. Griffin, C. A. Nolden, L. Karwal, and H. S. Ip. 2009. Changes in West Nile seroprevalence and antibody titers among Wisconsin mesopredators 2003-2006. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 81:177-179. January 2009
Docherty, D. E., M. D. Samuel, C. A. Nolden, K. E. Egstad, and K. M. Griffn. 2006. West Nile Virus Antibody Prevalence in Medium-sized mammals in southern Wisconsin. Emerging Infectoius Diseases 12:1978-1980. December 2006
Docherty, D. E., M. D. Samuel, C. A. Nolden, K. E. Egstad, and K. M. Griffin. The Prevalence of West Nile Virus in Medium-sized mammals in southern Wisconsin. Emerging Infectious Diseases 12:1978-1980. Published. December 2006
Daniel J. Storm, Michael D. Samuel, Robert E. Rolley, Thomas Beissel, Bryan J. Richards, and Timothy R. Van Deelen. Estimating ages of White-tailed deer: age and sex patterns of error using tooth wear-and-replacement and consistency of cementum annuli. Wildlife Society Bulletin. 38:849-856. DOI: 10.1002/wsb.457. October 2014
Cross, P. C., J. Drewe, V. Patrek, G. Pearce, M. D. Samuel, and R. J. Delahay. 2009. Host population structure and implications for disease management. Pages 9-29 in R. J. Delahay, G. C. Smith, and M. R. Hutchings (eds.) Management of Disease in Wild Mammals. Springer-Verlag Tokyo, Inc. Tokyo. January 2009
Conner, M. M., J. E. Gross, P. C. Cross, M. R. Ebinger, R. R. Gillies, M. D. Samuel, and M. M. Miller. Scale-dependent approaches to modeling spatial epidemiology of chronic wasting disease. Utah Division of Wildlife, United States Geologic Survey, and Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies Report, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Available at: or all of the websites/CWD_Spatial_Modeling. pdf. March 2007
Conn, P. B., W. L. Kendall, and M. D. Samuel. 2004. A general model for the analysis of mark-resight, mark-recapture, and band recovery data under tag loss. Biometrics 60:900-909 December 2004
Blehert, D. S., K. L. Jefferson, D. M. Heisey, M. D. Samuel, B. M. Berlowski, and D. J. Shadduck. 2008. Using amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis to differentiate isolates of Pasteurella multocida Serotype 1. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 44:209-225. January 2008
Blanchong, J. A., S. J. Robinson, M. D. Samuel, and J. T. Foster. Application of Genetics and Genomics to Wildlife Epizootiology April 2016
Blanchong, J. A., M. D. Samuel, K. T. Scribner, B. V. Weckworth, J. A. Langenberg, and K. Filcek. 2008. Landscape genetics and the spatial distribution of chronic wasting disease. Biology Letters 4:130-133. doi:10. 1098/rsbl. 2007. 0523 January 2008
Blanchong, J. A., M. D. Samuel, D. R. Goldberg, D. J. Shadduck, and M. A. Lehr. 2006. Persistence of Pasteurella multocida in wetlands following avian cholera outbreaks. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 42:33-39. January 2006
Blanchong, J. A., M. D. Samuel, D. R. Goldberg, D. J. Shadduck, and L. H. Creekmore. 2006. Wetland environmental conditions associated with the risk of avian cholera outbreaks and the abundance of Pasteurella multocida. Journal of Wildlife Management 70:54-60. January 2006
Blanchong, J. A., J. D. Samuel and G. Mack. 2006. Multi-species patterns of avian cholera mortality in Nebraska's Rainwater Basin. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 42:81-91. January 2006
Blanchong, J. A., D. O. Joly, M. D. Samuel, J. A. Langenberg, R. E. Rolley, and J. F. Sausen. 2006. White-tailed deer harvest from the chronic wasting disease zone in south-central Wisconsin. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:725-731. November 2006
Blanchong, J. A., D. M., Heisey, K. T. S. Libants, Scribner, C. Johnson, J. M. Aiken, J. A. Langenberg, and M. D. Samuel. 2009. Genetic susceptibility to chronic wasting disease in free-ranging white-tailed deer: Complement component C1q and Prnp polymorphisms. Infection, Genetics, and Evolution 9:1329-1335. October 2009
Blanchong, J. A., D. A. Grear, B. V. Weckworth, D. P. Keane, K. T. Scribner, and M. D. SAMUEL. Effect of chronic wasting disease on reproduction and fawn harvest vulnerability in Wisconsin white-tailed deer. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 48:361-370. April 2012
Atkinson, C. T., Lease, J. K., R. J. Dusek, and M. D. Samuel. 2005. Prevalence of pox-like lesions and malaria in forest bird communities on leeward Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii. The Condor 107:537-546. September 2005
Atkinson, C. A., and M. D. Samuel. Avian Malaria (Plasmodium relictum) in Native Hawaiian Forest Birds: Epizootiology and Demographic Impacts on `Apapane (Himatione sanguinea). Journal of Avian Biology. In Press. June 2010
Anderson, J. L., J. K. Meece, J. J. Koziczkowski, J. L. Clark, Jr., R. D. Radcliff, C. A. Nolden, M. D. Samuel, and J. L. E. Ellingson. Mycobacterium avium subsp. Paratuberculosis in scavenging mammals in Wisconsin. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 43:302-308. April 2007
Ahumada, J. A., M. D. Samuel, D. C. Duffy, A. Dobson, and P. H. F. Hobbelen. 2009. Modeling the epidemiology of avian malaria and pox in Hawaii. Page 331-335 in Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds. T. K. Pratt, C. T. Atkinson, P. C. Banko, J. Jacobi, and B. L. Woodworth (eds.). Yale University Press, New Haven. October 2009
Ahumada, J. A., D. LaPointe, and M. D. Samuel. 2004. Modeling the populaion dynamics of Culex quinqueasciatu (Diptera: Culicidae) along an elevation gradient in Hawaii. Journal of Medical Entomology 41:1157-1170 December 2004
Wasserberg, G., E. E. Osnas, R. E. Rolley, and M. D. Samuel. 2009. Host culling as an adaptive management tool for chronic wasting disease – a modeling study. Journal of Applied Ecology 46:457-466. April 2009
Piazza, T. M., D. S. Blehert, F. M. Dunning, B. M. Berlowski-Zier, F. N. Zeytin. M. D. SAMUEL, and W. C. Tucker. 2011. In vitro detection and quantification of botulinum neurotoxin type E activity in avian blood. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77:7815-7822. December 2011
Project Completion Date
CWD Deposition and Environmental Reservoirs February 2016
Valuing Wildlife in the US October 2015
Further Development of Forester Resonance Energy Transfer Methods for Detection of Botulinum Neurotoxin with Application to the Ecology of Type E Botulism in Lake Michigan August 2014
Vulnerability of Hawaiian forest birds to climate change June 2016
CWD shedding across cervid species and natural deposition January 2014
Development of PMCA for detection of CWD prions August 2013
Chronic Wasting Disease - Evaluation of Disease Patterns and Management Actions June 2011
Landscape Genetics to Investigate CWD in Wisconsin White-Tailed Deer Population June 2011
Predicting the Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease in an Agricultural Landscape September 2011
The Role of Environmental and Direct Transmision in Chronic Wasting Disease Dynamics September 2012
Title: Application of landscape genetic techniques to investigation of CWD dynamics and transmission in Wisconsin white-tailed deer populations December 2009
Spatial modeling of Chronic Wasting Disease epizootiology and disease management strategies June 2012
Modeling the dynamics of avian influenza in wild birds and potential transmission with domestic fowl December 2010
Has CWD produced genetic selection in the Wisconsin white-tailed deer populations? December 2013
Factors affecting CWD transmission: A comparison of CWD epizootics in Wisconsin and Illinois August 2010
Development of F�rster Resonance Energy Transfer Methods for Detection of Botulinum Neurotoxin with Application to the Ecology of Type E Botulism in Lake Michigan July 2011
Computer modeling of conservation strategies for avian malaria in Hawaiian forest birds September 2010
Effects of Climate Change on Plague Exposure Pathways and Resulting Disease Dynamics January 2019

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Presentations Presentation Date
Samuel, M.D., C. S. Jennelle, V. Henaux, S. J. Robinson, and D. J. Storm. 2013. Transmission, Spread, and Management of CWD in White-tailed Deer. Wildlife Society Conference, Mulwaukee, WI, 5-10 October, 2013. October 2013
Samuel, M.D., B. L. Woodworth, C. T. Atkinson, and P. J. Hart. Application of Bayesian Multi-State Models to Avian Malaria in Hawaiian Forest Birds Using Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Data. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference, October 2014. October 2014
Samuel, M.D., B. L. Woodworth, C. T. Atkinson, P. J. Hart, and D. A. LaPointe. The Perplexing Problem of Avian Pox in Hawaiian Forest Birds. Hawaii Conservation Conference July 2014
Samuel, M. D., C. T. Atkinson, D. A. LaPointe, B. L. Woodworth, J. Liao, and P.J. Hart. 2014. Disease in Hawaiian Forest Birds: Current Patterns and Future Threats. The American Ornithologists' Union Meeting. September 2014. September 2014
Samuel, M. D., B. L. Woodworth, C. T. Atkinson, and P. J. Hart. Application of Bayesian multi-state models to avian malaria in Hawaiian forest birds using longitudinal and cross sectional data. Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics (RAPIDD) workshop. January 2015, Fort Collins, CO. January 2015
Samuel, M. D., B. L. Woodworth, C. T. Atkinson, P. J. Hart, and D. A. LaPointe. The Perplexing Problem of Avian Pox in Hawaiian Forest Birds Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 2013. October 2013
Samuel, M. D., B. L. Woodworth, C. T. Atkinson, P. J. Hart, and D. A. LaPointe. The Perplexing Problem of Avian Pox in Hawaiian Forest Birds Wildlife Disease Association International Conference, Knoxville, TN, July 2013. July 2013
Samuel, M. D., B. L. Woodworth, C. T. Atkinson, and P. J. Hart. Avian Malaria in Hawaiian Forest Birds: Infection and Population Impacts across Species and Elevations. Hawaii Conservation Conference. July 2014
Samuel, M. D. Overview and next directions for CWD in the wild. Western States Deer and Elk Conference, May, 2015, Canmore, AB, Canada. (Invited Plenary Presentation) May 2015
Samuel, M. D. CWD in Wild Cervids: Where We’ve Been and What’s Next. Webinar hosed by USGS Ecosystems and Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. July 7, 2015. July 2015
Samuel, M. D. 2012. What you always wanted to know about chronic wasting disease, but were afraid to ask. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Portland, OR, 13-18 Oct. (INVITED) October 2012
Robinson, S., M. D. Samuel, C. Johnson, J. A. Blanchong, D. J. Grear, and M. Adams. 2013. Evolutionary impacts of wildlife disease: selective pressure of CWD in white-tailed deer. Wildlife Society Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 5-10 October, 2013. October 2013
Robinson, S. J., and M. D. Samuel. Modeling the spread of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer using genetic data. Annual Wildlife Society Conference, October 2014. October 2014
Robinson S., M. Samuel, D. Lopez, P. Shelton. 2013. The walk is never random: using novel modeling approaches to detect subtle landscape effects with in a continuous white-tailed deer population in the Midwestern United States. Wildlife Society Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 5-10 October, 2013. October 2013
Plummer, I., C. Johnson, S. Wright, J. Pedersen, and M. Samuel. Temporal Chronic Wasting Disease Prion Shedding Patterns via Urine and Feces of Three Species of North American Cervids. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference October 2014. October 2014
Plummer, I. C. Johnson, J. Peterson, and M. D. Samuel. DETECTION OF CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE PRIONS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL SOURCES BY PROTEIN MISFOLDING CYCLIC AMPLIFICATION. Wildlife Disease Association International Conference, Knoxville, TN, July 2013. July 2013
Liao, W., M. Samuel, O. Timm, C. Zhang, C. Atkinson, and D. LaPointe. The Effects Of Climate Change On Avian Malaria And Hawaiian Forest Birds. The Wildlife Society Annual Coniference, October 2014. October 2014
Liao, W., M. D. Samuel, O. E. Timm, C. Zhang, C. Atkinson, and D. LaPointe. Preliminary evaluation of mitigation strategies for avian malaria in Hawaii. 2015 Conservation of Hawaiian Forest Birds Forum, September, 2015, Honolulu, HI. September 2015
Liao, W., M. D. Samuel, O. E. Timm, C. Zhang, C. Atkinson, and D. LaPointe. Preliminary evaluation of mitigation strategies for avian malaria in Hawaii. 2015 Climate Science Symposium, February, 2015, Honolulu, HI. February 2015
Liao, W., M. D. Samuel, O. E. Timm, C. Zhang, C. Atkinson, and D. LaPointe. The Effects of Climate Change on Avian Malaria and Hawaiian Forest Birds. Hawaii Conservation Conference July 2014
Johnson, C. J., M. Thompson, C. B. Smith, M. Samuel, and J.A. Pedersen. Protein associated with cervid chronic wasting disease in environmental samples. Prion 2013, Baniff, Canada, May 26-29, 2013. (poster) May 2013
Jennelle, C. J., V. Henaux, M. D. Samuel, B. Thiagarajan, G. Wasserberg, and R. E. Rolley. Modeling transmission of chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin white-tailed deer: Making models useful for management. Western States Deer and Elk Conference, May, 2015, Canmore, AB, Canada. May 2015
Jara, R. F., and M. D. Samuel. Seroprevalence of Lyme disease, anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis and heartworm in Gray Wolves from Wisconsin between 1985 and 2008. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Portland, OR, 13-18 Oct. (Poster) October 2012
Jara, R. F., M. D. Samuel, R. Schultz, and A. Wydeven. Spatial and temporal pattern of Gray Wolf exposure to vector-borne diseases in Wisconsin. Ecological Society of America. Baltimore, MD, August, 2015. August 2015
Harms, N. J., J. Foster, A. Dallaire, G. Gilchrist, J. Hill, S. Iverson, S. Lair, F. Leighton, S. McBurney, G. Robertson, M. Samuel, G. Séguin, H. Whitney, M. Wille, and C. Soos 2014. MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY OF AVIAN CHOLERA IN NORTHERN CANADA. 63rd Internationial Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico. July 2014
Harms, N. J., J. Foster, A. Dallaire, G. Gilchrist, J. Hill, S. Iverson, S. Lair, F. Leighton, S. McBurney, G. Robertson, M. Samuel, G. Séguin, H. Whitney, M. Wille, and C. Soos. 2014. Tracking aviani cholera in northern Canada. 5th Intrnational Sea Duck Conference, 8-12 September, 2014. September 2014
Guillaumet, A., W. Kuntz, M. Samuel, and E. Paxton. Distributional patterns in Iʻiwi: seasonal movements and distribution of disease. Hawaii Conservation Conference, Hilo, HI, August, 2015. July 2015
Technical Publications Publication Date
Samuel, M. D., D. O. Joly, M. A. Wild, S. D. Wright, D. L. Otis, R. W. Werger, and M. W. Miller. 2003. Surveillance strategies for detecting chronic wasting disease in free-ranging deer and elk: Results of a CWD surveillance workshop. National Wildlife Health Center website. 43pp. May 2003
Hopkins, M.C., Carlson, C.M., Cross, P.C., Johnson, C.J., Richards, B.J., Russell, R.E., Samuel, M.D., Sargeant, G.A., Walsh, D.P., and Walter, W.D., 2019, Chronic wasting disease—Research by the U.S. Geological Survey and partners: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019‒1109, 29 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20191109. September 2019
Conner, M.M., J. E. Gross, P. C. Cross, M. R. Ebinger, R. R. Gillies, M. D. Samuel, and M. M. Miller. Scale-dependent approaches to modeling spatial epidemiology of chronic wasting disease. Utah Division of Wildlife, United States Geologic Survey, and Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Report, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Available at: or all of the websites/CWD_Spatial_Modeling.pdf. July 2007
Bollinger, T., P. Caley, E. Merrill, F. Messier, M. W. Miller, M. D. Samuel, and E. Vanopdenbosch. 2004. Chronic wasting disease in Canadian Wildlife: An expert opinion on the epidemiology and risks to wild deer. Final report to the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre. July 2004. July 2004
Paxton, E. H., J. Burgett, E. McDonald-Fadden, E. Bean, C. T. Atkinson, D. Ball, C. Cole, L. H. Crampton, J. Kraus, D. A. LaPointe, L. Mehrhoff, M. D. SAMUEL, D. C. Brewer, S. J. Converse, and S. Morey. 2012. Keeping Hawai’i’s Forest Birds One Step Ahead of Avian Diseases in a Warming World: a focus on Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge: A Case Study from the Structured Decision Making Workshop, February 28-March 4, 2011, Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii USA. http://nctc.fws.gov/CSP/Resources/Decision_Analysis/feb_2011/2011%20SDM%20workshop%20Hawaii%20forest%20birds%20under%20climate%20change.pdf August 2012
Role and Organization Individual         Start Date        End Date       
The Wildlife Society - Member Samuel January 1990 Present
The Wildlife Society - Member Samuel January 1980 Present
The Wildlife Society - Board Member, Biometrics Working Group Samuel January 1988 December 1989
The Wildlife Disease Association - Member Samuel January 2002 Present
North American Waterfowl Management Program - Representative, Technical Committee, Arctic Goose Joint Venture Board Samuel October 2006 September 2007
Biometric Society - Member Samuel January 1990 Present