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

Staff Member

Matthew Gould

Matt Gould with a black bear captured in Montana.
PhD

Biography

I received my B.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Montana. I'm originally from Montana, I am an avid outdoorsman and love to hunt, fish, and backpack. . I solidified my direction in the wildlife profession while working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grizzly Bear Recovery Project in northwest Montana. My research passion lies with carnivore linkage zone and corridor ecology. Currently, my Ph.D. research is focused on estimating abundance and density of black bears in the Sangre de Cristo and Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico and determining patterns of phylogeographic relateness of black bear populations across the Southwest in New Mexico, Arizona and southern Colorado.

Research Publications Publication Date
Gould, M.J., W.R. Gould, J.W. Cain III, and G.W Roemer. 2019. Validating performance of occupancy models for estimating habitat use and predicting the distribution of highly-mobile species: a case study using the American black bear. Biological Conservation 234:28-36. | Download March 2019
Gould, M.J., J.W. Cain III, T.C. Atwood, L.E. Harding, H.E. Johnson, D.P. Onorato, F.S. Winslow, and G.W. Roemer. 2022. Pleistocene-Holocene vicariance not Anthropocene landscape change, explains the genetic structure of American black bear (Ursus americanus) populations in the American Southwest and northern Mexico. Ecology and Evolution 12:e9406 . https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9406 October 2022
Gould, M.J., J.W. Cain III, G.W. Roemer, W.R. Gould, and S. G. Liley. 2018. Density of American black bears in New Mexico. Journal of Wildlife Management 82:775-788. | Download May 2018
Project Completion Date
Estimation of black bear densities in New Mexico using noninvasive genetic analyses December 2016
Presentations Presentation Date
Gould, M.J., J.W. Cain, III, G.W. Roemer, W.R. Gould, and S.G. Liley. 2012. Estimating American black bear (Ursus americanus) abundance and density in New Mexico using noninvasive genetic analysis. 19th Annual National Conference of The Wildlife Society, Portland, Oregon. October 2012
Gould, M.J., J.W. Cain III, G.W. Roemer, and W.R. Gould. 2015. Estimating abundance and density of American black bears (Ursus americanus) in New Mexico using noninvasive genetic sampling-based capture-recapture methods. 48th Joint Annual Meeting of the Arizona/New Mexico Chapters of The Wildlife Society, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. February 2015
Gould, M.J., J.W. Cain III, G.W. Roemer, and W.R. Gould. 2015. Estimating abundance and density of American black bears (Ursus americanus) in New Mexico using noninvasive genetic sampling-based capture-recapture methods. 48th Joint Annual Meeting of the Arizona/New Mexico Chapters of The Wildlife Society, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA. February 2014
Gould, M.J., J.W. Cain III, G.W. Roemer, W.R. Gould, and S.G. Liley. 2015. Estimating density of American black bears in New Mexico, United States of America. 5th International Wildlife Management Congress, Sapporo, Japan. July 2015
Gould, M.J., J.W. Cain III, G.W. Roemer, W.R. Gould, and S.G. Liley. 2014. Estimating the abundance and density of black bears in New Mexico using non-invasive genetic analysis. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Pittsburg, PA. October 2014
Gould, M.J., J.W. Cain III, G.W. Roemer, W.R. Gould, and S.G. Liley. 2014. Estimating the abundance and density of American black bears (Ursus americanus) in New Mexico using non-invasive genetic analysis. 47th Joint Annual Meeting of the Arizona/New Mexico Chapters of The Wildlife Society, Pinetop, Arizona, New Mexico, USA. February 2014
Gould, M. J., J.W. Cain III, G.W. Roemer, W.R. Gould, and S.G. Liley. 2013. Estimating the abundance and density of American black bears (Ursus Americanus) in New Mexico using non-invasive genetic analysis. 46th Joint Annual Meeting of the Arizona/New Mexico Chapters of The Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. February 2013
Technical Publications Publication Date
Gould, M.J., J.W. Cain III, G.W. Roemer, and W.R. Gould. 2016. Estimating abundance and density of American black bears (Ursus americanus) in New Mexico using noninvasive genetic sampling coupled with spatially explicit capture-recapture methods. Report provided by the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Program. U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Cooperator Science Series FWS/CSS-120-2016, National Conservation Training Center. June 2016