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

Colorado Technical Assistance Activities

Rafting Grand Canyon during the evaluation of the Upper Colorado River Recovery Program.

Description and Agency Provider(s) Date
Workshop on the comprehensive analysis of northern spotted owl demography data ("Northern Spotted Owl Demography Workshop".) Second workshop dealt with capture-recapture and fecundity and some covariates and habitat data.)
 Burnham January 2004
USFWS Wetlands and Trends project at the USFWS offices in LaCrosse, WI on the current update of the national monitoring plots that provided a status and trends reports to Congress for the period of 1997-2004.
 Burnham June 2005
Traveled to Oregon Wildlife Research Unit to discuss technical issues about statistical analysis of northern spotted owl data at their request.
 Burnham August 2002
Toured Horsetooth Reservoir near Ft. Collins, CO with CDOW biologist to evaluate ridges built by crews from Northern CO Water Conservancy District as part of first phase of habitat restoration project for reservoir. Bergersen is technical coordinator for project.
 Bergersen September 2002
Stephen's kangaroo rat monitoring workshop for MCB Camp Pendleton.
 Burnham July 2004
San Clemente Island Fox Monitoring Planning Workshop
 Burnham January 2006
Mathematical Biosciences Institute Workshop 5: Uncertainty in Ecological Analysis (Ohio State University)
 Burnham April 2006
Invited participant on the six-member Scientific Peer Review Panel as part of the Pacific Pocket Mouse (PPM) Monitoring Worshop for Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton (MCBCP).
 Burnham September 2007
Invited participant in an international workshop "Protecting Apes from Eboloa" organized by the Max-Planck Institute for Anthropology (Germany)held at FWS HQ, Arlington,VA.
 Burnham March 2005
Invited expert, Technical Team for In-Water Monitoring of Loggerhead Sea Turtles, NOAA/National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA / National Marine Fisheries Service 		Moore, Kendall November 2016
I was one of the organizers of the 5th Northern Spotted Owl Demography Workshop held at Oregon State University, January 9-18, 2009. I also participated as a senior analyst and helped draft the Studies in Avian Biology volume that resulted from this effort.
Northern Spotted Owl Effectiveness Monitoring Program 		Anderson, Anthony, Burnham January 2008
I was one of the organizers of the 4th Northern Spotted Owl Demography Workshop held at Oregon State University, January 4-11, 2004. I also participated as a junior analyst and helped draft the technical report and Wildlife Monograph that resulted from this effort.
Northern Spotted Owl Effectiveness Monitoring Program 		Anthony, Anderson, Burnham June 2003
Consulted with Colorado Parks and Wildlife on stream temperature standards
Colorado Parks and Wildlife 		Winkelman February 2020
Consulted with Colorado Parks and Wildlife on Hydroacoustics assessment of pelagic fishes in Colorado
Colorado Parks and Wildlife 		Winkelman July 2020
Consulted with Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment on ongoing management and implementation of temperature standards in Colorado Streams and Rivers
Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment 		Winkelman February 2020
CITES/MIKE "Mike Dung Count Task Force Meeting" held at USFWS HQ (Arlington, VA) sponsored by Division of International Conservation. This meeting initiated the formal establishment of standards (for MIKE sites that will use) for population surveys based on elephant dung count (line transects) surveys combined with decay rate studies and defecation studies. The ultimate result will be guidelines and protocols for design, implementation and field conduct of such studies in Central adn Western Africa, India and Southeast Asia.
 Burnham October 2003
CITES-MIKE TAG meeting. A variety of technical issues were dealt with for example how to interpret data, on illegal activities recorded by the enforcement patrols. Some sort of catch-per-unit-effort approach is needed, but what to use for "effort."
 Burnham April 2003
Avian Influenza Monitoring Committee met with scientists from Colorado State University, USDA-APHIS-NWRC,SMR (Surveillance, Monitoring and Research project), and Wildlife Services.
 Burnham July 2006
Attended a MIKE TAG meeting at the Frendham Ponds Hotel(near Farnham, England).
 Burnham May 2002
Attended TAG meeting in Windhoek, Namibia
 Burnham December 2003
Assisted Colorado Division of Wildlife biologist in drafting habitat restoration plan for Fort Collins City Park Lake.
 Bergersen December 2002
Anthony, R., D. Anderson, K. Burnham, G. C. White, A. B. Franklin, and J. Nichols. Workshop on Analysis of Demographic Rates of Northern Spotted Owls. Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Corvallis, Oregon (6-11 January 2004).
 Burnham January 2004
Role - Description Provider         Start Date        End Date       
Warner College of Natural Resources Administrative Council - Administrative guidance and assistance to Dean John Hayes, Warner College of Natural Resources Winkelman August 2014 Present
Graduate Degree Program in Ecology (GDPE)/Colorado State University - I am the elected government representative on the on the GDPE Executive Committee that helps govern the program at Colorado State University. Winkelman August 2017 Present
Chair/Graduate Admissions Committee/ Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology/ Colorado State University - Responsible for admitting MS and PhD students into the department graduate program Winkelman August 2012 Present
Role and Organization Individual         Start Date        End Date       
Technical Advisor, Wind River Alliance, Ethete, WY Bergersen December 2001 December 2003
Technical Advisor, Colorado 4-H Sportfishing Program. Bergersen September 2001 February 2002
Member, interview panel for Fisheries Chief, Colorado Division of Wildlife Bergersen December 2002 December 2002
Member, interview panel for Fish Researcher Position, Colorado Division of Wildlife Bergersen November 2002 November 2002
Member, interview panel for Fish Health Biologist, Colorado Division of Wildlife Bergersen October 2001 October 2001
Member, interview panel for Aquatic Research Leader, Colorado Division of Wildlife, Denver, CO Bergersen December 2001 December 2001
Member, interview board for west region Senior Aquatic Biologist, Colorado Division of Wildlife Bergersen December 2002 December 2002
Member, interview board for Fish Pathologist, Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory, Colorado Division of Wildlife Bergersen December 2001 December 2001
Member, Great Plains Fishery Workers Bergersen March 2002 February 2003
Adhoc Member, Scientific Committee, International Whaling Commission Burnham July 2001 July 2001
Outreach Activity Provider(s)        Date       
Volunteer host boater in C.A.S.T. (Cast a Special Thrill) Program for handicapped anglers at Horsetooth Reservoir, Fort Collins, CO. Sponsored the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Bergersen July 2001
Presented fish habitat management and whirling disease session at CSU Annual Wildlife Short Course Bergersen March 2002
Ken Burnham hosted Elliott Sober, Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, at the Unit. He was invited to discuss his two areas of particular interest with students and faculty: (1) evolution and cladistics, and (2) the role of likelihood theory and AICA model selection in inference. Burnham February 2003
Hosted Dr. Tom Siks, Leslie Ries and James Battin, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, for discussions on statistical issues on bird and butterfly research Burnham November 2001
Fish Tracking and Underwater Sounds presented to Denver Chapter, Muskie, Inc. Bergersen June 2002
Eric Bergersen participated in the Horsetooth Reservoir Fish Habitat Enhancement Project Work Day and coordinated volunteer efforts to construct tree, rock and brush shelters. Bergersen March 2003