Massachusetts Technical Assistance Activities

Description and Agency | Provider(s) | Date |
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Webinar, Conservation Science Web Conference Series CSP3900 08/20/2009 Striped bass movements and diets in coastal Massachusetts usfws |
2009-08-20 | |
Team Coordinator for Structured Decision Making workshop Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife |
Roy | 2020-02-01 |
Provided information on rat control in seabird colonies to the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology |
Sievert | 2003-11-01 |
Organizer, Workshop on An Introduction to Best Practices in Species Distribution Modeling (SDMs). Participants originate from Kansas State University and Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism. Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, Tourism |
Mather | 2010-09-01 |
Northeastern Naturalist, Guest Editor, Manuscript on Striped bass Winter Movements, 2009-2010 NGO |
Mather | 2009-12-01 |
NE AFS Student Paper Judge, Committee Chair, April, 2010. National Marine Fisheries Service |
Mather | 2010-04-10 |
Member, SeaGrant Review Panel SeaGrant (Maine) |
2007-09-30 | |
Member, Research Grade Evaluation Panel, U.S. Geological Survey USGS |
2005-11-30 | |
Member, National Undersea Research Review Panel, Monterey, CA NURP |
2003-10-31 | |
Maine Atlantic salmon program through Seagrant: Attended advisory session, July 2008 NOAA |
Mather | 2008-07-25 |
Lower Connecticut River Studies Group, member, organized by Ken Sprankle, USFWS. With fisheries biologists from Connecticut, identify research and education opportunities in the lower Connecticut River.
USFWS |
Mather | 2008-09-01 |
Led teacher's workshop for middle and high school teachers in Springfield under the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Sustainable Springfield Urban Partnership Springfield Teachers |
Roy | 2016-06-28 |
Invited Expert. Resilience of North Atlantic Diadromous Fish Assemblages, April 1-2, 2010, University of Maine, Orono. University of Maine |
Mather | 2010-03-15 |
Invited Expert. Assessing river herring declines, Providence, RI, January 2008
Environmental Defense Fund |
2008-01-31 | |
Invited Expert and Panelist, Restore America’s Estuaries, Coffeehouse Panel on Integrating Natural and Social Sciences, Providence, RI, October, 2008
Restore America's Estuaries |
2008-10-01 | |
Habitat availability for vulnerable species in the forests of the Gorbea National Park, Northern Spain; review and comment of habitat characteristics for northern goshawks, 15 Jan. 2004. |
DeStefano | 2004-01-01 |
Fish and Fisheries Focus Lunch Series, Organizer. Spring, 2010. Goal: To write a mission statement and “brand brochure” for fish and fisheries research and graduate education at Umass-Amherst. University of Massachusetts |
Mather | 2009-09-15 |
Developed a model to simulate the population growth of the endangered short-tailed albatross. |
Sievert | 2002-11-01 |
Developed a model to simulate population growth of black-footed albatrosses on Torishima, Japan |
Sievert | 2003-12-01 |
Developed a demographic model to simulate the growth of the spotted turtle population in Massachusetts. |
Sievert | 2002-12-01 |
Developed a demographic model to simulate the growth of the Blanding's turtle population in Massachusetts. |
Sievert | 2002-12-01 |
Demonstration on Video Camera Set-up, Organizer, for DMF biologists, January 2010. MDMF |
Mather | 2009-01-01 |
Cooperator Data Exchange, Striped bass acoustic tag data exchange (DMF, UNH, CT DEP, DSU). Atlantic States |
Mather | 2008-09-01 |
Conte Refuge Education and Outreach Collaborative Venture, Planning committee member. With Robert Muth (UMASS), Ken Sprankle (USFWS), Sarah Bevilacqua (USFWS), Sarah Wells (undergraduate, UMASS). Goal: To explore opportunities for undergraduate and graduate outreach and field research experience in the Connecticut River. USFWS |
Mather | 2008-09-01 |
Collaborated with the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, and the USFWS, in a satellite telemetry study of short-tailed albatrosses. |
Sievert | 2002-05-01 |
Role - Description | Provider | Start Date | End Date |
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Statistical Examiner, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program | Sievert | 2004-01-01 | Present |
Search Committee for Population Ecologist/Biostatistician - Evaluated and selected candidates to be interviewed; assisted with logistics of interview process; made recommendations to Department Head and Dean. | DeStefano | 2015-01-01 | 2015-04-30 |
School of Marine Sciences, Campus Representative | Mather | 2006-01-01 | 2007-12-31 |
School of Marine Sciences Admissions Committee | Mather | 2004-01-01 | 2010-12-31 |
Participant, MS Comprehensive Exam Reevaluation Ad-Hoc Committee, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts | Roy | 2015-08-01 | 2016-03-31 |
Participant, Environmental Conservation Fisheries Curriculum Committee, University of Massachusetts Amherst | Roy | 2012-09-01 | Present |
OEB Seminar Committee Chair | Roy | 2017-05-01 | 2020-06-30 |
OEB Seminar Committee | Roy | 2014-10-01 | 2017-05-31 |
Member, School of Marine Sciences | Mather | 2004-09-01 | 2010-12-31 |
Member, Quantitative Sciences Group - Provide weekly statistical consulting to graduate students and faculty at the University of Massachusetts. | Sievert | 2008-09-01 | Present |
Member, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Steering Committee | Sievert | 2001-01-01 | Present |
Member, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee | Sievert | 2012-01-01 | Present |
Member, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee | Mather | 1998-09-01 | 2004-09-30 |
Environmental Conservation Graduate Student Symposium (ECoGSS) | Roy | 2017-04-01 | 2018-03-31 |
Conservation Genetics Search Committee | Roy | 2016-09-01 | 2017-01-31 |
Committee Member, Science and Technical Advisory Committee, Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Review management activities of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation statewide conservation and watershed lands, with emphasis on forest and watershed management. Serve as expert on forest wildlife ecology and conservation. | DeStefano | 2010-06-01 | Present |
Chair, ECo Doctoral Program Vision Ad-Hoc Committee, Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts | Roy | 2015-02-01 | 2015-04-30 |
Chair and Member, Graduate Admissions Committee for Organismic and Evolutionary Biology | Sievert | 2005-01-01 | Present |
Associate Director, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program | Sievert | 2010-01-01 | Present |
Role and Organization | Individual | Start Date | End Date |
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Plum Island Long Term Ecological Research Site All Scientists Meeting | Mather | 1999-01-01 | 2017-12-31 |
Planning Team, The River's Calendar Symposium | Roy | 2012-05-01 | 2012-12-31 |
Planning Team, 3rd Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology | Roy | 2012-02-01 | 2014-05-31 |
Member, Wood Turtle Working Group | Sievert | 2010-09-01 | Present |
Member, Snake Disease Working Group | Sievert | 2012-08-01 | Present |
Member, Short-tailed Albatross Recovery Team | Sievert | 2002-11-01 | Present |
Member, Northeast Regional Blanding's Turtle Working Group | Sievert | 2004-02-01 | Present |
Member, North Pacific Albatross Working Group | Sievert | 2002-11-01 | Present |
Member, Herpetological Conservation Working Group | Sievert | 2007-09-01 | Present |
Lead Organizer, Continuous Monitoring of Temperature and Flow Workshop | Roy | 2013-12-01 | 2014-11-30 |
Journal Boot Camp: Society for Freshwater Science | Roy | 2018-05-01 | 2018-05-31 |
Early Career Lunch Workshop: Society for Freshwater Science | Roy | 2018-05-01 | 2018-05-31 |
Outreach Activity | Provider(s) | Date |
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Moose in southern New England?, Interview for Redding Pilot. | DeStefano | 2014-08-12 |
Massachusetts and moose: meant for each other, Interview for Boston Globe. | DeStefano | 2014-05-15 |
Ipswich Rotary Speaker Coauthor | Mather | 2007-07-10 |
Interviewed for article on Yankee Magazine on moose in New England, including information on status, climate change, winter ticks. | DeStefano | 2016-06-15 |
Coauthor, Marthas Vinyard Surfcasters Annual Banquet Presentation | Mather | 2006-12-15 |
A Day in the Life of a Fisheries Biologist. Day-long event for 5th graders of Leverett and Shutesbury Elementary Schools where we provided them field and lab experiences to understand some things we do as aquatic ecologists. I led stations on macroinvertebrate sampling (field) and identification (lab). | Roy | 2017-05-01 |
A Day in the Life of a Fisheries Biologist. Day-long event for 5th graders of Leverett Elementary School where we provided them field and lab experiences to understand some things we do as aquatic ecologists. I led stations on macroinvertebrate sampling (field) and identification (lab). | Roy | 2018-05-01 |