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January Membership Meeting: The Use of Remote Cameras to Assess Wildlife Diversity in the Sunol-Ohlone Regional Wilderness
Tuesday 03 January 2017, 07:30pm
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Location: Carlton Plaza 3800 Walnut Avenue, Fremont 94538
Presenter: Steven Bobzien

To kick off our 2017 membership meetings, we will have Steven Bobzien, the Ecological Services Coordinator (Wildlife Ecologist) of East Bay Regional Park District to talk about the use of remote cameras to document vertebrate Diversity, carnivore abundance and behavior in Sunol-Ohlone Regional Wilderness, on January 3rd.

For decades, District Stewardship staff, University Scientist, and other agency biologists have conducted research projects throughout the District including the Sunol-Ohlone Regional Wilderness. Although a tremendous amount of information has been collected and analyzed, many data gaps on fundamental ecology persist throughout the region. Recently technological advances allow biologists to sample and monitor animal populations without ever physically harassing, capturing or handling individuals. The use of noninvasive remote cameras sampling methods are well suited to wildlife that are elusive, difficult to detect, and occur at low densities. Steve will present some of his results from remote camera traps and illustrate their effectiveness in improving our understanding of the ecological relationships, population dynamics, and behavior of several carnivore taxa in the Sunol-Ohlone Regional Wilderness.

Steven Bobzien has been a wildlife ecologist for 40 years and has worked throughout the western United States and South America including Galapagos Islands, Amazonia, and Patagonia. Steven is professionally interested in vertebrate evolution, carnivore ecology, and predator-prey relationships. Steven served as the President of the San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society and on many scientific advisory committees, notably the California Essential Habitat Connectivity Project, San Francisco Bay Area Upland Habitat Goals Project, and the Recovery Team for Tidal Marsh Ecosystems of Northern and Central California. For twenty two yearsSteven has worked for the East Bay Regional Park District where he focuses on the conservation and management of rare, threatened, and endangered species. Steven is also the principle investigator of incidents involving human-carnivore conflict in the Park District and working with Panthera on a collaborative mountain lion research project in the East Bay. In addition to the Park District, Steven recently returned to the Galapagos Islands conducting a biological assessment for the Charles Darwin Research Center and Ecuadorian Department of Tourism.

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