Archives: Profiles
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Wildlife Rehabilitation
Wildlife rehabilitation is the process of nursing sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife back to health so that they can be returned to the wild.
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Trophic Cascade
When removing a top predator from an ecosystem causes a domino effect down the entire food chain, it's called a trophic cascade.
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Kathryn M. Beheshti
Dr. Kathryn Beheshti is an assistant researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute. Kat is a coastal marine ecologist that specializes in restoration ecology of salt marsh, seagrass, and kelp habitats. Kat received her Ph.D. from the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2021.…
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Brent Hughes
Brent is a marine ecologist and conservation biologist with Sonoma State University. Research in his lab seeks to determine the processes that affect the stability of coastal ecosystems. Brent’s research centers around coastal habitats like seagrass, salt marsh, and kelp (aka foundation species), which provide valuable ecosystem services that we depend on and are threatened…
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Biocultural Restoration
Biocultural restoration is the practice of revitalizing both ecological systems and the cultures of communities connected to those ecosystems.
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Biological Survey
When scientists systematically review the plants, animals, and other life in a freshwater ecosystem like a lake or river, it is called a biological survey or biosurvey.
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) refers to the body of knowledge, practices, and beliefs acquired by Indigenous people over hundreds or thousands of years through direct contact with their environment.
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Rios Pacheco
Rios Pacheco is Northwest Shoshone and Kewa Pueblo. He is a Tribal Elder in the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and serves as the Tribe’s Cultural Analyst and Advisor.
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Brad Parry
Brad Parry has served as the Vice Chairman for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation Tribal Council since 2017. He is employed by the Tribe as the Natural Resources Officer.
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Acoustic Monitoring
Passive acoustic monitoring — often simply called acoustic monitoring — is a tool used by ecologists and conservationists to study wildlife in their natural environment.
