Wildlife Biologist

Degrees & Diplomas

B.Sc.: California State University, Hayward (Biological Science) 1968

Research Interests

• Wildlife use of disturbed and undisturbed habitats
• Wildlife surveying
• Industry-related impacts to wildlife
• Biodiversity
• Natural history
• Threatened and endangered species

Capsule Resume

Bob is a wildlife biologist who joined LGL in 1988. He worked with gulls for three years focusing on bird hazards to aircraft in the San Francisco Bay Area, and has worked extensively with shorebirds in the Bay Area and the Gulf Coast of Texas. Bob has worked internationally using telemetry to track Birds of Paradise in Papua New Guinea, conducted forest inventories for bird species in Uganda, and has conducted natural history tours in Mexico. He has conducted shipboard surveys for marine birds and mammals in the Gulf of Alaska and the Bering Sea, and has surveyed terrestrial birds and mammals on Aleutian Islands. Since coming to LGL Bob has worked on projects involving bird use of disturbed and undisturbed habitats in the Prudhoe Bay area, and has conducted aerial and ground surveys of birds and mammals in the NPR-A, at Point Thomson, and in the Badami area of the North Slope of Alaska. He also investigated arctic fox use of natural and anthropogenic den sites and food sources at Prudhoe Bay. Bob has participated in aerial surveys of waterfowl in the central Beaufort Sea area and in aerial polar bear surveys from Barrow to the Canadian Border. He has worked on various EISs related to potential development in the offshore areas of the outer continental shelf, the Alaskan Chukchi and Beaufort seas, and the NPR-A.