RESEARCH
I have spent most of my career working on demographic studies of spotted owls, and therefore have been a witness to the various levels of the barred owl invasion. This included working when barred owls were well established on the Olympic Peninsula in WA, just beginning to arrive in the Sierra’s, and in Northern California where for the last twelve years I have documented the steady decline of spotted owls and the consistent rise in barred owls. I am interested in researching conservation solutions and am currently working as part of a study to determine if barred owl removal can create refugia for the remaining northern spotted owls in N. California.
EDUCATION
Master of Fish, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology; Colorado State University 2021
BS Fisheries & Wildlife; Utah State University 1999
Franklin, A. B., P. C. Carlson, A. Rex, J. T. Rockweit, D. Garza, E. Culhane, S. F. Volker, R. J. Dusek, V. I. Shearn-Bochsler, M. W Gabriel, and K. E. Horak. 2018. Grass is not always greener: rodenticide exposure of a threatened species near marijuana growing operations. 2018. BioMed Central Research Notes 11(94).
Seamans, M. E., J. Corcoran, and A. Rex. Southernmost record of a spotted owl-barred owl hybrid in the Sierra Nevada. 2004. Western Birds 35(3).