for Wildlife Damage Management" project 

 within NWRC's Invasive Species and Technology 

 Development Research Program. 



NWRC and the Monell Chemical Senses Center 

 have a long history of working together, and 

 Kimball's move allows NWRC to capitalize on the 

 chemosensory expertise available at Monell. There 

 are a number of potential research areas that 

 could be investigated through this collaboration, 

 including chemosensory evaluation of baits for 

 vaccine delivery, tools to reduce urban deer 

 browsing, evaluation of attractants, repellents, 

 physiological responses to avoidance stimuli, and 

 chemosensory evaluation of baits for invasive 

 species eradication. 



Retirements 



Jean Bourassa retired from NWRC in August 

 2007, after 34 years with the Center and its 

 predecessor organization, the Denver Wildlife 

 Research Center. He worked in the electronics 

 lab designing and producing electronic 

 instrumentation for wildlife research, including 

 telemetry designs and attachment techniques. In 

 1996, upon relocation to Fort Collins, he added 

 duties working on GIS data. 



Since John Cummings started working for WS 

 in 1974, in his role as a Supervisory Research 

 Wildlife Biologist, he has been instrumental 

 in NWRC's efforts to develop new tools and 

 techniques for reducing blackbird damage to 

 rice and other crops. Mr. Cummings worked on 

 methyl anthranilate as a goose repellant for turf; 

 aerial mass-marking of blackbirds in rice fields to 

 determine movements and distribution in southern 

 rice-growing areas; a "take" model to estimate 

 take of blackbirds with DRC-1339 on staging 

 areas; Aqua-blok™ as a covering material for 

 contaminants at Eagle River Flats in Alaska; and 

 capture techniques such as mini-cannons and 

 nets, the air cannon, the groove-cock, and the 

 night-hawker to capture birds. 



John Cummings. 



Since Marge Goodall joined NWRC in 1989, she 

 has been the supervisor of the Analytical Services 

 group (part of the Invasive Species and Technology 

 Development Research Program). She persevered 

 through the chemistry lab remodelling project at 

 the Denver Wildlife Research Center and the move 

 from Denver to two different Fort Collins locations. 

 Ms. Goodall retired in April 2007. 



Paige Groninger began work in the fiscal office 

 of the Denver Wildlife Research Center in 1964. 

 She then obtained her degree in math and 

 computer science under an upward mobility 

 program and began working on a new career 

 path as a computer programmer. She has helped 

 numerous NWRC scientists through her expertise 

 in SAS databases and programming. She retired 

 in March 2007. 



54 Valuing and Investing in People 



