In the words of Dale Booth, current Utah WS 

 employee, ". . . [I]t's been a good job. It's been 

 my life, you know, I mean, that's what I've enjoyed. 

 After working 38 and a half years, if I could be young 

 again, I'd do the very same thing." 



Media Relations— In 2007, NWRC and APHIS Leg- 

 islative and Public Affairs staff responded to roughly 

 89 media and community requests for information 

 regarding WS research activities. NWRC also hosted 

 three reporters at its headquarters office in Fort Col- 

 lins. Visits included tours of the facilities and inter- 

 views with experts on the topics of wildlife contracep- 

 tives, invasive species, and product registration. 



Seminars 



The NWRC seminar program offers a valuable 

 forum for the exchange of ideas among Center staff, 

 field station personnel, visiting scientists, and WS 

 Operations staff. During 2007, NWRC hosted about 

 17 seminars, including presentations by speakers 

 from various universities and foreign wildlife 

 organizations, NWRC headquarters and field staff, 

 and potential candidates for employment. Topics 

 included economic assessments, bear-human 

 conflicts, wildlife toxicology, and wildlife diseases. 

 The following table lists the 2007 presentations. 



Presentations by NWRC scientists and visitors during 2007 



Speaker 



Affiliation 



Title 



Camilla Myers 



Wildlife Research, CSiRO 

 Publishing Co. 



Wildlife Research: New Directions and Opportunities for 

 Publication 



Teresa Howes, 

 Gail Keirn 



APHIS Legislative and Public 

 Affairs 



Standing on Top of the World: Lessons Learned From an 

 Interagency Media Event in Barrow, AK 



Charles R. Brown 



University of Tulsa 



Ecology of Buggy Creek Virus, an Arbovirus in the Western Equine En- 

 cephalomyelitis Virus Complex, in Western Nebraska 



Current Research Topics at the North Dakota Field Station and Starling 

 Research in Urban Environments 



George Linz, 

 Jeff Homan 



NWRC, Bismarck, ND 



Bob Kling 



CSU 



Economic Assessment of Canada Goose Management Efforts in the 

 Puget Sound Area 



John Johnston 



NWRC, Fort Collins 



NWRC Sabbatical Seminar: PBPK Modeling and Piedmont Blues 



Darlene Blaney, 

 Scott Peterson, 

 Mike Moxcey 



WS Information 

 Technology Support Center 



Using SQL Builder To Access MIS Data 



Stewart Brack 



NWRC, Fort Collins 



The Emergence of Bear-Human Conflict: Understanding the Bear Ne- 

 cessities and Development of Carrots and Sticks 



Jeff Root 



NWRC, Fort Collins 



Sabbatical Seminar: A Search for Rodent-Borne Viruses in East Africa 



Gary Witmer, 

 Rick Engeman 



NWRC, Fort Collins 



Big Effort To Rid Florida of Big Rats Before They Become a Big Problem 



Geoffrey Wahungu 



Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya 



The Status of Human-Wildlife Conflict in Kenya 



Erik Osnas 



University of Wisconsin- 

 Madison 



Spatial Epidemiology of Chronic Wasting Disease in Wisconsin 



Seth Britch 



USDA Agricultural Research 

 Service 



Rift Valley Fever Virus, a Potential Emerging Threat to Wildlife, Live- 

 stock, and Humans in the U.S. -A Review of Issues and 

 Concerns, and a GIS Early-Warning System for RVF Vectors 



John Shivik 



NWRC, Logan, UT 



Logan, UT Field Station Update, 2007 



Susan Shriner 



NWRC, Fort Collins 



An Epidemiological Network Model for Al in Backyard Poultry 

 in Colorado 



Barnett Rattner 



U.S. Geological Survey 



Wildlife Toxicology Studies at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center 



Susan Wilzer, 

 Tanya Tanner 



National Agricultural 

 Library 



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