A Neonate’s World

The new world that fawns enter is a difficult place to survive, and many fawns are eaten by predators during their first few weeks of life. This is a quick video for a broad audience explaining our research with fawns and what questions we hope to answer.
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Research News:

It’s hard to believe, but fieldwork for the deer project is almost done. We’re moving ahead with analysis now, which is exciting- what will we learn from all of our hard-earned data?

As we begin to piece together the story about deer, climate, habitat, and predation hidden in our huge data set, we will be sharing our results with colleagues and the public. Below I’ve listed some of the professional meetings where you can find our work. If you’d like to talk about this work, either at one of these conferences or otherwise, please get in touch

March 2013: Midnight Sun Science Symposium, Fairbanks, AK

March 2013: The Wildlife Society Alaska Chapter Annual Meeting, Fairbanks, AK

May 2013: Western States and Provinces Deer and Elk Workshop, Missoula, MT

June 2013: Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Philadelphia, PA

July 2013: International Conference for Conservation Biology, Baltimore, MD

October 2013: The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI

More About Our Research:

THE DEER PROJECT focuses on the effects of changing habitat and climate on Sitka black-tailed deer in Southeast Alaska by examining survival and reproduction, the key components of animal fitness and important drivers of population dynamics.
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