Using innovative research, education and public outreach to address human impacts on threatened and endangered species around the world.
Core Services Offered
We offer a comprehensive system to study complex issues:
- Our scent detection dog program performs field work detecting scat from a large variety of species, invasive plant species, and environmental toxins.
- From the collected scat our laboratory offers species ID, individual ID, sex ID, and hormone analysis.
- We work with a number of countries to identify the location of origin for seized ivory utilizing an elephant dung reference map we created. We are accurate within 300km.
USGS, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects, CDFW, USFW, Wildlife Conservation Network, Dawkins Charitable Trust, Johnson Family Foundation, City of Seattle, Washington State, U.S. State Department
Chair, Department of Biology
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