Doug Tempel
Ph.D. Candidate , University of Minnesota
Education
M.S. Wildlife Conservation - University of Minnesota, 2002
B.S.Chemical Engineering - University of Notre Dame, 1987
Research Interests
I am the Project Leader for Dr. Gutiérrez's two current California spotted owl studies: the Eldorado Demography Study and the Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project. In addition to these duties, I enrolled in the University of Minnesota's PhD program in the fall of 2007, to seek a degree in Natural Resources Science and Management with an emphasis on Wildlife Ecology and Management. For my dissertation research, I will examine the potential effects of U.S. Forest Service fuel reduction treatments and wildfire events on California spotted owl habitat using a two-step process. In the first step, I will simulate the effects of several predetermined management / wildfire scenarios on spotted owl habitat using fire and vegetation modeling software available in ArcFuels. In the second step, I will use the projected habitat conditions from step one to estimate the impacts of each management / wildfire scenario on key spotted owl demographic parameters (lambda, annual survival), by using Program MARK and the long-term data set from the Eldorado Demography Study.
Publications
Tempel, D. J. and R. J. Gutiérrez. 2004. Factors related to fecal corticosterone levels in California spotted owls: implications for assessing chronic stress. Conservation Biology 18(2): 538-547.
Tempel, D. J. and R. J. Gutiérrez. 2003. Fecal corticosterone levels in California spotted owls exposed to low-intensity chainsaw sound. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31(3): 698-702.
Tempel, D. J., W. D. Tietje, and D. E. Winslow. 2006. Vegetation and small vertebrates of oak woodlands at low and high risk for sudden oak death in San Luis Obispo County, California. Pages 211-232 in “Proceedings of the sudden oak death second science symposium: the state of our knowledge.” PSW-GTR-196, U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station.
Tempel, D. J., A. B. Cilimburg, and V. Wright. 2004. The status and management of exotic and invasive species in National Wildlife Refuge wilderness areas. Natural Areas Journal 24: 300-306.
Contact
Mailing Address:
University of Minnesota
Dept. of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
200 Hodson Hall
St. Paul, MN 55108
Office Address:
University of Minnesota
Dept. of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
174 McNeal Hall
Office Phone: 612-624-7709
E-mail: temp0059@umn.edu