Sheila Whitmore

Assistant Project Leader. El Dorado Project

Education

M.S. Biology - California State University - Chico, in progress

B.S.Biology - University of Nebraska, 1996

Research Interests

I am currently the assistant project leader on the Sierra Nevada Adaptive Management Project (SNAMP) which studies how fuel reduction treatments effect spotted owl occupancy status and reproductive rates

Previously, I helped facilitate the canopy reduction experimental study on the Eldorado and Tahoe National Forests in the Sierra Nevada.  We used radio telemetry methods to record the nighttime foraging locations of the owls.  We were interested in the response of the owls to timber harvests, using the pre and post harvest location data.

While working as a research tech on the California spotted owl demography project in the Lassen study area, I studied juvenile roosting characteristics for my Master’s thesis project. My thesis specifically focuses on within-stand habitat selection by juvenile owls during the post-fledgling dependency period.

In general, my research interests include habitat and species conservation and management. 

 

Contact

Office Address:
University of Minnesota
Dept. of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology
200 Hodson Hall
St. Paul, MN 55108

E-mail: whitm080@umn.edu