Dawn Tanner

Adjunct Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Education

Ph.D. in Conservation Biology 
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2010 
Dissertation: Road to the Future: Strategies for Wildlife Crossings and Youth Empowerment to Improve Wildlife Habitat in Roaded Landscapes
Advisor: Dr. Susan Galatowitsch

M.S. in Conservation Biology
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2005
Minor: Geographic Information Systems
Thesis: The Impact of Traffic Fatalities on Lava Lizards, Microlophus albemarlensis, on Santa Cruz, Galápagos
Advisor: Dr. James Perry

International Coursework
Indonesian Language, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Summer 2006

Areas of Interest

Conservation education, tropical habitat conservation

Teaching

SFS - May Session - 2016 & 2018
Borneo course

Research

Conservation of tropical forest environments, especially focused on charismatic like the clouded leopard (Neofelis dardi), and use of remote cameras for wildlife monitoring and education.

Select Publications

Tanner, D. and J. Ernst. 2013. Who goes there? Linking remote cameras and schoolyard science to empower action. The Journal of Experiential Education. 36: 106-122

Tanner, D. and P. Zimmerman. 2012. Optimal attractants to increase visits by clouded leopards (Neofelis spp) to remote-camera sets. The Wildlife Society Bulletin. 36: 594-599

Tanner, D. 2010. 5th graders’ knowledge, attitudes and behavior toward habitat loss and landscape fragmentation. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. 15: 418-432

Tanner, D. 2008. Matrix to mosaic: Habitat fragmentation from 1982-1999 in
Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Borneo Research Bulletin. 39: 255-268

Tanner, D. and J. Perry. 2007. Road effects on abundance and fitness of Galápagos lava lizards (Microlophus albemarlensis). Journal of Environmental Management. 85: 270-278