Forest Resources Faculty
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Wildlife Science Undergraduate program advisor
I serve as an advisor for undergraduate students in the Environmental Science
and Resource Management (wildlife pathway) program. I help them with course
selection and career advice.
College of Forest Resources
I am an active participant in several College and academic division-level committees.
Some of these deal with governance while others deal with academic matters.
Wildlife Society Student Chapter
I serve as the faculty advisor to the Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society
(TWS), a professional society of wildlife biologists and managers. TWS holds
a meeting twice a month when students get together to discuss academic matters,
technical aspects of wildlife biology, plan activities, and listen to invited
speakers. TWS often has field trips to wildlife areas and also assists graduate
students in their research.
Wildlife Science Program Coordinator
I am the over-all Coordinator for both the undergraduate and graduate programs
and faculty in Wildlife Science. One of the primary responsibilities of this
position is to represent these groups in various College or Universtiy committees
and meetings.
Chair, Ecosystem Science Division
From January 2001 to January 2004, I served as Chair of one of the two College's academic divisions. The division has 14 tenure-track faculty and 14 research faculty. There is a wide range of academic disciplines represented in the division.
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I co-teach this course with Steve West and Jim Agee. The focus of the course is to provide students with a sound introduction to the methods of capturing and surveying wildlife as well as an assessent of wildlife habitat.
The good old days in western Montana.
I am interested in many areas of avian ecology and conservation. These include:
However, the majority of my research has been in two areas: (1)seabird ecology and conservation and (2)the basic ecology of forest birds and their response to forest management. We now have a good understanding of the basic nature of bird communities in most natural and managed coniferous forest landscapes but we need to better understand some individual species responses to environmental gradients and to forest management. Future research will be directed in these areas.
REPORTS ON CURRENT PROJECTS
Responses of Forest Wildlife to Modified Habitats
PREVIOUS RESEARCH
Nearly all the funding we generate in the Wildlife Science Group is directed toward providing support for graduate students. Consequently, much of my own research is essentially cooperative efforts with graduate students. For many years I was active in seabird research in California, Washington and Alaska. In recent years, I have concentrated on forest bird ecology. I am in the process of preparing manuscripts from the results of two long-term research projects. One concerns bird communities in intensively-managed Douglas-fir forests and the other is on oak woodlands in south-central Washington. I am also concluding an extensive assessment of the common murre which includes a review of its natural history, trends in populations, threats to populations and conservation strategies. This is a study funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and involves several other professionals as co-authors.
Since 1972, I have obtained $1,494,183 in research funding. The specific sources include the following:
| Public Agencies | |
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| U.S. Forest Service | $671,104 |
| U.S. Forest Service/U.S. Army | 203,118 |
| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | 250,361 |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | 174,499 |
| Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife | 106,300 |
| Washington Dept. of Natural Resources | 100,000 |
| National Park Service | 86,935 |
| City of Seattle, Water Dept. | 32,734 |
| City of Seattle, Parks and Recreation | 12,427 |
| National Science Foundation | 7,500 |
| TOTAL | $1,646,978 |
| Private Organizations | |
| Plum Creek Timber Company | 138,771 |
| Welder Wildlife Foundation | 10,000 |
| National Wildlife Federation | 8,000 |
| National Audubon Society | 1,500 |
| TOTAL | $158,271 |
| GRAND TOTAL | $1,805,249 |
Click personal publications for a list of my publications by subject area. Research for contracting agencies is often included in a report for that agency that may or may not be published. Click contract publications for a list of contract publications by subject area. For a list of graduate student dissertations and theses by subject area click student dissertations and theses.
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My personal research currently deals with a continuation of studies of birds in oak woodlands, evaluating the effects of new silvicultural treatments on birds (U.S. Forest Service DEMO project) and the restoration of sage grouse to areas of eastern Washington where it has been extirpated. I have obtained funding for a study on winter birds of intensively-managed Douglas-fir forests.
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I am currently involved in two major projects. The first
one is a U.S. Forest Service funded study called "Demonstration of Ecosystem
Management Options"(DEMO). This study is an experimental one which attempts
to assess the response of vertebrates and plants to different levels of canopy
removal. We have completed two years of pre-harvest bird sampling on 24 sites
using a combination of point counts and spot-mapping. We will now begin the
post-harvest sampling phase. We have just completed a study of the response
of birds to variable-density thinning at Ft. Lewis, Washington.
CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
1.Relationships among insects, birds and dead or dying trees in green tree retention sites. Maria Mayrhofer (M.S.).
2. Conservation of the Juan Fernández firecrown (Sephanoides fernandensis): Characterization of critical nesting habitat. (Erin Hagen) (M.S.).
3. Lead poisoning in wintering trumpeter swans in western Washington. (Mike Smith) (M.S.)
Dr. David A. Manuwal
College of Forest Resources
University of Washington
Box 352100
Seattle, Washington 98195-2100
Telephone: (206) 543-1585; FAX: (206) 685-0790
Email:auklet@u.washington.edu
Revised June 1, 2005