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Projects for Wildlife Podcast
by Alicia Amerson
Are you a wildlife project leader or want to be one? Projects for Wildlife is a podcast dedicated to sharing stories from wildlife conservation project leaders who are protecting wildlife and finding new ways to benefit both wildlife and humans. Alicia Amerson hosts interviews with project leaders from around the world about their struggles and triumphs in wildlife conservation. She dives into solo episodes sharing lessons learned from 17 years of environmental project management experience. These stories will lead you to think big, take action, and create your own project for wildlife. Now, let's go stand up for what we stand on! http://www.projectsforwildlife.com
Episodes
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Episode 077 - The Triple Constraint and Project Manager Training
Show notes for this episode: www.projectsforwildlife.com/episode077 WHERE TO FIND US: www.projectsforwildlife.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/projectsforwildlife Instagram: www.instagram.com/projectsforwildlife In The Field: www.projectsforwildlife.com/inthefield SPEAK UP FOR BLUE network:...
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Episode 076 - Dawn Wilson talks about Alaskan Bears and the pebble mine proposal and how photographs can save the bears
Show notes for this episode: www.projectsforwildlife.com/episode076 Connect with Dawn: http://www.nanpa.org/ facebook.com/dawnwilsonphotography instagram.com/dawnwilsonphoto twitter.com/dawnwilsonphoto flickr.com/photos/dawnwilsonphotography WHERE TO FIND US: www.projectsforwildlife.com Facebook:...
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Episode 075 - Stephanie Boyles Griffin researches ways to help humans live with wildlife in urban areas
Show notes for this episode: www.projectsforwildlife.com/episode075 WHERE TO FIND US: www.projectsforwildlife.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/projectsforwildlife Instagram: www.instagram.com/projectsforwildlife SPEAK UP FOR BLUE network:...
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Episode 074 - Lynette Plenderleith shares her love for frogs and saving their habitat
Show notes for this episode: www.projectsforwildlife.com/episode074 WHERE TO FIND US: www.projectsforwildlife.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/projectsforwildlife Instagram: www.instagram.com/projectsforwildlife In The Field: www.projectsforwildlife.com/inthefield SPEAK UP FOR BLUE network:...
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Episode 073 - 5 Steps to Get Things Done (GTD) & 3 Bonus Apps
Today's episode is all about Getting Things Done. I am excited to share this methodology with you and a few apps that will help your productivity success in an stress-free way! Before I started to use GTD my to-do list consists of one-word items like a grocery store list, dog food, post office,...
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Episode 072 - Kristin Combs talks about the impacts humans have on wildlife in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem
Kristin Combs is the the executive director of Wyoming Wildlife Advocates and organization that has the mission to inform, educate, empower communities to preserve our wild legacy, protect our shared wildlife and modernize wildlife management across the state of Wyoming. Kristin has nine years of...
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Episode 071 - Josh Asel shares why photography connects him to nature and storytelling
Josh Asel a self made wildlife conservationist and photojournalist. He recently launched Art for Earth, his feature website where he shares conservation stories and his images. www.joshasel.com https://www.instagram.com/josh.asel/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-asel-3389025a/...
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Episode 070 - Dr. Kristen Weiss and Buttercup the Oceanpup share how project commitment leads to impact
Dr. Kristin Weiss and Buttercup the Oceanpup. Dr. Kristen Weiss is currently Communications Coordinator for the Long Term Ecological Research network. Previously, she was an early career fellow in Science Communication at the Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, and before that a...
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Episode 069 - Dr. Chris Parsons talks shop on ecotourism, conservation projects, and podcasts
Dr. Chris Parsons is one of the primary podcast hosts in the Speak Up For Blue network. I met Chris as I trotted along through a sustainable whale-watching research project at Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Dr. Chris Parsons has been involved in whale and dolphin research for over two...
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Episode 068 - Kathi George leads whale entanglement solutions and volunteers in California
Kathi George is the Global Response Project Manager for the Marine Mammal Center located in Sausalito, CA. She has over 15 years of experience with marine mammal entanglements, specializing in entangled whale response. She's been on several large whale entanglement cases and trained many…
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Episode 067 - Paul Bunker shares how training dogs is effective for conservation in Texas
Paul Bunker who trains dogs for conservation detection work. He started a new business called Chiron K-9 after his career as a military veteran dog trainer. Today we are going to talk about the horned lizard in Texas and his work with detective dogs and researchers. https://www.chiron-k9.com/…
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Episode 066 - Angela Grimes shares Born Free's rescue of five monkeys from a roadside zoo
Angela Grimes is the Chief Executive Officer of Born Free USA. In 2002, Born Free USA was launched in the United States to bring Born Free's vision to the American public. The vision is for a co-existent future where humans no longer exploit wild animals. Born Free also operates the largest…
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Episode 065 - Dan Flores makes us fall in love with coyotes through a beautifully written biography
Dan Flores is the author of 10 books on western US history include the New York Times Best seller Coyote America, he is A B. Hammond Professor Emeritus at the University of Montana and lives in my home state of New Mexico. About 45 minutes south of my home town in Santa Fe. Coyote America, if you...
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Episode 064 - Dr. Stan Gerht shares his urban coyote research from the past 20 years
Dr. Stanley D. Gehrt is the Principal Investigator of the Cook County Coyote Project, having initiated the study in 2000. As Chair of the Center for Wildlife Research at the Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation, he directs a variety of research projects both at the Foundation and around the country.…
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Episode 063 - Celina Chien begins her conservation career using photography to share biology stories
Conservationist and Photographer, Celina Chien, is giving a voice to wildlife in the age of the Anthropocene. "I stumbled across a few other photographers and I realized that I've never even considered it before as a medium of \ communicating conservation and communicating science but I found…
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Episode 062 - Communicate Like A Conservation Project Manager
One of the most powerful skills to master as a conservation project manager is communication, put simply know when it is time to talk, and not talk just for the sake of talking. We've all been to one of these meetings where someone just keeps talking about something that was covered already....
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Episode 061 - Amy Gulick connects wild salmon to the rest of the world through beautiful stories
Gulick's recent work focuses on the Tongass National Forest of Alaska. The Tongass contains one-third of the world's remaining old-growth coastal temperate rainforests, and the largest reserves of old-growth forests left in the United States. Her book, "Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska's…
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Episode 060- Jaymi Heimbuch uses project management for wildlife conservation storytelling
Today on the podcast is Jaymi Heimbuch! She has two goals the first is to Make a positive impact for conservation through photography and storytelling. And second is to Provide training and tools for fellow photographers seeking to do the same. She does this through a variety of wildlife projects...
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Episode 059 - Morgan Heim uses wildlife conservation storytelling to bring awareness for global issues
We met in Jackson Wyoming in Sept 2019. Morgan has a heart of gold and is 100% committed to telling stories that move people and connect them to wildlife, and even see them in a new perspective. If you have an inspiring conservation storyteller in your family, friend group or happen to be one…
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Episode 058- Katie Schuler creates films on pangolins - the most trafficked mammal in the world
Katie Schuler is a new friend I met at Jackson Wild and the International League of Conservation Photographers Wild Speak West in September 2019. I was completely surprised and inspired by Katie's commitment to work on the world's most trafficked mammal. She is an advocate for the planet's most...
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Episode 057 - Suzie Marlow trains dogs for wildlife conservation research
Suzie Marlow is a bounder and research scientist for the Rogue Dog Detection org. She has the coolest job in the world - in my opinion! She gets to take her dog into the field and find wildlife. I am excited to share this episode today! In 2019 I met another bounder Jennifer Hartman at the…
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Episode 056 - How to become a conservation project manager
This episode is dedicated to helping you find out where you are at in the world of conservation project management and what steps you need to take to move forward in developing skills and becoming a certified project manager. Learning the basic skills will improve your project efficiency, and…
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Episode 055 - Leif Cocks protects orangutan populations around the world
Leif's mission is to spread awareness about the desperate plight of Critically Endangered orangutans and show people exactly how they can join us to secure orangutan survival in their natural habitat. In this episode we dig deep into the issues surrounding the orangutans and how Leif began his...
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Episode 054 - Dr. Shermin de Silva protects wild asian elephants in Sri Lanka
Dr. Shermin de Silva - we met at her fundraiser she hosted for trunks and leaves, an organization she founded to raise awareness for asian elephants. I was fascinated with her work with a subset of asian elephants and the communities that surround their habitat. She is a behavioral ecologist with...
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Episode 053 - How and why to hire a project manager
Are you excited to start a new decade and new year? 2020 is going to be amazing for so many reasons. To start of the new year and Season 2 I wanted to share a little bit about conservation project management, what is this nondescript role, why do you need a conservation project manager, and how…
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Episode 052 - The Best of 2019 & The Lessons Learned
This week is the last official episode of 2019 and Season 1. As a listener you know by now that all projects have a beginning and an end. Season 1 is finishing one giant project before we set off on Season 2. Like all good project managers, we need to finalize the first season with a proper...
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Episode 051 - Rachel Henry saves the California Tiger Salamanders through collaborations with landowners
Rachel Henry she is a U.S. fish and wildlife biologist. One of her primary roles is working with private landowners to achieve California tiger salamander recovery in Santa Barbara County. The Santa Barbara County distinct population segment of the California tiger salamander is a federally...
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Episode 050 - Dr. Liz McHuron studies fur seals and the pollock fish they eat
Dr. Elizabeth McHuron works with pinnipeds, including seals and sea lions, for the past 10 years. She has a PhD from University of California Santa Cruz where she researched California Sea Lions energetics and foraging behavior. Her research interests lies in helping make conservation management...
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Episode 049 - Dr. Nathan Walworth finds solutions & partnerships within the OceansSOS organization he co-founded
Dr. Nathan Walworth is an entrepreneurial scientist - who is on a mission to take action for our planet. He is co-founding various business and working with global partnerships to create innovative spaces for building solutions to some of our biggest environmental problems. Today we talk about…
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Episode 048 - Clay Bolt fascinates the world by highlighting the smallest animals
Clay Bolt is a Natural History and Conservation Photographer specializing in macro and close-up photography with an emphasis on invertebrates, reptiles and amphibians. His images and projects have been featured by organizations and publications such as National Geographic, The Nature Conservancy,...
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Episode 047 - Sandesh Kadur shares how he uses video and photography storytelling to protect India's wildlife and wild spaces
National Geographic Explorer Sandesh Kadur is a Wildlife Film Maker and Conservation Photographer known for his contributions to Planet Earth II. Sandesh's films have been shown on television networks including National Geographic Channel, BBC, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet. Sandesh is a...
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Episode 046 - Dr. Jennifer Brandon studies impacts of microplastics and microfibers
Dr. Jennifer Brandon has a PhD in Biological Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Through her research in microplastic pollution, she became passionate about teaching the world that our daily choices have lasting impacts. We talk about new technology to reduce microfiber and…
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Episode 045 - Doug Gimesy shares how conservation photojournalism shapes our view on living with wildlife in urban cityscapes
Doug is a professional conservation, wildlife and animal welfare photojournalist, whose clients include National Geographic Creative, BBC Wildlife, Australian Geographic, The New York Times, and the Australian Conservation Foundation. He initially trained as a zoologist, and later completed a...
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Episode 044 - Stephanie Arne shares how South African penguins are using man-made nests to increase their population
In this episode Stephanie Arne shares how manmade penguin nests are helping South African Penguins stay cool in the hot sun and protect their eggs and young from predators. Guano on the island where they nest was mined by man. This left the penguins without any place to hide from the sun. Even…
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Episode 043 - Creating 2020 Wildlife Conservation Project Goals
Goal setting sounds horrifying to some and fun to others. As a project manager, or if you strive to be one, you know that goals help you stay focused and move in the direction you want to go. Setting goals is taking control of your life - kinda. I say kinda because we know all things change and...
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Episode 042 - 10 tips to strategically engage stakeholders
One of my favorite topics in project management is stakeholder engagement. I love working with different stakeholders and finding ways to work together. There are 10 steps to engaging stakeholders effectively and a few checklist items that will help you streamline your engagement strategies. A...
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Episode 041 - Dr. Lora Kim Joyner protects parrots in Honduras and beyond
Dr LoraKim Joyner is a wildlife veterinarian with 30 years working with avian species. She helps lead the efforts to protect the Scarlet Macaw Parrot in Honduras. Today we are going to talk about the current human-wildlife conflicts, poaching, and international trafficking. We are also going to...
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Episode 040 - Dr. Nathan Robinson pulls the most famous straw in the world out of a sea turtle nose
Dr. Nathan Robinson is a sea turtle researcher and storyteller. He connects people to the ocean and it's wildlife through adventure and stories. He was the researcher who pulled the straw from the sea turtle's nose and its created a global ban on straws. Somewhere in the depths of the sea is the...
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Episode 039 - Case Study - Phase 5 Closure - Elephants and Bees
This is the fifth and final episode in a project management series I set up to help leaders like you with the terminology and applications of project management for conservation research and projects. Project management is a lot like the scientific process is similar to… instead of having a...
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Episode 038 - Case Study - Phase 4 Monitor and Control - Grizzly Bear Project
This episode is dedicated to the implementation phase of the project management lifecycle. There are four phases to the lifecycle, initiation, planning, implementing, and closure. In the implementation phase it can be broken down into two sections 1. Execution. 2. Monitoring. For this episode I…
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Episode 037 - Mitch Silverstein from Surfrider San Diego Chapter Shares How He Found His Tribe
Mitch Silverstein is the Chapter Manager for the Surfrider Foundation San Diego Chapter. Mitch is a native Californian with a love for all things ocean, wave & beach-related. As an activist, he strives to raise awareness of how our everyday choices affect the ocean & planet, and advocates for...
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Episode 036 - Case Study: Project Lifecycle Phase 3 - Project Execution - A Wolf Project
"Project management", then, is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements. It has always been practiced informally, but began to emerge as a distinct profession in the mid-20th century. Project management processes fall into...
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Episode 035 - Dr. Manuel Varela talks about ecological benefits and impacts to microbes and their relationship to wildlife
Dr. Manuel Varela is a microbiology professor at Eastern New Mexico University located in the small ranch town of Portales, NM. He is the co-author of two books "The inventions and discoveries of the World Most famous scientists and "enter the world of microbiology: interviews of the world's most...
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Episode 034 - Case Study: Key Factors that Drive Human-Wildlife Conflict
One of the reasons I launched the Projects for Wildlife podcast was specifically to discuss human-wildlife conflict, what it is, why it exists, and how we can coexist with wildlife. And most importantly how do we set up projects that will create benefits for humans and wildlife. With climate...
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Episode 033 - CritterFacts launches after Cara Loeb plays a joke on William Colaw
William Colaw and Cara Loeb the Founders Critter Facts a business that started as an app and is growing. Critter facts mission is to spread knowledge, create curiosity, inspire appreciation, and foster engagement for wildlife and our environment. They do this by promoting wildlife welfare and...
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Episode 032 - Joe Pietersen takes strategies from rugby and applies it to rhino conservation
Joe Pietersen is a famous South African rugby player that is passionate about connecting people with rhino and painted dog conservation. He started Nkombe Rhino with partners to help rhinos and painted dogs, but also to give people a sustainable eco-tourism experience in the field. Through...
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Episode 031 - Dr. Emily Young is leading environmental leadership programs in San Diego
Dr. Emily Young is the executive director of The Nonprofit Institute. She has spent more than 20 years in various positions in philanthropy, as well as higher education. Prior to the University of San Diego, she served as vice president of community impact at The San Diego Foundation, where she…
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Episode 030 - Dr. Greg Rouse finds new species of marine invertebrates in the depths of the sea
Dr. Greg Rouse is a professor of marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His lab focuses on Animal phylogeny, biodiversity and taxonomy, particularly annelids and echinoderms. He also studies the evolution of life history strategies in marine animals and the evolution of whalefall,...
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Episode 029 Case Study: Human-Lion Conflict (Phase 2 Planning)
This episode is about the Planning phase of project management. I look at the lifecycle phase of project management to tackle the human-lion conflict issue. Recommendations inside of research stay inside the virtual space most of the time - we need to use these solutions to protect wildlife. In…
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Episode 028 - Tommy Hough a local San Diego radio host starts a political based environmental club to help wildlife and tackle climate change issues
Tommy built a community of listeners and neighbors around shared experiences, current events, environmental matters, San Diego craft beers, favorite songs and movies, travel, traffic jams, family, and making ends meet. Since then, Tommy was able to utilize his connections with so many of his…
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Are you a wildlife project leader or want to be one? Projects for Wildlife is a podcast dedicated to sharing stories from wildlife conservation project leaders who are protecting wildlife and finding new ways to benefit both wildlife and humans. Alicia Amerson hosts interviews with project leaders from around the world about their struggles and triumphs in wildlife conservation. She dives into solo episodes sharing lessons learned from 17 years of environmental project management experience. These stories will lead you to think big, take action, and create your own project for wildlife. Now, let's go stand up for what we stand on! http://www.projectsforwildlife.com
HOSTED BY
Alicia Amerson
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