June is a busy month for WTI’s road ecologists; Mat Bell, Dr. Marcel Huijser, and Rob Ament will be giving poster presentations and serving expert panelists both nationally and abroad. If you are attending the 2023 International Conference on Ecology & Transportation (ICOET) or BISON’s International Seminar: Transport Infrastructure and Biodiversity at a nexus of challenges, please join them at the events below.
International Conference on Ecology & Transportation (ICOET)
Burlington, Vermont
June 4 – 8, 2023
Poster Reception
4:30 P.M. – 6:30 P.M., June 6
Research Engineer Matthew Bell will present the poster “Roadkill Observation and Data System (ROaDS) Deployment for Federal Lands,” which outlines the ROaDS development and deployment process. ROaDS will be accessible by Federal employees on a national level and across Federal Land Management Areas.
Senior Research Ecologist Marcel Huijser, Ph.D., will present the poster “Effective Jump-Outs for White-Tailed Deer and Mule Deer,” which outlines the testing of modified jump-outs for both species along US Hwy 93 North in Montana.
Technical Session 27: Diving in to the First Pooled Fund Study for Transportation Ecology
10:45 A.M. EST, June 8
Together, Mat and Marcel will participate in a panel discussion on the Transportation Pooled-Fund Project TPF-5(358), administered by the Nevada Department of Transportation, which was a first-of-its-kind road ecology study. It sought to identify cost-effective solutions that integrate highway safety and mobility with wildlife conservation and habitat connectivity and includes the work of twenty-seven authors, fourteen separate research projects, a Best Practices manual, and a final report synthesizing all findings.
International Seminar: Transportation Infrastructure and Biodiversity at a nexus of challenges
Research and Innovation as drivers for transformative changes
Council of Europe: Av. de l’Europe, 67000 Strasbourg, France
June 7 – 11, 2023
International Panorama: Overview of infrastructure and biodiversity nexus of challenges
10:15 A.M. – 11:00 A.M., June 7
Rob Ament will be joining this international panel of experts as Senior Conservationist for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Center for Large Landscape Conservation. He is also co-chair of the IUCN Transport Working Group, which sits under the World Commission on Protected Areas’ Connectivity Conservation Specialist group.