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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/david-ausband
   timestamp: '2024-01-30T09:54:25.342565'
   status_code: 200
 profile:
   name: David Ausband, PhD
   name_qualifier: null
   titles:
   - Research Wildlife Biologist
   organizations:
   - !!python/tuple
     - Cooperative Research Units
     - https://www.usgs.gov/programs/cooperative-research-units
   email: dausband@usgs.gov
   orcid: 0000-0001-9204-9837
   intro_statements:
   - Assistant Unit Leader - Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
   expertise_terms:
   - wildlife management
   - genetics
   - anthropogenic impacts
   professional_experience:
   - Assistant Unit Leader, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, 2018-
   education:
   - PhD, University of Montana, 2012
   - MS, University of Montana, 2003
   - BS, University of Montana, 1999
   affiliations: []
   honors: []
   abstracts: []
   personal_statement: Dr. Ausband received his Msc and PhD from the University of
     Montana and was a Senior Wildlife Research Biologist for the Idaho Department
     of Fish and Game before joining the Idaho Unit in 2018. He began his research
     career studying snowshoe hares and carnivore reintroductions such as those for
     swift foxes and gray wolves in the western U.S. Currently, his research program
     focuses largely on carnivore ecology, management, and conservation. Additionally,
     when sought out by collaborators, he conducts research on various topics of
     pressing management needs. He collaborates widely with state, federal, and tribal
     wildlife agencies on research that provides both applied and basic inferences.
     Additionally, he provides research leadership by maintaining a long-term research
     program on gray wolves whose questions encompass the behavioral ecology of cooperative
     breeders, harvest management, population monitoring, and population ecology.
     Dr. Ausband teaches graduate courses in Advanced Fish and Wildlife Management
     and Science Communication.