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David Mech source-orcid: host: orcid.org path: 0000-0003-3944-7769 uri: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3944-7769 start-date: null url: null visibility: public last-modified-date: value: 1500064276627 path: /0000-0003-3944-7769/educations employments: affiliation-group: - external-ids: external-id: [] last-modified-date: value: 1500064402893 summaries: - employment-summary: created-date: value: 1500064402893 department-name: null display-index: '0' end-date: null external-ids: null last-modified-date: value: 1500064402893 organization: address: city: St. Paul country: US region: MN disambiguated-organization: null name: U.S. Geological Survey path: /0000-0003-3944-7769/employment/4270954 put-code: 4270954 role-title: Senior Research Scientist source: assertion-origin-client-id: null assertion-origin-name: null assertion-origin-orcid: null source-client-id: null source-name: value: L. David Mech source-orcid: host: orcid.org path: 0000-0003-3944-7769 uri: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3944-7769 start-date: day: null month: null year: value: '1999' url: null visibility: public - external-ids: external-id: [] last-modified-date: value: 1500315972925 summaries: - employment-summary: created-date: value: 1500064666360 department-name: Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology display-index: '0' end-date: null external-ids: null last-modified-date: value: 1500315972925 organization: address: city: Minneapolis country: US region: MN disambiguated-organization: null name: University of Minnesota path: /0000-0003-3944-7769/employment/4270968 put-code: 4270968 role-title: Adjunct Professor (unpaid) source: assertion-origin-client-id: null assertion-origin-name: null assertion-origin-orcid: null source-client-id: null source-name: value: L. David Mech source-orcid: host: orcid.org path: 0000-0003-3944-7769 uri: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3944-7769 start-date: day: null month: null year: value: '1981' url: null visibility: public - external-ids: external-id: [] last-modified-date: value: 1500065021703 summaries: - employment-summary: created-date: value: 1500064593466 department-name: Ecology, Evolution and Behavoir display-index: '0' end-date: null external-ids: null last-modified-date: value: 1500065021703 organization: address: city: Minneapolis country: US region: MN disambiguated-organization: disambiguated-organization-identifier: '311816' disambiguation-source: RINGGOLD name: University of Minnesota System path: /0000-0003-3944-7769/employment/4270965 put-code: 4270965 role-title: Adjunct Professor (unpaid) source: assertion-origin-client-id: null assertion-origin-name: null assertion-origin-orcid: null source-client-id: null source-name: value: L. David Mech source-orcid: host: orcid.org path: 0000-0003-3944-7769 uri: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3944-7769 start-date: day: null month: null year: value: '1979' url: null visibility: public - external-ids: external-id: [] last-modified-date: value: 1500064530505 summaries: - employment-summary: created-date: value: 1500064530505 department-name: Division of Endangered Species Research/Biological Resources Division display-index: '0' end-date: day: null month: null year: value: '1999' external-ids: null last-modified-date: value: 1500064530505 organization: address: city: St. Paul country: US region: MN disambiguated-organization: null name: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service/U.S. Geological Survey path: /0000-0003-3944-7769/employment/4270961 put-code: 4270961 role-title: Wildlife Research Biologist source: assertion-origin-client-id: null assertion-origin-name: null assertion-origin-orcid: null source-client-id: null source-name: value: L. David Mech source-orcid: host: orcid.org path: 0000-0003-3944-7769 uri: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3944-7769 start-date: day: null month: null year: value: '1969' url: null visibility: public - external-ids: external-id: [] last-modified-date: value: 1500064763943 summaries: - employment-summary: created-date: value: 1500064763943 department-name: null display-index: '0' end-date: day: null month: null year: value: '1968' external-ids: null last-modified-date: value: 1500064763943 organization: address: city: Saint Paul country: US region: MN disambiguated-organization: disambiguated-organization-identifier: '7569' disambiguation-source: RINGGOLD name: Macalester College path: /0000-0003-3944-7769/employment/4270971 put-code: 4270971 role-title: Assistant Professor and Research Associate source: assertion-origin-client-id: null assertion-origin-name: null assertion-origin-orcid: null source-client-id: null source-name: value: L. David Mech source-orcid: host: orcid.org path: 0000-0003-3944-7769 uri: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3944-7769 start-date: day: null month: null year: value: '1966' url: null visibility: public - external-ids: external-id: [] last-modified-date: value: 1500064864633 summaries: - employment-summary: created-date: value: 1500064864633 department-name: null display-index: '0' end-date: day: null month: null year: value: '1966' external-ids: null last-modified-date: value: 1500064864633 organization: address: city: St. Paul country: US region: MN disambiguated-organization: null name: Unversity of Minnesota path: /0000-0003-3944-7769/employment/4270977 put-code: 4270977 role-title: Research Associate source: assertion-origin-client-id: null assertion-origin-name: null assertion-origin-orcid: null source-client-id: null source-name: value: L. David Mech source-orcid: host: orcid.org path: 0000-0003-3944-7769 uri: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3944-7769 start-date: day: null month: null year: value: '1963' url: null visibility: public - external-ids: external-id: [] last-modified-date: value: 1500064928275 summaries: - employment-summary: created-date: value: 1500064928275 department-name: null display-index: '0' end-date: day: null month: null year: value: '1962' external-ids: null last-modified-date: value: 1500064928275 organization: address: city: West Lafayette country: US region: IN disambiguated-organization: disambiguated-organization-identifier: '311308' disambiguation-source: RINGGOLD name: Purdue University path: /0000-0003-3944-7769/employment/4270981 put-code: 4270981 role-title: Research Assistant source: assertion-origin-client-id: null assertion-origin-name: null assertion-origin-orcid: null source-client-id: null source-name: value: L. David Mech source-orcid: host: orcid.org path: 0000-0003-3944-7769 uri: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3944-7769 start-date: day: null month: null year: value: '1958' url: null visibility: public last-modified-date: value: 1500315972925 path: /0000-0003-3944-7769/employments works: group: - external-ids: external-id: [] last-modified-date: value: 1500322852650 work-summary: - created-date: value: 1500063652604 display-index: '1' external-ids: external-id: [] journal-title: null last-modified-date: value: 1500322852650 path: /0000-0003-3944-7769/work/35062901 publication-date: null put-code: 35062901 source: assertion-origin-client-id: null assertion-origin-name: null assertion-origin-orcid: null source-client-id: null source-name: value: L. 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meta: status_code: 200 timestamp: '2023-09-30T17:15:25.750243' url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/david-mech profile: abstracts: [] affiliations: [] education: - Ph.D. Degree, Wildlife Ecology, Purdue University, 1962, Lafayette, IN - B.S. Degree, Conservation, Cornell University, 1958, Ithaca, NY email: david_mech@usgs.gov expertise_terms: - Population Regulation - Predator-Prey Relations - Social Ecology - Wolf Ecology and Behavior - Wolf Prey honors: - Aldo Leopold Memorial Award - The Wildlife Society intro_statements: - "L. David Mech (\u201CDave\u201D) is a Senior Research Scientist with the USGS\ \ Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center and works at the St. Paul, Minnesota\ \ duty station." name: David Mech, PhD name_qualifier: null orcid: 0000-0003-3944-7769 organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/northern-prairie-wildlife-research-center organization_name: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center personal_statement: "Dr. Mech has studied wolves since 1958 in Isle Royale National\ \ Park (1958-1961), Minnesota (1964 to present), Yellowstone National Park (1995\ \ to Present) , Denali National Park (1986-1995). Each summer from 1986 through\ \ 2010, he lived with, and studied, a pack of wolves tolerant to humans on Ellesmere\ \ Island, in Canada\u2019s High Arctic. He chaired the IUCN Wolf Specialist\ \ Group of the World Conservation Union from 1978 to 2013 when the group was\ \ absorbed into the Canid Specialist Group (CSG). Dr. Mech is now an advisor\ \ on wolves to the chair of the CSG. He is continuing his research on wolf ecology\ \ and behavior, predator-prey relations, population regulation, and social ecology." professional_experience: - Senior Research Scientist, 1999 to present; U.S. Geological Survey - Research Wildlife Biologist, 1969 to 1999; Biological Resources Division of the USGS (formerly Division of Endangered Species Research, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) title: Senior Research Scientist