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usgs_staff_profile:

 meta:
   status_code: 200
   timestamp: '2023-09-30T16:39:27.495486'
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/david-brandt
 profile:
   abstracts: []
   affiliations: []
   education:
   - B.S., Fisheries and Wildlife Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
   email: dbrandt@usgs.gov
   expertise_terms:
   - Animal Capture
   - Animal Tracking
   - Banding
   - Cranes
   - Habitat Restoration
   - Tracking Device Development
   - Waterfowl Brood Ecology
   honors: []
   intro_statements:
   - David Brandt is a Wildlife Biologist at the USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research
     Center in Jamestown, North Dakota.
   name: David Brandt
   name_qualifier: null
   orcid: 0000-0001-9786-307X
   organization_link: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/northern-prairie-wildlife-research-center
   organization_name: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
   personal_statement: "Interests include waterfowl ecology and conservation, sandhill\
     \ cranes, whooping cranes, and conservation and restoration of habitats they\
     \ depend on. Specific areas of interest and extensive field experience include\
     \ capture/banding and marking techniques used on medium to large birds, development,\
     \ and use of new technologies for remotely tracking wildlife, and waterfowl\
     \ nesting and brood rearing in prairie landscapes.  He has conducted research\
     \ on breeding, migrating, and wintering birds throughout the southern, central,\
     \ and northern Great Plains and marked and monitored birds that migrate from\
     \ Mexico to Russia. He has been involved with sandhill cranes and the Central\
     \ Platte River Valley of Nebraska since the late 1990\u2019s, capturing, marking,\
     \ and monitoring hundreds of these ancient migrants.  Since 2009, research included\
     \ capturing and marking endangered whooping cranes from the remaining wild population\
     \ to gather baseline information on migration, habitat use, and important stopover\
     \ areas throughout their annual cycle.  He developed a capture method that enabled\
     \ the first marking of adult whooping cranes from this population on their wintering\
     \ grounds.  He is also involved in investigating techniques used for establishing\
     \ high diversity native plantings in degraded landscapes."
   professional_experience:
   - '1998-Present:  Wildlife Biologist, USGS, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research
     Center, Jamestown, North Dakota'
   - '1991-1997:  Biological Technician (Wildlife), USGS, Northern Prairie Wildlife
     Research Center, Jamestown, North Dakota'
   title: Wildlife Biologist