Item talk:Q54097

USGS Staff Profile:

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 '@type': Person
 affiliation: []
 award:
 - Aldo Leopold Memorial Award - The Wildlife Society
 description:
 - '@type': TextObject
   abstract: Senior Research Scientist with the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research
     Center
   additionalType: short description
 - '@type': TextObject
   abstract: "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."
   additionalType: staff profile page introductory statement
 - '@type': TextObject
   abstract: "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."
   additionalType: personal statement
 email: david_mech@usgs.gov
 hasCredential:
 - '@type': EducationalOccupationalCredential
   name: Ph.D. Degree, Wildlife Ecology, Purdue University, 1962, Lafayette, IN
 - '@type': EducationalOccupationalCredential
   name: B.S. Degree, Conservation, Cornell University, 1958, Ithaca, NY
 hasOccupation:
 - '@type': OrganizationalRole
   affiliatedOrganization:
     '@type': Organization
     name: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
     url: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/northern-prairie-wildlife-research-center
   roleName: Senior Research Scientist
   startDate: '2024-05-10T20:59:26.142879'
 - '@type': Occupation
   additionalType: self-claimed professional experience
   name: Senior Research Scientist, 1999 to present; U.S. Geological Survey
 - '@type': Occupation
   additionalType: self-claimed professional experience
   name: Research Wildlife Biologist, 1969 to 1999; Biological Resources Division
     of the USGS (formerly Division of Endangered Species Research, U.S. Fish and
     Wildlife Service)
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   propertyID: ORCID
   value: 0000-0003-3944-7769
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   propertyID: GeoKB
   value: https://geokb.wikibase.cloud/entity/Q54097
 jobTitle: Senior Research Scientist
 knowsAbout:
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: Population Regulation
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: Predator-Prey Relations
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: Social Ecology
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: Wolf Ecology and Behavior
 - '@type': Thing
   additionalType: self-claimed expertise
   name: Wolf Prey
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   '@type': OrganizationalRole
   member:
     '@type': Organization
     name: U.S. Geological Survey
   name: staff member
   startDate: '2024-05-10T20:59:26.138809'
 name: David Mech, PhD
 url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/david-mech