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“Well being the director I connect everything together from the research to
different programs and their itineraries. ... I participate in the three main jobs in a sanctuary they are: conservation, education and wildlife research. ... And the research mostly happens down at our Cape May office, its research with the objective of getting information that we can then us to further conservation in New Jersey. ... I went to Rutgers University where I studied wildlife biology, was interested in being an active hands on biologist. ... Then I worked for the state department of environmental control for a while, from there I worked as a naturalist I’ve taught wildlife biology at Rutgers for a couple of semesters and then this position opened up and I liked this conservation organization so while some of the work is a pain I took the job and became the sanctuary director. ...
“Well the first thing is the time to save an animal is when it is still common not when it becomes endangered when it becomes endangered a whole bunch of very significant steps must be taken that require time, research, and money. ... But we do not study that precise of a topic our research is done at the species level or above so that we are not doing detailed primary experiments on things like energy flow, our organization is more species based so we do things like rate of weight gain in birds at stop over points, which in fact is a good example of an energy flow in an ecosystem one of the most important research projects that we are doing right now is actually at the Delaware Bay where we are trying to evaluate how fast a bird called the red knots gain weight. ... Right there on the bay shore the horse shoe crab eggs are being over-harvested the number of crabs that are spawning is reducing their eggs and we are trying to find out what that is doing to the shore birds and what its doing is slowing down their weight gain so that they cant gain enough weight fast enough to continue to migrate to the arctic so then we use that research to go to the law makers and explain the declining results on shore birds because they cannot migrate to breed so we need to cut down on the harvesting of horse shoe crabs otherwise this species will become endangered and may become extinct, that’s what I mean by applied research, in other words we try to find solutions to conservation problems that’s the approach of our research. ... ”
What is your opinion of human impact on ecosystems and the biosphere some of it is not intended but a way of life? ...
“You hit the net on the head there, certain few adaptable species that are less impacted by human activities we will always have.
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