Research Team

Dr. Paul Curtis

Dr. Paul Curtis has coordinated the Wildlife Damage Management Program for Cornell Cooperative Extension since 1990. His research interests include wildlife damage management in urban and agricultural landscapes, wildlife fertility control, and resolving community-based wildlife issues. Extension programming has included public policy education and a variety of wildlife-related publications and videotapes. Dr. Curtis is co-principal investigator and oversees the coyote behavioral ecology study.

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Dr. Dan Decker

Dr. Dan Decker, professor of human dimensions of wildlife management and co-leader of the Human Dimensions Research Unit in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University, has studied the human attitudinal and behavior aspects of wildlife management for over 30 years. He is co-principal investigator on the New York Suburban Coyote Project and oversees the human dimensions research.

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Daniel Bogan

Daniel Bogan is a PhD candidate at Cornell University. He received his B.S. in Environmental and Forest Biology from SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry and an M.S. in Biology from SUNY University at Albany. He has studied suburban coyotes and other carnivores since 2001. His research interests include behavioral and spatial ecology, wildlife demographics, and geographic information systems.

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Heather Wieczorek Hudenko

Heather is a graduate student with the Human Dimensions Research Unit at Cornell University. Her research interests include human-carnivore interactions and wildlife conservation.

William Siemer

William F. (Bill) Siemer is a Research Specialist and Ph.D. candidate with the Human Dimensions Research Unit at Cornell University. His research interests relate to understanding wildlife management stakeholders and improving stakeholder engagement processes.