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MARCELLA J KELLY
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EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
2003--Present: Evaluation of remote camera reliability in wildlife studies. Acorn Alcinda Foundation $19,000. 2003--Present: Quality Deer Management: An evaluation of QDM in the piedmont of Virginia. Use of remote camera to estimate male deer population size through mark-recapture statistics. Deer Hunters Association. $45,000. 2002--Present: Small mammal abundance, community composition, and microhabitat associations across a harvested landscape. MeadWestvaco $21,000. 2002--Present: Ocelot density and home range: a comparison of camera trapping and radio telemetry for determining basic demographic parameters for a threatened species: Virginia Tech: $30,000. 2002--Present: Ecology of predator coexistence. Remote Camera Technology for Wildlife Studies Foundation $8,705 plus Center for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching - $8,000; plus McNair Scholars Program: $500, plus Wildlife Conservation Society $14,000, plus Philadelphia Zoo: $3,000. Total: $34,205. 2001--ASPIRES, Virginia Tech. The Center Woods wildlife research and training center. Creation of a Master Plan for research laboratories and open-air study sites for research on captive free-living wild animals. $36,000 plus matching funds. Total $66,000. |
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2000: Research Assistant, University of California, Davis. Endangered Stephen's kangaroo rat census and habitat requirements in Riverside County, Southern California. 1999--Present: Long-term monitoring project examining diversity and abundance of neotropical rainforest mammals at Las Cuevas Research Station, Belize, funding variable (SFSU, Virginia Tech, Philadelphia Zoo). 1996--1997: Researcher: Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, England. Collaborated with Dr. Sarah Durant to conduct a population viability analysis for cheetahs. 1993--2000: Dissertation research. The use of photographic identification of Serengeti cheetahs to determine population demography, viability, effective population size, and spatial organization. 1990--1991: Research Assistant: analysis of data on tail flagging in white-tailed deer using the computer program SPSS. This work resulted in publication. 1989: Research Assistant, Bodega Marine Laboratory, U.C. Davis, under Dr. A. Peter Klimley. Using ultrasonic telemetry to track the movements and behavior of scalloped hammerhead sharks homing to a sea mount in the Sea of Cortez in the Gulf of California. |
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OTHER EXPERIENCE
May 1995: Training in animal restraint, Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento, CA. Captured and tranquilized small, medium, and large sized wild mammals. 1987 - 1989: Raptor Center Intern, U.C. Davis raptor center. Hands on rehabilitation of raptors by providing physical therapy, flight cage, and flight line exercises |
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PUBLICATIONS
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ABSTRACTS AND PRESENTATIONS
Noss, A.J.; Kelly, M.J.; Camblos, H.B. and D. I. Rumiz. 2004. Pumas y jaguares simpátricos: datos de trampas-cámara en Bolivia y Belize. VI International Conference for the Management of Wildlife in Amazonia and Latin America: Lessons learnt. 5-10 September, 2004, Iquitos, Peru. Kelly, M. J.; Noss, A. J.; Camblos, H.B. and D. I. Rumiz. 2004. Sympatric pumas and jaguars: data from camera trapping in Bolivia and Belize. Society for Conservation Biology, July 2004; New York. Laver, P.N.; Kelly, M.J.; Caro, T. and S. M. Durant. 2004. Moss or a rolling stone - Serengeti cheetah, and the case for home range in a migratory carnivore. Society for Conservation Biology, July 2004; New York. Noss, A. J.; Maffei, L.; Kelly, M. J.; Arispe, R. and K. Rivero. 2004. Ocelot population densities in dry forests (Bolivia) and rain forests (Belize). Society for Conservation Biology, July 2004; New York. Wright, K.M.; Williams, L.A.; Haas, C.A.; Kelly, M.J. and P.D. Keyser. Model validation and improvement using new data on habitat characteristics important to salamanders. Society for Conservation Biology, July 2004; New York. Kelly, M.J. and H.B. Camblos. 2004. Estimating Puma Densities with Remote Cameras. Eastern Cougar Foundation annual meeting. April 28-30, 2004; Morgantown, West Virginia. Silver, S.C.; Ostro, L.E.T.; Marsh, L.K.; Maffei, L.; Noss, A.J.; Kelly, M.J.; Wallace, R.B.; Gomez, H. and G. Ayala. 2003. The use of camera traps for estimating jaguar abundance and density using capture/recapture analysis. Society for Conservation Biology. Duluth, Minnesota, June 29-July 2, 2003. Kelly, M.J. and C.M. Miller. 2002. Say cheese: Assessing remote camera reliability in field studies. The Wildlife Society 9th annual conference. Bismarck, North Dakota, September 24-28, 2002. Kelly, M.J. 2002. Using remote cameras for jaguar monitoring in Belize. Presentation at "Belize and the Wider Caribbean," a combined conference constituting the 4th International Belize Conference and the 4th British Carribean Geography Seminar in San Ignacio, Belize July 7-10th, 2002. Kelly, M.J. 2001. Jaguar monitoring in Western Belize: the results from a pilot study. Poster Presentation at the annual Congress of the Mesoamerican Society for Biology and Conservation. San Salvador, El Salvador. Kelly, M.J. 2000. Lineage loss in cheetahs: high variance and heritability in reproductive success affects Ne. Oral Presentation given at the annual meeting for the Society for Conservation Biology. University of Montana, Missoula. June 2000. Nominated for best student Presentation. Kelly, M.J. and Durant, S.M. 1999. Viability of the Serengeti cheetah. Oral Presentation at the Wildlife Society and University of California at Berkeley meeting: Population Viability Analysis: Assessing models for recovering endangered species. San Diego California, March, 1999. Kelly, M.J. and Durant, S.M. 1997. Is the Serengeti cheetah population viable? Oral Presentation at the annual meeting for the Society of Conservation Biology. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. June, 1997. Caro, T. and Kelly, M.J. 1997. The cheetah conservation controversy. Oral Presentation at the annual meeting for the Society of Conservation Biology. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. June, 1997. Kelly, M.J.; Hiby, L. and Lovell, P. 1996. Computer-aided identification of individual cheetahs. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Poster Presentation and published abstract in Abstracts of the American Society of Mammalogists 76th Annual Meeting. |
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INVITED SEMINARS
M.J. Kelly. 2004. On jungles and jungle cats. Northern Virginia Center, Virginia Tech; Alexandria, Virginia. September 15 2004. M.J. Kelly. 2004. Conservation Implications of Killing within Carnivores. Washington and Lee University. February 5 2004. M.J. Kelly. 2003. Carnivore Monitoring and Conservation in Western Belize. Philadelphia Zoo Zoofari Club and Docents. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; October 2003. M.J. Kelly. 2003. Killing in Carnivores. Philadelphia Zoo research staff. October 2003. M.J. Kelly. 2003. Killing in Carnivores: the ecology of co-existence. Biology Department Graduate Student Seminar series. Spring 2003. M.J. Kelly. 2003. Jaguars, Dams and Xate: the complexities of jaguar conservation in Belize, Central America. The Concord College Faculty Research Seminar Series and the McNair Scholars Program. April 2003. M.J. Kelly. 2002. Jaguar conservation in Belize. The student chapter of The Wildlife Society, Virginia Tech. M.J. Kelly. 2002. Jaguars, dams, plants and Belize-Guatemala relations. The international club coffee hour seminar series. Virginia Tech. Fall 2002. M.J. Kelly 2002. Conservation consequences of killing by carnivores. Invited speaker - North Carolina State University. |
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DIVERSITY WORK
McNair Scholar's program, Virginia Tech. Mentor for summer research program 2002 Women in Progress (WIP) mentor group participant, Virginia Tech. 2002 Girls in science, University of California at Davis, volunteer speaker and workshop leader for Jr. High School girls, March 2000 |
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HONORS AND AWARDS
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SOCIETIES, COMMITTEES, AND SERVICE
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