Dr. Marco Musiani
Faculty of Environmental Design
Professional Faculties Building, Room 3171
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
T2N 1N4
Telephone: 1.403.220.2604
Facsimile: 1.403.284.4399
Email: mmusiani@ucalgary.ca
Biography
I am an Associate
Professor with the Faculty of Environmental Design,
University of Calgary, and a Faculty Affiliate with the
University of Montana, U.S. I also hold a joint appointment
with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Calgary,
Department of Ecosystem and Public Health. Please see the
links below to view pages highlighting work by my group.
Together with me, the Postdoctoral fellows, and the PhD and
Master students in my lab have a strong focus on landscape
ecology, genetics and wildlife management. Recently, with
some students I am also focusing on human dimensions in
wildlife management issues. With other students again, I am
studying wildlife movements and their reaction to people
using multi-agent models.
Currently, I am
analyzing ecological data on wolves and their prey, which
was gathered throughout Northern and Western Canada. I am
Principal Investigator or co-PI on a number of projects with
hundreds of Global Positioning System (GPS) collars deployed
on elk, caribou, moose, wolves and other wildlife species
throughout the Rocky Mountains and Foothills regions of
Canada. All such projects are focused on impact assessment,
mainly of forestry and oil and gas development. I also teach
Impact Assessment and Research Methods courses.
Typically, I have
published papers on a number of applied ecology journals,
which also include articles on wildlife ecology and
management in Poland, Italy, Canada and the U.S.. Recently,
I have also participated in interdisciplinary and glamorous
studies published in journal such as Nature and Science.
Finally, I have published a couple of books on wolves with
the University of Calgary Press.
I organized the
World Wolf Congress 2003 in Banff, Canada. I often serve as
reviewer for research and management projects such as the
Wolf Reintroduction Programs in the North-western and the
South-western U.S., and act as a consultant for the Food and
Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (to protect
livestock from wolves).