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Smallwood CV 3 <br />determine the impact of past mercury mining on the status of California red -legged frogs in <br />Santa Clara County, California. <br />Senior Systems Ecologist, 1994-1995, EIP Associates, Sacramento, California. Provided consulting <br />services in environmental planning. Developed quantitative assessment of land units for their <br />conservation and restoration opportunities, using the ecological resource requirements of 29 <br />special -status species. Developed ecological indicators for prioritizing areas within Yolo <br />County to receive mitigation funds for habitat easements and restoration. <br />Post -Graduate Researcher, 1990-1994, Department of Agronomy and Range Science, U.C. Davis. <br />Under the mentorship of Dr. Shu Geng, studied landscape and management effects on temporal <br />and spatial patterns of abundance among pocket gophers and species of Falconiformes and <br />Carnivora in the Sacramento Valley. Also managed and analyzed a data base of energy use in <br />California agriculture, and assisted with a landscape (GIS) study of groundwater contamination <br />across Tulare County, California. <br />Work experience in graduate school: Co -taught Conservation Biology with Dr. Christine <br />Schonewald, 1991 & 1993, UC Davis Graduate Group in Ecology; Reader for Dr. Richard <br />Coss's course on Psychobiology in 1990, UC Davis Department of Psychology; Research <br />Assistant to Dr. Walter E. Howard, 1988-1990, UC Davis Department of Wildlife and Fisheries <br />Biology, testing durable baits for pocket gopher management in forest clearcuts; Research <br />Assistant to Dr. Terrell P. Salmon, 1987-1988, UC Wildlife Extension, Department of Wildlife <br />and Fisheries Biology, developing empirical models of mammal and bird invasions in North <br />America, and a rating system for priority research and control of exotic species based on <br />economic, environmental and human health hazards in California. Student Assistant to Dr. E. <br />Lee Fitzhugh, 1985-1987, UC Cooperative Extension, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries <br />Biology, developing and implementing a statewide mountain lion track count for long-term <br />monitoring of numbers and distribution. <br />Fulbright Research Fellow, Indonesia, 1988. Tested use of new sampling methods for numerical <br />monitoring of Sumatran tiger and six other species of endemic felids, and evaluated methods <br />used by other researchers. <br />Projects <br />Repowering wind energy projects through careful siting of new wind turbines using map -based <br />collision hazard models to minimize impacts to volant wildlife. Funded by wind companies <br />(principally NextEra Renewable Energy, Inc.), California Energy Commission and East Bay <br />Regional Park District, I have collaborated with a GIS analyst and managed a crew of five field <br />biologists performing golden eagle behavior surveys and nocturnal surveys on bats and owls. The <br />goal is to quantify flight patterns for development of predictive models to more carefully site new <br />wind turbines in repowering projects. Focused behavior surveys began May 2012 and continue. <br />Collision hazard models have been prepared for seven wind projects, three of which were built. <br />Planning for additional repowering projects is underway. <br />Test avian safety of new mixer -ejector wind turbine (MEWT). Designed and implemented a before - <br />after, control -impact experimental design to test the avian safety of a new, shrouded wind turbine <br />developed by Ogin Inc. (formerly known as F1oDesign Wind Turbine Corporation). Supported by a <br />