Connors and Short Gianotti Receive NSF Grant for Wildlife Management Research

John Patrick Connors (an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Texas A&M University and a former Pardee Center post-doctoral associate) and Anne Short Gianotti (an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Associate) were recently awarded a $375,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to support their research on wildlife management strategies.

The project, titled “Deer in the Suburbs: A Comparative Study of the Mobilization and Mutation of Wildlife Management Strategies,” will examine the shifting management strategies related to growing white-tailed deer populations in municipalities across Massachusetts and New York State. The project will help wildlife managers tackle the growing challenge of urban and suburban wildlife, and produce new knowledge about how management strategies spread among municipal actors and the ways that environmental politics unfold in these areas.

Click here to read more about Connors’ and Short Gianotti’s research on wildlife management in novel ecosystems.