In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Ryan Tate about Phytophthora and pigeons.
Links Mentioned in the Episode: Evaluating scent detection dogs as a tool to detect pathogenic Phytophthora species
Science Highlight: Should the cocktail training method cause a stir? Training frog generalist detection dogs with combined species samples
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Sarah Jackson from New York-New Jersey Trail Conference about sticky sage.
Links Mentioned in the Episode: None
Science Highlight: Impact of variations in training schedules on dogs’ acquisition and retention of an odor detection task
Where to find Sarah: Website
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Jo Laurens from The Force Free Gun Dogs about gundogs.
Links Mentioned in the Episode: None
Science Highlight: Switching to marine prey leads to unprecedented mercury concentrations in a population of coastal Alaska wolves
Where to find Jo: Website | Force Free Gundog Group
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Lauren Wendt from Momentum K9 about large search area strategy.
Links Mentioned in the Episode: None
Science Highlight: Comparison of mechanical sorting and DNA metabarcoding for diet analysis with fresh and degraded wolf scats
Where to find Lauren: Website
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla is back for part two with Sage Gustafson and Tiff Shao about the challenging topic of life with high-energy, high-drive, and/or high-arousal dogs who are injured or sick or otherwise cannot physically perform the behaviors that their brains want without causing pain.
Links Mentioned in the Episode: None
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Where to find Sage: Facebook
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla talks with Sage Gustafson and Tiff Shao about the challenging topic of life with high-energy, high-drive, and/or high-arousal dogs who are injured or sick or otherwise cannot physically perform the behaviors that their brains want without causing pain.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla talks with Brett Sweezy about spatial ecology and sharks.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Efficiency and Bias in Strip and Line Transect Sampling
Where to find Brett: Instagram | Bluesky
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla talks about breaking into the field of conservation detection dogs.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: None
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Brenna Aizen from the Penn Vet Working Dog Center Wildlife Futures Program about dogs sniffing out chronic wasting disease.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Effect of rapid changes in environmental conditions on canine detection of methyl benzoate
Where to find Brenna: Website | LinkedIn
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla is back with Dr. Charles van Rees to talk about getting into grad school.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Trail vs. thicket: Evaluating conservation detection dog performance in varied terrain
Where to find Charles: Website | Lab Website | Instagram
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Tim Hofmann, the Scat Dog Handler, Research Manager and Research Coordinator at Cheetah Conservation Fund about his PhD research using detection dogs and other methods to study cheetahs in Namibia and beyond.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: None this week!
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Paul Bunker and Meg Barnes about hot takes in the conservation dog training community.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: None this week!
Where to find Paul: Website |Facebook |Instagram
Where to find Meg: Website |Facebook |Instagram
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Kat Serafina about plants and puppies.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: An approach to identify bias in scent detection dog testing
Where to find Kat: Website | Facebook
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks to Zoos Victoria Wildlife Detection Dog Officer Dr Nick Rutter and Human Surveyor Shari Barmos about Detection Dog Daisy searching for the critically endangered Tea-tree fingers fungus.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: The fluid dynamics of canine olfaction: unique nasal airflow patterns as an explanation of macrosmia
This biologist and her rescue dog help protect bears in the Andes
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Courtney Brown from Einstein K9 about search and rescue, handler scent discrimination, and sensitivity and specificity.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Conservation detection dogs: A critical review of efficacy and methodology
Problem Solving with Kayla Fratt
Where to find Courtney: Website | Facebook
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Ellen Dymit from Oregon State University about Metabarcoding, SNPs, and microsatellites.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Training of Ecological Detection Dogs for Wolf Scat (Canis lupus)
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Nicholas Magliocca about jaguars, Central American conservation, and the drug war.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'
Where to find Nicolas: Website
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Kerry Ryan from Dog Adventures Northwest about dog boarding.
Links Mentioned in the Episode:
Science Highlight: Evaluating and integrating spatial capture–recapture models with data of variable individual identifiability
Where to find Kerry: Website | Facebook | Instagram
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Naomi Hodges and Dr. Jessica Thomas about Detection Dog Kip searching for Platypus burrows within Coranderrk Creek at Healesville Sanctuary
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Science Highlight: Conservation Detection Dogs Increase Efficacy for Prey Detection at Carnivore GPS Cluster Sites During Summer
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In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla is back with Esther Matthews to talk about succulent anti-poaching detection dogs.
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Where to find Esther: Website | Instagram | Dog’s Instagram
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