@cl_appel

Wildlife Science PhD candidate 🦉📈 Bioacoustics, owls, camera traps, computer vision. 🐾 Also porcupines. 🍃 Nature nerd, reader. 📚 she/her

 PNW
appelc.github.io/
Joined July 2011
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Cara Appel retweeted
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@taaltree22 Feb 2025
I am realizing that we've done a poor job at communicating how important the fired federal scientists and managers are. These are the people who manage our fisheries, wildlife, endangered species recovery, aquaculture production, agricultural productivity, water and air quality/1
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Fun fact: the name for a baby porcupine is a porcupette. They have soft quills when they are born, but they grow stronger every day. Once they grow up, they’ll have 30,000 quills, which help them defend against predators and stay warm! Photo by @glacierbaynps
A brown baby porcupette in dense green foliage, nibbling on a leaf.

ALT A brown baby porcupette in dense green foliage, nibbling on a leaf.

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Cara Appel retweeted
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@taaltree15 Oct 2024
Beautiful feature on Western Spotted Skunks in the temperate rainforests of Oregon. A few years ago, we knew almost nothing about them. youtube.com/watch?v=7wKEnwHs…
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Meet Dakota - the first North American porcupette (baby porcupine) to be born via c-section. When mom Maizey wasn't laboring on her own, our wildlife care team decided to perform a c-section, saving the lives of both mom and Dakota. Read more: sdzoo.com/maizeys-miracle
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We are gearing up for the 6th annual Snapshot USA national mammal survey this fall and have some camera kits to loan out. Please apply or spread the news. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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In 2019, we set 10 camera traps from 65-90m in the crown of the world's tallest tropical tree, with no real idea whether they'd get anything at all They did 🤩 ... 🧵 #Borneo #RainforestGiants
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🚨 New open access publication! 🚨 doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4873 (🧵 below)
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excited to share Seattle birds with folks from CVPR tomorrow! 🦅
Sara Beery@sarameghanbeery19 Jun 2024
For those joining tomorrow, if you're coming over from the conference center with us we will meet at 7 in front of Arch (7th and Pike) and then take the light rail. Otherwise we will collectively meet at the UW Boathouse at 7:30! BIRD NERDS ASSEMBLE!!
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Acoustic individual identification, or "AIID" has the potential to open new frontiers in ecological & evolutionary research. We reviewed & synthesized studies that identify individuals in acoustic recordings ("AIID") and make some recommendations for next steps! 1/n
Trends in Ecology & Evolution@Trends_Ecol_Evo11 Jun 2024
Online now: Individual identification in acoustic recordings dlvr.it/T87cTR
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Are you coming to @CVPR? Do you like birds? Do you like walks? @oisinmacaodha @Grant_Van_Horn @juliachae_ @cl_appel and I are hosting the FOURTH #CVBirdWalk this Thursday morning! All are welcome to join - birding experience and/or CVPR registration not necessary 😁
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Cactus Jack is back #whiteporcupine
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Like working with camera trap pictures and data? join the #SnapshotUSA team this year Aug-Feb @NationalZoo in Front Royal VA
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📢Applications are still open for these graduate positions on large mammal monitoring in Montana!
Mahdieh Tourani@TouraniMa22 Mar 2024
🥁Graduate opportunity🥁 I am recruiting 2 graduate students in applied quantitative ecology (1 PhD, 1 MSc) to evaluate large mammal monitoring tools in Montana jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/… jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/… .@umontana .@FCFCMontana .@MontanaFWP 📢Repost is much appreciated!
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Great article in @CaltechMagazine about the @cv4ecology program! "It was really amazing to see how bridging gaps between disciplines provides an entirely new perspective" 💜💜💜 Can't wait for #CV4Ecology2025 next January! magazine.caltech.edu/post/wh…

What Computer Vision Can Tell Us About the Natural World — Caltech Magazine

A Caltech-led program works to give ecologists computer-vision tools to analyze large sets of data. By Brian Smith It should not be hard to find the biggest creature in the world. Yet, amid all the...

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Killing barred owls is a last-ditch effort to save northern spotted owls, old-growth specialists that are plummeting toward extinction. This is nobody’s first choice but is likely the only way to give them any chance at persistence. 🦉 npr.org/2024/04/01/124187470…

A government proposal to kill a half-million owls sparks controversy

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal to kill some 470,000 owls over 30 years to protect other owl species has prompted conservationists and animal welfare advocates to weigh the consequences.

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It’s easy to advocate for more palatable measures, but nothing short of lethal removal shows promise, and we’re running out of time. I do think there are legit reasons to oppose this effort, but we need to recognize that without it we will almost certainly lose n. spotted owls.
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I appreciate the nuance in this article. A lot of news coverage is sensationalist and loses sight of the big picture. This is an extinction story. We can, and should, debate whether and how to try to stop it, but coming to terms with the sad reality needs to be the first step.
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Everyone needs a trip to the coast, right? Wolverine sightings continued this year with confirmed reports in Nehalem, Netarts and Newport over the last week and a half! The most recent sighting was in Newport on Thursday, March 21.
Wolverine seen outside a house in Nehalem. Photo by Sharon Williams.

ALT Wolverine seen outside a house in Nehalem. Photo by Sharon Williams.

Wolverine seen traveling across a field in the Newport area. Photo by Terry Martin.

ALT Wolverine seen traveling across a field in the Newport area. Photo by Terry Martin.

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#NewPaper: Working with a huge team of 220 co-authors representing 102 projects in 21 countries, we analyzed data from 5400 #cameratraps to ask how #wildlife behaviours changed during the COVID-19 “anthropause” nature.com/articles/s41559-0… ..1/
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