Archive for October, 2020

Aquadocs Podcast: Conversations about aquatic medicine and conservation

Aquadocs Podcast: Conversations about aquatic medicine and conservation

Join each week as host Michelle Greenfield interviews veterinarians and other animal health and science experts about ways they are making a difference in the aquatic medicine community.

October 26, 2020 News, Podcasts
Webinar: Urban Wildlife Projects

Webinar: Urban Wildlife Projects

A FREE Zoom webinar offered through the Wildlife Disease Association and The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine!

Assistant Professor, Veterinary Immunopathologist with Wildlife Focus- St. George’s University

Seeking an Assistant Professor in Immunopathology with Wildlife focus, non-tenure track, at the Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, St. George’s University, Grenada, West Indies.

October 19, 2020 Job Postings
Surgically Implanting River Otters with Intra-Abdominal Radio Transmitters Using Reversible Non-DEA Scheduled Drugs

Surgically Implanting River Otters with Intra-Abdominal Radio Transmitters Using Reversible Non-DEA Scheduled Drugs

This news story by The Wildlife Society describes a recent study using an anesthetic protocol of non-scheduled drugs for field surgery of River Otters.

October 19, 2020 News
Listeria found in wild gray foxes in New Hampshire

Listeria found in wild gray foxes in New Hampshire

Listeria has been found in two New Hampshire wild gray foxes by investigators at the New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire

October 16, 2020 News
NWRA Scholarships for Students and Wildlife Rehabilitators

NWRA Scholarships for Students and Wildlife Rehabilitators

The National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association (NWRA) offers several scholarship opportunities to defray the costs of attending the annual symposium, help with other educational costs, and more!

Staff Veterinarian-The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Illinois

Staff Veterinarian-The Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Illinois

This position serves as the supervisor of animal medical care and the primary doctor for all incoming wild patients and resident animals.

October 16, 2020 Job Postings
Ophidiomycosis, an emerging fungal disease of snakes: Targeted surveillance on military lands and detection in the western US and Puerto Rico

Ophidiomycosis, an emerging fungal disease of snakes: Targeted surveillance on military lands and detection in the western US and Puerto Rico

Ophidiomycosis (formerly referred to as Snake Fungal Disease, SFD), an emergent disease on the North American landscape poses a threat to snake population health and stability.

October 16, 2020 Research & Publications
California tightens rules on rat poisons that kill wildlife

California tightens rules on rat poisons that kill wildlife

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a bill widely restricting the use of certain highly potent rat poisons that are blamed for killing mountain lions, birds and endangered wildlife.

October 15, 2020 News
Research Associate in Human Dimensions of Disease Risk of RHDV2 – University of Georgia

Research Associate in Human Dimensions of Disease Risk of RHDV2 – University of Georgia

The individual hired onto this project will use both quantitative and qualitative human dimensions methods (surveys and interviews) to study Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus 2 (RHDV2).

October 15, 2020 Job Postings