ALISON PRICE
M.S. Student under Dr. James T. Peterson
Georgia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Warnell School of Forest Resources
University of Georgia
Athens GA 30602
Office Phone: (706) 542-4833
Room 3-205, WSFR
Email: alisonprice@msn.com

Education:

I graduated from N. C. State University in 2004 with a B.S. in Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences (dual concentrations) and minors in Forestry and Environmental Science.

I am currently pursuing a Masters of Science through the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.

Current Research:

Development and evaluation of sampling protocols for at-risk fishes in the Coosa River Basin, under the advisement of Dr. James T. Peterson (James T. Peterson HOMEPAGE).

Visible-Implant-Elastomer tag retention in stream fishes

For more about the Etowah basin, go to: Etowah HCP - Welcome

Past employment:

Research Assistant at N.C. State University for Tim Langer, Ph.D. candidate; assisted with research on black bears in Hyde County, NC, including DNA lab work, data analysis, and tromping through the swamps.

Non-game Aquatic Technician for N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission; assisted with freshwater mussel surveys, fish wrangling, and mucking through the streams of NC.

Fisheries Technician intern for N. C. Division of Water Quality; assisted with IBI work in basins across N. C. and learned the delights of pulling pharyngeal teeth to identify the ubiquitous minnows (optional skills: falling in the stream and lasso-ing redhorse).

Fisheries Technician for N. C. State University; assisted with on-going anadromous fish research performing an American eel mark-recapture study. Well-versed in the arts of holding a wriggly fish, falling into the sound, and swatting at flocks of mosquitos.

Wildlife Technician for Grand Teton National Park; assisted with radio-telemetry bison research and spent many days in the mountains of Wyoming chasing around large brown cows.

More about myself:

I am from a small town in NC and developed a passion early on for wild things and wild places. As a "grown up", this passion has evolved into a love of hunting, fishing, and of course, doing research on stream fish. I particularly enjoy bow hunting and will welcome any opportunity to help cull the urban deer herds. I also appreciate the joys of tangling a fly-line in shrubs/trees/grasses/rocks in search of that perfect 'fish cast' that will result in a successful take by a discriminating fish.