Brian Leo Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, California, United States

The activities of this position are focused on scientific investigation, conservation, and management of the state’s natural resources and providing for their public use. This position functions as a statewide lead for developing and implementing resource assessment, conservation, and management activities regarding deer and their habitats. The position.

Hilo, Hawai'i

I administer, plan, and manage the hunting program at Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), located on the Big Island of Hawai'i. I coordinate hunting activities in accordance with the Sikes Act and applicable Army regulations. Through managed harvest, the program reduces stress on sensitive resources within PTA-managed lands and thus supports sustained military.

Guam

• Develop and implement standard operating protocols that help prevent the establishment and spread of invasive species on military lands in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
• Designed and implemented vegetation and vertebrate invasive species surveys.
• Created and managed database in Microsoft Access.
• Designed data dictionaries for Trimble handheld units using GPS Pathfider office.
• Integrated R, ArcGIS, Access, and Excel to conduct analyses, summarize data, and write reports.
• Author of bio sanitation SOP for military training activities in the Mariana islands.

Greater San Diego Area

• Authored a peer-reviewed scientific article investigating endangered shorebird conservation.
• Conducted surveys for Corvids, raptors, and gull-billed terns.
• Removed predators of the endangered California least tern including mesocarnivores, Corvids, and raptors.

Seattle, WA

Responsibilities included leading weekly two-hour computer labs demonstrating how to use software to solve statistical and probability problems, creating lesson plans for labs, holding office hours, and grading homework.

• Spearheaded feral cat control project in response to declining numbers of the endangered Mariana crow on Rota Island.
• Authored two scientific publications on the topics of population modeling and home range analysis.
• Coordinated with USFWS, universities, local government, and local landowners to achieve project objectives.
• Managed a team of 5 predator control technicians.
• Responsible for written monthly reports.

Seattle, WA

Taught lab sessions on ecology, biology, and physiology of marine mammal species. Graded scientific writing assignments. Taught proposal writing and literature review.

Seattle, WA

Responsibilities included leading weekly two-hour computer labs demonstrating how to use software to solve statistical and probability problems, creating lesson plans for labs, holding office hours, and grading homework.

San Diego, CA

• Controlled predators in effort to mitigate the predation of the endangered loggerhead shrike on San Clemente Island.
• Anesthetized, collared, and tracked feral cats and foxes using radio telemetry.
• Conducted endangered Island fox population estimate project.
• Handled, measured, vaccinated, and took blood samples of the endangered island fox.

Darien, GA

• Assisted in a doctoral study of population dynamics and distribution of Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon.
• Operated 21ft. Carolina skiffs and 17ft Jon boats in the Altamaha River and Atlantic Ocean.
• Caught sturgeon using gillnets and driftnets.
• Handled and tagged sturgeon with PIT tags.
• Recorded data in the field and entered in Excel.
• Repaired 75 hp. Evinrude outboard engines.

Valhalla, NY

• Participated in ongoing waterfowl management program headed by the DEP.
• Operated F150, F250 4WD trucks, 18 ft. Jon boats, 19 ft. Maycraft console motorboats, and HUSKY airboats.
• Trailered Jon Boats, Maycraft, and airboats on a daily basis.
• Maintained and repaired 20 and 90 h.p. Honda engines.
• Identified/recorded data on mammals, birds, and fish in and around the Kensico and Hillview reservoirs.
• Hazed nuisance birds with pyrotechnics and motorboats.

Port Alsworth, AK

Assisted Sockeye salmon enumeration with the National Park Service in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve.Operated 17-21 ft console motorboats in coordination with seine and gillnets to catch Humpback Whitefish.Tagged and tracked Whitefish using radio telemetry. Created bathymetry maps of a remote lake using an acoustic sounding device, GIS, GPS, and.

Master’S Degree, School Of Aquatic And Fishery Sciences

Activities and Societies: Graduate and Professional Student Senate

Graduate Certificate, Data Analysis

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Wildlife Science

Activities and Societies: Alpha Tau Omega; Community Service Chair.Wildlife Science