Ronald Moore Email & Phone Number

• ANABATs installation and maintenance in IA, NE, SD, WI, and MN
• Spotted Owl and Marbled Murrelet surveys (received Marbled Murrelet certification) and transmission line habitat assessment in OR
• Swift Fox Spotlight Surveys, Daytime Swift Fox Den Transect Surveys, and Burrowing Owl Surveys in WY (via ATV)
• Greater sage grouse trapping, handling, collaring, and radio telemetry via ATV in WY (ATV certification, and approximately 5,000 miles of off-road operation experience in varied weather and extreme terrain)
• Post-construction raptor monitoring and turbine curtailment for eagles at an active wind farm, eagle nest monitoring, construction surveys, and prairie dog population transect surveys in WY
• Pre-construction raptor monitoring, avian use, nest surveys, eagle nest monitoring, small bird point counts, grassland transect surveys, and avian wetland surveys in IA, SD, and MN

Davenport, Iowa, United States

Scheduled and supervised on-site security team.

Princeton, IA

• State certified conservation law enforcement and public safety officer covering five counties (including a few of the larger metro areas) in Iowa and roughly 1/3 of the Mississippi River (along Iowa/Illinois) border.
• Routine patrolling of lakes, streams, wildlife areas, and other public recreation areas for any illegal activities with a focus on boating and fishing; performing special operations such as "Operation Dry Water"; first.
• Public relations as an authority on conservation, recreation, and laws, answering questions and providing information and education; representative for Iowa law enforcement agencies and the Iowa D.N.R., making numerous.
• Working closely with other agencies: Army Corp. of Engineers; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services; Iowa State Patrol; and various county conservation boards, sheriff departments, local police, fire, rescue, ambulances.
• Trained in police self defense, handcuffing techniques, verbal judo, pat-downs, searches, etc.; certified in first aid and use of OC (pepperspray)
• Wildlife rescue/relocation; official report writing; filling out citations, forms, and police reports; attending court trials; equipment and data organization

• Creel anglers (asking questions and collecting fish data to enter into database and dissemination of fishing information like hotspots and bait choice); collecting data on captured fish (identifying, measuring.
• Maintenance, cleaning, and organizing, and repair of nets, equipments, boats, trucks, office, and boat shed

Davenport, Iowa Area

• Bag compost and stack onto pallets
• Gather temperature and moisture data to regulate composting process
• Clean and maintain facilities, grounds, and equipment
• Defensive driving course

Wapello, IA

• In partnership with the Iowa D.N.R. Wildlife Management Bureau:
• Management on wildlife lands in several counties: plowing, discing, and planting of food plots and prairie; removal of trees and exotic/invasive species; prairie restoration; wetland creation and water level.
• Equipment maintenance and repair: trucks, ATVs, trailers, boats, tractors, tractor implements, mowers, weed eaters, chainsaws, and pumps
• Construction and maintenance of gates, fences, parking areas, roads, signs, and buildings
• CWD sampling; waterfowl hunter check station (collecting data on hunter kills; data entry into database; and interpretation and education on species identification, lake management, DNR protocol, hunting laws, and.
• Clean office, garage, check station, and storage buildings; clean parking areas; mowing and weed-eating; replace management area signs and lake signs

Star, North Carolina

• Help develop, alter, and implement a Uwharrie multi-species inventory and monitoring (UMSIM) protocol, based on the Iowa MSIM, for the Uwharries mountains and surrounding area by partaking in the pilot months
• Performing bird point counts, bird callback surveys, timed herpetological and visual/audio searches, wetland larval amphibian dip-net surveys, habitat classification
• GPS usage, data collection (in the form of observing, identifying, counting, capturing, handling, and/or measuring various wildlife by means of diverse sampling methods)
• Interpretation on UMSIM procedures and discussions on UMSIM discoveries with biologists and private citizens
• Assisted with and volunteered on endangered Bachmann Sparrow point counts and GIS mapping in the Sandhills; endangered gopher frog trapping by drift fence arrays and radio-telemetry

Ellington, MO

• Led a team in drift fence array installation in the Ozark mountains; funnel trap creation and preparation; Sherman trap preparation and site flagging
• Conducting surveys trapping, identifying, measuring, and marking of all small mammals and herpetofauna; collect data on downed woody debris
• General maintenance; trail/road clearing; wrote and diagrammed the protocol; GPS locations with Trimble unit; data entry and proofing; quality control, insuring everyone was collecting all data
• Worked multiple sites and picked up double duty during several periods of turnover, being short staffed, to insure all data was data was collected and no arrays were skipped
• Volunteered with The Nature Conservancy to conduct local weekly surveys for dragonflies to test a protocol in its pilot year

Chariton, IA

• In Partnership with the Iowa D.N.R. Wildlife Diversity Program:
• Conducted Multi-Species Inventory and Monitoring project (MSIM) data entry, bald eagle nest data entry, colonial nesting waterbird rookery data entry; creation of GIS bald eagle nest and colonial nesting waterbird.
• Trumpeter swan care and management; trumpeter swan and pelican rescues
• Interpretation on MSIM procedures and discussions on MSIM discoveries; bald eagle days; anuran volunteer wildlife and monitoring nature-mapping workshops; general interpretation and discussion with public citizens
• Leading a five-member MSIM crew (training, scheduling, organization, conflict resolution, and other managerial duties)
• Help develop, alter, and implement a multi-species inventory protocol for Iowa by partaking in the pilot years

Chariton, IA

• Assist with burnings in Lucas County Iowa, including woodlands and prairies
• Experience with various burning techniques and equipment, including ATVs, water pumps, hand tools, and 4 wheel drive vehicles

Chariton, IA

• Help develop, alter, and implement a multi-species inventory protocol for Iowa by partaking in the pilot years
• Establish study plots on a dozen private lands; GPS usage; data collection (in the form of observing, identifying, counting, capturing, handling, and/or measuring various wildlife by means of diverse sampling methods).
• Perform bird point counts, bird nocturnal callback surveys, frog nocturnal surveys, timed herpetological visual/audio searches, aquatic trapping (for reptiles, amphibians, and fish), electro-shocking and seining of.
• Interpretation and coordination with private landowners in the project and the general public
• Experience with all the diverse biological sampling equipment used in the surveys listed above; ATV and 4 wheel drive vehicle operation and maintenance
• Volunteered for some trumpeter swan capture and relocation; duck banding; bobcat trapping and radio telemetry

Fairport, IA

• Performed Aquaculture (care, analysis, maintenance, and draining of ponds; and spawning, rearing, sampling, counting, analyzing, and stocking of several fish species: bass, bluegill, carp, catfish, muskellunge, walleye)
• Conducted extensive stocking trips throughout the state of Iowa, including remote areas
• Aided many biologists in sampling lakes and rivers, and gathering of brood stock and research data
• Educated the public on fish characteristics, species identification, laws, pond management, fishing techniques, and DNR protocol at fish shows and on stocking trips
• Entire park management and maintenance, including the use of tractors (sickle mowing, discing, and bucket use)

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology/Biological Sciences, General, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Beta Beta

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Founder/President of Environmental Campus Organization (ECO)