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Footage from: Humboldt State's Biodiversity Conference 2013
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Sponsored by: HSU Society for Conservation Biology
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Mourad Gabriel is a wildlife disease ecologist whose research focus is to investigate and understand threats to wildlife of conservation concern from both infectious (bacterial, viral, macroparasites) and non-infectious (toxicants) agents. He completed both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Humboldt State University focusing on wildlife ecology and the diseases that affect wildlife populations. After graduate school, he co-founded Integral Ecology Research Center, a non-profit scientific research organization where he is senior ecologist and president. In addition to leading several interdisciplinary national and international research projects through this organization, Mourad has also mentored undergraduate and graduate students working on various wildlife conservation projects in both the field and laboratory. He is completing his Doctorate this fall in Comparative Pathology at the University of California Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine focusing on disease threats to California wildlife. He resides in Northwestern California where he and his wife, also an ecologist, try to spend as much time as possible outdoors and enjoying our public lands.

Mourad's Bio Conf 2013 talk is entitled, "Is the Grass Really Green? Conservation perils from illegal marijuana cultivation in California: current knowledge and unanswered questions." ~ ~ ~ Discoveries of the vast impacts that marijuana cultivation has on California's natural resources and the biological communities they support have recently emerged. However, this is a novel impact with as yet undocumented far-reaching short and long term effects. This talk discusses the current knowledge we have generated on the subject as well as potential scenarios of impact on biodiversity and species of conservation concern.

~ Integral Ecology Research Center - http://www.iercecology.org/

~ Mourad's UC Davis page: http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/cdcg/Moura...