{"id":3858,"date":"2023-03-13T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/?page_id=3858"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:34:13","slug":"matthew-kauffman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/matthew-kauffman\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Kauffman"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Matthew Kauffman
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Professor, University of Wyoming
Leader of USGS Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Lead Scientist of the Wyoming Migration Initiative<\/p>

Phone: (307) 766-6404
Email:mkauffm1@uwyo.edu<\/a>
<\/strong>Website: http:\/\/migrationinitiative.com<\/a>

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Q. What is the highlight of your career?<\/strong>
A. Seeing public engagement around our migration work\u00a0through the Wyoming\u00a0Migration Initiative<\/p>

Q. What are challenges you encounter in your career?<\/strong>
A. There are many. Capturing wild animals under extreme winter conditions. Coordinating with managers and landowners. Navigating Wyoming politics around the impacts of oil and gas development, climate change, etc.<\/p>

Q. How did you get to this career?<\/strong>
A. In graduate school I was studying a forest pathogen. But then, I became fascinated by the plight of peregrine falcons in California that had recovered from DDT-induced eggshell thinning. This started out as a simple class project, but led to 2 scientific papers several years later. We were pursuing this mystery of how peregrine falcons recovered despite not being able to reproduce, exploring the role of captive breeding. I basically taught myself many of the basics of wildlife biology while trying to solve this puzzle. This launched me into wildlife biology.<\/p>

Q. What is something unique about your career most people might not know or understand about what you do?<\/strong>
A.\u00a0I spend a lot of time working with professional cartographers. Making beautiful\u00a0maps of\u00a0ungulate migrations has become a really\u00a0important part of our work. I have no formal training in this.<\/p>

Q.\u00a0Are there scholarship or internship opportunities available with your career? If so, where can more information about those be found?<\/strong>
A. Yes, we have had numerous undergraduates at UW do internships. There are lots of scholarship opportunities,\u00a0but those are spread across the internet. A place to start is Wyoming TWS.\u00a0https:\/\/wildlife.org\/wyoming-chapter\/<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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2023 Session Speakers Matthew Kauffman Professor, University of WyomingLeader of USGS Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research UnitLead Scientist of the Wyoming Migration Initiative Phone: (307) 766-6404Email:mkauffm1@uwyo.eduWebsite: http:\/\/migrationinitiative.com \u00a0 Watch the Video Q. What is the highlight of your career?A. Seeing public engagement around our migration work\u00a0through the Wyoming\u00a0Migration Initiative Q. What are challenges you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoming4h.org\/virtual-career-night\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}