Tracey Dearlove                                   International Reintroduction Research Intern

Tracey joined the Centre for Conservation Research from New Zealand in 2006, as the first recipient of the Centre's International Scholarship Program. This program complements the Centre's annual Canadian Fellowship Program by providing biologists from other countries with opportunities to receive exposure to Canadian conservation initiatives and train in scientific methods of species recovery, then return home to integrate their new skills into their country's conservation initiatives.

Tracey completed her B.Sc. in Zoology and Geography and Postgraduate Diploma in Wildlife Management, both at the University of Otago. Tracey's previous research experience includes monitoring breeding and behaviour in South Island robin (Petroica australis) and South Island saddleback (Philesturnus carunculatus) and monitoring population trends in New Zealand fur seal (Arctocephalus forsteri). Since reintroductions are often important components of New Zealand's species recovery programs, Tracey will be working within the Husky Energy Endangered Species Reintroduction Research Program at the Centre. Primarily, she will be involved in assessing the feasibility and conservation benefits of studying Vancouver Island marmot (Marmota vancouverensis) hibernation behaviour and assisting in the Centre's study of dispersal patterns in juvenile northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens).