Raptor Conservation at The Peregrine Fund
**This VIP is not accepting students for Fall 2024**
What is the ambitious goal of this project?
Implement the Global Raptor Impact Network (GRIN) and revolutionize how raptor science is conducted and disseminated around the world.
The Global Raptor Impact Network (GRIN) is The Peregrine Fund’s comprehensive data collection, safe-guarding, and analysis enterprise. GRIN streamlines how raptor biologists around the world are collecting, sharing, and analyzing data. The GRIN mobile app collects and organizes virtually all types of monitoring data for every named raptor species on Earth into a single comprehensive database. Monitoring capacities are all-encompassing and include nest site monitoring data, mark-resight studies, mortality observations, and much more. This is revolutionizing the raptor community’s ability to understand ranges, population trends, and real-time threats to raptors at a global scale. GRIN is filling in critical knowledge gaps so that conservation policies and actions can be implemented at timescales meaningful for species’ continued survival.
The Peregrine Fund was founded in 1970 to restore the Peregrine Falcon, which was removed from the U.S. Endangered Species List in 1999. That success encouraged the organization to expand its focus and apply its experience and understanding to raptor conservation efforts on behalf of more than 100 species in 65 countries worldwide, including the California Condor and Aplomado Falcon in the United States. The organization is non-political, solution-oriented and hands-on, with a mission to restore rare species through captive breeding and releases, improve capacity for local conservation, conduct scientific research and environmental education, and conserve habitat. Learn more about The Peregrine Fund.
Experience Gained
This program will provide an excellent opportunity for students to gain real-world experience working within a science-driven conservation organization that values public engagement. Students will work closely with professional researchers at The Peregrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of Prey as we implement the Global Raptor Impact Network (GRIN) and revolutionize how raptor science is conducted and disseminated around the world. View abstracts for student posters presented at the Undergraduate Research Conference 2019:
- Nest Box Characteristics for >3000 American Kestrel (Falco Sparverius) Artificial Nest Sites Registered With the American Kestrel Partnership
- Protocol-Adherence Behaviors of the American Kestrel Partnership’s Citizen Scientists Efforts
Majors and Interests Needed
- Biology
- Environmental Science
- Education
- Computer Sciences
- Data Sciences
- Statistics
Coach Information
Dr. Eric Hayden is Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology and runs the Hayden Lab.
Course Information
VIP 200, VIP 400, or VIP 500.
Full semester course. Choose to enroll in 1 or 2 credits.
Interested in joining this team?
For more information and to request a permission number to register contact Eric Hayden at erichayden@boisestate.edu OR complete this interest form and someone will contact you. Check out this page for tips on contacting a professor.
To register: search by Subject: Vertically Integrated Projects, read the project description to find the right section of VIP 200, 400, or 500. Use permission number, here are instructions Add with a permission number