The University of Arizona

Seafha Blount

Seafha Blount
Area of Expertise: 
Wildlife conservation and management, conservation biology, Native American/Tribal natural resource management
Advisor(s): 
John L. Koprowski
Academic Degree(s)
BS 2005, Missouri Southern State University, Joplin, Missouri
Contact Information
cemewehl@email.arizona.edu
1 520-624-6439

School of Natural Resources, 325 Biosciences East
Tucson, AZ 85721

Curriculum Vitae: 
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In the summer of 2004, I interned with the Yurok Tribe Environmental Program in California. Throughout the summer, I assisted with various water quality studies along the Lower Klamath River, within the Yurok reservation.

 

 

 

 

 

After graduating from Missouri Southern State University in 2005, I participated in a summer internship with the Environmental Careers Organization in conjunction with US Fish and Wildlife Service in King Salmon, Alaska. I assisted with a fisheries project using sonar and gillnetting to investigate species abundance and density of resident fish in the Ugashik lakes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I came to the University of Arizona as a Master's student in 2006 and began my current research involving the long-term response of the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel to post-fire conditions. This subspecies is endemic to Mount Graham in southeastern Arizona and represents the southernmost population of red squirrels in North America. I am analyzing data from areas of various burn severity on Mount Graham, such as midden census data, radio-telemetry homing locations to determine home range size of individuals, and vegetation characteristics surrounding occupied and unoccupied middens.