I am back on the road again. This week I am in Bozeman, MT investigating a large outbreak in wildlife. I am here through the end of the week working with a local wildlife veterinarian and his colleagues. Today I arrived in Bozeman around 415 pm. I was supposed to get in at noon, but a mechanical problem kept us grounded in the OC long enough to miss my connection in Salt Lake City, UT. I had to spend about 3 1/2 hours in UT, but used the time to get caught up on some lecture notes (yes... school is back in session too) and some writing. In addition to the field work we have been doing this summer, I am in the final throws of a paper for a NATO Science for Peace and Security conference that I attended in Tbilisi, Georgia earlier in the summer. I have been developing models of how disease distributions might differ from the present day in the year 2050, using some data from the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change and ecological niche modeling.
Upon arriving, the wildlife veterinarian was very helpful and quick to share details of the situation. I was given a series of maps and some environmental data on the ranch we will be visiting and we were able to compare this to some of the ecological niche modeling I have done in the past for the U.S.
The photos here show some of the gear I am preparing for tomorrow's field investigation and some of the documentation we have been reviewing this evening, and a view of the "Big Sky".
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