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Max Smith
Portland, OR 97219
oregonmax@gmail.com
Education
M.S. Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 73019 (2005)
B.S. Wildlife Biology, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812 (2000)
Employment
USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station and Oklahoma Biological Survey
111 E Chesapeake Norman, OK 73019
Research associate (12/05-present)
Salary: $2500/month
40 hrs/week
Supervisor: Deborah M. Finch (505) 724-3671
As part of several multi-agency studies of riparian ecology, I am monitoring survival, density, and
recruitment of riparian plants and animals in New Mexico and Oregon. Duties include construction of
habitat use and population projection models using ARCGIS; preparing manuscripts for publication in
peer-reviewed journals; conducting data entry and analysis using Excel, SAS, and Program MARK; and
making habitat management recommendations to numerous agencies.
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Salary: $1800/month
30 hrs/week
Supervisor: David Brandt (701)-253-5500
Duties included leading an independent trapping team to capture sandhill cranes at migration staging areas
along the Platte River in south central Nebraska; banding, measuring, bleeding and attaching radio and
satellite transmitters to captured birds; and surveying agricultural practices at study sites.
Montana Power Company (now known as PPL Montana) Ryan Dam, Great Falls, MT (406)-
533-3400
Gardener and maintenance worker (1998)
Salary: $1500/month
40 hrs/week
Duties included mowing and maintenance of public parks and maintenance of hydroelectric generation
equipment at Ryan Dam
Montana Power Company (now known as Northwest Energy) Butte, MT 59701 Maintenance
helper (1997)
Salary: $1000/month
40 hrs/week
Supervisor: Greg Payne 406-497-2488
Duties included maintenance of several office buildings at MC headquarters in Butte, MT, mowing and
other gardening work, and moving office equipment
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Volunteer Activities
Reviewer, Journal of Wildlife Management, The Condor, and Forest Ecology and Management
(2006-present)
2005 George Miksch Sutton Scholarship in Ornithology presented by the Sam Noble Oklahoma
Museum of Natural History
2004 George Miksch Sutton Scholarship in Ornithology presented by the Sam Noble Oklahoma
Museum of Natural History
2004 University of Oklahoma Graduate Student Senate Conference and Creative Activity Grant
2003 University of Oklahoma Graduate Student Senate Research and Creative Activity Grant
2003 George Miksch Sutton Scholarship in Ornithology presented by the Sam Noble Oklahoma
Museum of Natural History
2000 Phillip L. Wright Research Grant Award presented by the Missoula Five Valleys Chapter
of the Audubon Society
Publications
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Smith, D.M., D.M. Finch, and D.L. Hawksworth. 2009. Black-chinned hummingbird nest site
selection and nest survival in response to fuel reduction in a southwestern riparian forest.
Condor 113 (4) in press.
Smith, D.M., D.M. Finch, C. Gunning, R. Jemison, and J.F. Kelly. 2009. Post-wildfire recovery
of riparian vegetation during a period of water scarcity in the southwestern U.S. Fire
Ecology 5: 85-102.
Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly, and D.M. Finch. 2007. Avian nest box selection and nest success in
burned and unburned southwestern riparian forest. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:
411-421.
Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly, and D.M. Finch. 2006. Cicada emergence in southwestern riparian
forest: influences of wildfire and vegetation composition. Ecological Applications 16(4):
1608-1618.
Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly, and D.M. Finch. 2006. Influences of disturbance and vegetation on
abundance of native and exotic detritivores in a southwestern riparian forest.
Environmental Entomology 35(6): 1525-1531.
Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly, and D.M. Finch. 2006. Wildfire, exotic vegetation, and breeding bird
habitat in the Rio Grande bosque. In: Aguirre-Bravo, C.; Pellicane, Patrick J.; Burns,
Denver P.; and Draggan, Sidney, Eds. 2006. Monitoring Science and Technology
Symposium: Unifying Knowledge for Sustainability in the Western Hemisphere. 2004
September 20-24; Denver, CO. Proceedings RMRS-P-42CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 990 p.
Oral Presentations
Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly and D.M. Finch. 2009. Response of riparian-nesting birds to wildfire in
the southwestern U.S. 2009 Cooper Society annual meeting. Tucson, AZ.
Smith, D.M. and D.M. Finch. 2009. Climate change and southwestern riparian-nesting birds:
lessons from the Middle Rio Grande. 2009 Cooper Society annual meeting. Tucson, AZ.
Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly and D.M. Finch. 2006. Effects of wildfire on nest selection and nest
success of cavity nesting birds along the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico. 2006 North
American Ornithological Conference. Veracruz, Mexico.
Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly and D.M. Finch. 2004. Short-term responses by plants, arthropods, and
birds to wildfire in a tamarisk-invaded ecosystem. 2004 Monitoring Science and
Technology Symposium. Denver, CO.
Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly and D.M. Finch. 2004. Response of annual cicadas to wildfire in a
Southwestern riparian forest. 2004 Ecological Society of America annual meeting.
Portland, OR.
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Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly and D.M. Finch. 2004. Effects of wildfire on birds in a southwestern
riparian ecosystem: preliminary results. 2004 Southwestern Association of Naturalists
annual meeting. San Antonio, TX.
Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly and D.M Finch. 2003. Wildfire, cicadas, and birds in the Middle Rio
Grande Bosque, New Mexico. 2003 Oklahoma Ornithological Society annual meeting.
Sherman, TX.
Poster Presentations
Smith, D.M., D.M. Finch, and D.L. Hawksworth. 2009. Response of Black-chinned
Hummingbirds to fuel reduction and wildfire along the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico.
2009 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, NM.
Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly and D.M. Finch. 2008. Biology of cottonwood and saltcedar in wildfire
sites along the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico. 2008 Association of Fire Ecology
annual meeting. Tucson, AZ.
Smith, D.M., D.F. Finch, and D.L. Hawksworth. 2008. Nest site selection and nest survival in a
large-scale fuel reduction experiment. 2008 American Ornithologists Union annual
meeting. Portland, OR.
Smith, D.M., J.F. Kelly and D.M. Finch. 2004. Effects of wildfire on vegetation, arthropods, and
birds along the Middle Rio Grande, New Mexico. 2004 Festival of the Cranes Research
Exhibit. Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, NM.