A Guide to The American Black Bear

A Guide to The American Black Bear

We are partnered with David Kocka of Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) to create a new way to monitor mother bear behaviors. Our team’s main goal is to minimize the time the VDGIF researchers spend locating the bears. The current collars use...
What the Tech?

What the Tech?

Initial Approach The initial direction for animal tracking was to utilize a drone to detect ultra high frequencies to determine the general location of bears previously collared by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Our original designed drones were...
Field Testing in Hudson, Florida

Field Testing in Hudson, Florida

On April 12, 2018, two team members from Veliger, Biology major Eamon MacDonald and Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communications major Catie Willett, traveled alongside JMU Graduate Student Bailie Lavan and Industrial Design major Skylar Southard to Hudson, Florida...