This is the fifth and final episode in a project management series I set up to help leaders like you with the terminology and applications of project management for conservation research and projects. Project management is a lot like the scientific process is similar to… instead of having a hypothesis to test you have a set of objectives to accomplish. The best part of project management is that there is an end to the project. It’s the defining feature of a project - All projects have a final due date. If you are one of those people who love accomplishing something then project management might be for you because as you know finishing something feels really good! You can find the project management series by going to episodes 023, 029, 036, and 038 on the projects for wildlife.com website. I created this series because to address a fundamental flaw of conservation research and something that holds us back from accomplishing what we are trying to achieve and this is it.. … it’s that recommendations from conservationist research get stuck in papers and never find their way out of a paper and actually implemented. As you may already know, many times these research papers are full of amazing mitigation recommendations that were proposed and agreed upon by all the stakeholders... and then nothing happens after the paper is published. There are lots of reasons why, and really this area is not well studied… although it happens ALL the time. It’s my belief that we can use project management techniques and tools to take those recommendations out of the paper and implement them in a way that will benefit humans and wildlife. Instead of creating the dream… let’s make the dream reality and we can do it with project management. This series focused on human-wildlife conflict, coexistence, and projects that have taken different mitigations and applied them for the benefit of both humans and wildlife. From lions, to wolves, bears, and now elephants you have seen how a large variety of people from government to academia and from rancher to advocate there are a lot of people involved in finding solutions. It’s my hope that over the course of the last four episodes that the use of project management tools and strategies can easily be used take recommendations in a paper and apply them and grow ideas and collaborations. This is my favorite phase of project management, the closure. All projects should end with a celebration!
Episode 037 - Mitch Silverstein from Surfrider San Diego Chapter Shares How He Found His Tribe
Episode 036 - Case Study: Project Lifecycle Phase 3 - Project Execution - A Wolf Project
Episode 035 - Dr. Manuel Varela talks about ecological benefits and impacts to microbes and their relationship to wildlife
Episode 034 - Case Study: Key Factors that Drive Human-Wildlife Conflict
Episode 033 - CritterFacts launches after Cara Loeb plays a joke on William Colaw
Episode 032 - Joe Pietersen takes strategies from rugby and applies it to rhino conservation
Episode 031 - Dr. Emily Young is leading environmental leadership programs in San Diego
Episode 030 - Dr. Greg Rouse finds new species of marine invertebrates in the depths of the sea
Episode 029 Case Study: Human-Lion Conflict (Phase 2 Planning)
Episode 028 - Tommy Hough a local San Diego radio host starts a political based environmental club to help wildlife and tackle climate change issues
Episode 027 - Ashley Blacow-Draeger Highlights Oceanas Deep Sea Coral Reef Project
Episode 026 - Melissa Marquez saves the sharks and promotes women in science
Episode 025 - Mike Veale improves the livelihood of wildlife park rangers in Africa and beyond
Episode 024 - Dr. Vanessa Pirotta captures whale snot to assess Humpback Whale health
Episode 023 - Project Management 101 - For Successful Wildlife Projects
Episode 022 - Dr. Sarah Peterson studies elephant seals and shares details about her journey to become a marine biologist
Episode 021 - 4 Steps to focus and achieve on your goals
Episode 020 - AeonForOcean is one child bringing ocean education to many
Episode 019 - The 3 Stages of Conservation Burnout & How to prevent it from happening to you
Episode 018 Suzanne Asha Stone stops the persecution of wolves with non-lethal management tools
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