Dan Grear Former Graduate Student Department of Wildlife Ecology University of Wisconsin-Madison

Education:  

1998-2002, BS Wildlife Ecology and Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2003-2006, MS Wildlife Ecology and Zoology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

                                                                                                   
Research Interests:
•Demographic patterns of disease
•Relationship between social structure and disease transmission
•Population genetics                                                                                               

 

Past Research:

 

Demographic patterns of chronic wasting disease infection

 

My research examines the role that social organization of female white-tail deer plays in the probability of CWD infection in Wisconsin.  Female white-tailed deer live in a rigid social structure based on family relationships.  I believe that this rigid social structure and high density of white-tailed deer in southern Wisconsin will provide a way to better characterize how CWD spreads between female deer in the same social group and between different groups.

 

Advisor: Michael D Samuel

 

 

Link to results: Demographic patterns of CWD prevalence

Link to: Role of social groups in CWD transmission

 

 

Publications:

 

Grear, D.A.  2006.  Chronic wasting disease infection patterns in female white-tailed deer related to demographics, genetic relationships, and spatial proximity of infected deer in southern Wisconsin. M.S. thesis.

 

Grear, D.A., M.D. Samuel, J.A. Langenberg, and D. Keane.  2006.  Demographic patterns and harvest vulnerability of chronic wasting disease infected white-tailed deer in Wisconsin.  Journal of Wildlife Management 70:546-553.

 

Presentations and Posters:

 

Grear, D.A., M.D. Samuel, K.T. Scribner, B.V. Weckworth, and J.A. Langenberg.  2006.  Influence of genetic relatedness and spatial proximity on CWD transmission among female White-tailed deer.  4th International Conference on Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease, State College, Pennsylvania, May 18-20.  (Poster)

 

Grear, D.A., M.D. Samuel, B. Weckworth, K.T. Scribner, and J.A. Langenberg. 2005. Chronic wasting disease transmission in white-tailed deer female social units. The Wildlife Society 12^th Annual Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, September.

Grear, D.A., M.M. Conner, M.D. Samuel, and M.W. Miller.  2005.  Epidemiology of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging deer: common factors that drive transmission.  Second International Chronic Wasting Disease Symposium, Madison, Wisconsin, July 2005.

Grear, DA, MD Samuel, DO Joly, JA Langenberg, MJ Verdon, and D Keane.   Demographic patterns of chronic wasting disease infection in a high-density white-tailed deer population.  The Wildlife Society annual conference.  Calgary, Alberta.  September 2004.

 

Grear DA, and MD Samuel.  Demographic infection patterns and CWD research in Wisconsin.  Michigan State University, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Seminar.  East Lansing, MI.  July 2004

 

Grear DA, and MD Samuel.  Demographic patterns of CWD prevalence in a high density white-tailed deer population.  Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources CWD research meeting.  Madison, WI.  March 2004.

 

Grear, DA, MD Samuel, DO Joly, JA Langenberg, MJ Verdon, and D Keane.  Demographic patterns of CWD prevalence in a high density white-tailed deer population.  Wildlife Disease Association annual meeting.  Saskatoon, SK.  August 2003.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: August 17, 2007