Saeideh Esmaeili (former PhD student, UW)
Biography
Saeideh Esmaeili truly is a rennaissance woman of southwest Asian mammals, working on goitered gazelle, Indian gazelle, sand cat, and Asiatic cheetah before completing a superb dissertation on the ecological and socio-economic correlates surrounding the migrations of a globally-endangered equid, the onager.
Channeling John Wayne (or Jeff Bridges, if you prefer), Saeideh personified true grit: she once navigated a financial transfer between five(!) countries to support the first GPS collaring effort of an ungulate in her home country of Iran. At a postdoc at Colorado State University, she now partners with the IUCN Equid Specialist Group, employing her talents in movement modeling to conserve equids across the globe.
Current position: Postdoctoral Assistant, Colorado State University
Recent Publications
Esmaeili, S., M-R Hemami, and J.R. Goheen. 2019. Human dimensions of wildlife conservation in Iran: assessment of human-wildlife conflict in restoring a wide-ranging endangered species. PLOS One 14:e0220702. PDF
Esmaeili, S. and 48 coauthors. 2021. Body size and digestive system shape resource selection by ungulates: a cross-taxa test of the Forage Maturation Hypothesis. Ecology Letters 24:2178-2191. PDF
Esmaeili, S., M-R Hemami, P. Kaczensky, K.A. Schoenecker, S.R.B. King, B. Shahriari, C. Walzer, and J.R. Goheen. Rainfall reduces the potential for competitive suppression of a globally endangered ungulate by livestock. Biological Conservation 292:110476. PDF
