Matt Giovanni

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Matt is currently a Ph.D. student in applied ecology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, and School of Natural Resources. His research there is focused on western meadowlark and other grassland passerine breeding ecology in the Sandhills prairie region of central Nebraska. He would like to thank his co-advisors, Dr. Walter Schacht and Dr. Larkin Powell, for the opportunity and mentorship.

He received a M.S. in wildlife science at Texas Tech University (TTU) during which he obtained the Ferruginous Hawk and Swainson's Hawk footage for his breeding ecology and diet research. Matt would like to acknowledge those who supported his research and his education, including the TTU Department of Natural Resources Management, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the U.S.G.S. Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and his advisor there, Dr. Clint Boal.

Matt obtained his B.S. in biology from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, which he says is a great place to live and attend school, and he grew up north of Madison, Wisconsin, in corn and soy country. He would like to thank his family and friends for their consistent support and humor! Please note: All videos posted here are the property of the USGS Texas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit or the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We are grateful to IBC for the opportunity to distribute the videos for scientific information. Please contact Matt Giovanni for permission before downloading videos from this site, so that we can document the use of the videos. Videos from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln were gathered and prepared for distribution by a team of researchers which included Matt Giovanni, Larkin Powell, Walter Schacht, Scott Groepper, and Mitch Reineke, and were supported by the UNL UCARE program.
IBC Personal statistics:

• First material posted on 24 February 2006
• Number of videos posted: 16 covering 4 species (0.04%)
• Number of photos posted: 0 covering 0 species (0%)
• Number of sounds posted: 0 covering 0 species (0%)