Reports and Presentations

Reports:

Presentations:

  • 2021 Modelling the spread of chronic wasting disease in mule deer based on their home range behaviour. 2021 ACTWS Annual Conference – Virtual. 26 March (Xu)
  • 2021 Individual based modelling of Chronic Wasting Disease. 2021 ACTWS Annual Conference – Virtual. 26 March. (Gritter)
  • 2021 Relating risk of direct contact and risk of CWD infection in Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus). 2021 ACTWS Annual Conference – Virtual. 26 March (Dobbin)
  • 2021 Modelling the spread of chronic wasting disease in mule deer based on their home range behaviour. Lewis Lab, University of Alberta. 8 March (Xu)
  • 2020 Landscape heterogeneity and disease. Consequences of Animal Behaviour in Disease Ecology, Edmonton, Alberta. 27 November (Xu)
  • 2020 Modelling the Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease in Mule Deer Based on Their Home Range Behavior. Wang Lab, University of Alberta. 22 September. (Xu)
  • 2020 The Spreading Speed of Chronic Wasting Disease Influenced by Density and Sex Ratio. Lewis Lab, University of Alberta. 9 March. (Xu)
  • 2020 Individual-based Modelling of Chronic Wasting Disease (poster) R.E. Peter Biology Conference, University of Alberta. 4 March. (Gritter)
  • 2020 Seasonal Delineation: Defining Seasons Using Pairwise Movements. CWD Group Meeting, University of Alberta. 24 February. (Dobbin)
  • 2020 Individual-based Modelling of Chronic Wasting Disease. Merrill-Boyce Lab, University of Alberta. 6 February. (Gritter)
  • 2020 Individual-based Modelling of Chronic Wasting Disease. Lewis Lab, University of Alberta. 27 January. (Gritter)
  • 2019 Modelling spread of the CWD in Alberta. CWD Group Meeting, University of Alberta. 2 December. (Smolko)
  • 2019 Analysis of mule deer contacts in a CWD endemic area. CWD Group Meeting, University of Alberta. 21 November. (Dobbin)
  • 2019 Risk of the Chronic Wasting Disease for Deer in Alberta. Merrill/Boyce Lab, University of Alberta. 9 October. (Smolko)
  • 2019 CWD risk and spread models for Alberta, ROC meeting (Genome), Edmonton, Alberta.  30 September (Smolko)
  • 2019 Risk of the Chronic Wasting Disease for Deer in Alberta. CWD Group Meeting, University of Alberta. 23 September (Smolko)
  • 2019 Modelling Chronic Wasting Disease in Mule Deer. Levin Fest 2019, University of Victoria. 15 June (Xu)
  • 2019 Modelling Chronic Wasting Disease in Mule Deer. CAIMS annual meeting 2019, Whistler, BC. 10 June (Xu)
  • 2019 Relating spatial contact metrics to possible transmission routes of CWD. Landscape Ecology Course, University of Alberta. 8 April. (Dobbin)
  • 2017 Chronic wasting disease: where is it leading us? University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC. 24 March. (Merrill)
  • 2017 Chronic Wasting Disease – updating the situation in Alberta. Alberta Prion Research Institute Scientific meeting, Edmonton, AB. 28 Feb. (Merrill)
  • 2016 Chronic wasting disease in Alberta: an update. Alberta Prion Research Institute Scientific Mtg, Calgary, AB 3 Feb. (Merrill)
  • 2015 Experimental harvest for CWD control. AB Prion research Institute, Edmonton, AB, 26 Jan. (Merrill)
  • 2013 Deer and CWD in Alberta. Alberta Prion Research Institute Symposium. Edmonton, 19 Nov. (Merrill)
  • 2012 Connecting the dots: Chronic wasting disease in Alberta’s wild deer. Alberta Innovates and Bio Solutions Impact Innovation Speakers Series with Jay Ingram. Edmonton, AB- 16 May; Calgary, AB-17 May (Merrill)
  • 2012 Modeling CWD in deer management in Alberta. Alberta Fish and Wildlife Research Mtg. Univ. Alberta, Edmonton. 26 Apr. (Merrill)
  • 2012 Predicting the spread of chronic wasting disease in east-central Alberta. Annual Mtg. Alberta Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Medicine Hat, AB 16 Mar. (Merrill)
  • 2012 Decision support models for managing cwd in wild deer populations in Alberta, PRIONET/APRI Joint Scientific Meeting, Toronto, ON. 17 Jan. (Potapov).
  • 2011 Spread of chronic wasting disease: Did mule deer draw the short straw? Annual Mtg. The Wildlife Society, Waikoloa, HI 9 Nov. (Merrill)
  • 2011 Landscape heterogeneity and the spread of chronic wasting disease in east central Alberta. Alberta Chapter, The Wildlife Society. Camrose, AB 13 Mar. (Nobert).
  • 2011 Modeling chronic wasting disease in deer populations. Mathematical Biology Seminar, Univ. Alberta. 24 Jan. (Potapov)
  • 2010 Modeling CWD spread using hunter surveillance data from SK: implications for Alberta. Alberta Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Annual Mtg, Plenary session, Red Deer, AB, 13 Mar.
  • 2010 Risk of CWD in mule deer and white-tailed deer populations in Alberta and Saskatchewan, Alberta Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Annual Mtg, Plenary session, Red Deer, AB, 13 Mar (Merrill)
  • 2010 Modeling deer movements: implications for chronic wasting disease spread in east central Alberta. Alberta Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Annual Mtg, Plenary session, Red Deer, AB 13, Mar (Nobert).
  • 2010 Landscape structure and deer distribution: implications for contact rates and CWD. Alberta Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Annual Mtg, Plenary session, Red Deer, AB 13, Mar (Habib)

Popular Articles:

  • Merrill, E.H., M. Pybus, and M.S. Boyce. 2010. Chronic wasting disease–the big unknown. Alberta Outdoorsman. Fall 2010: 10-12.
  • Nobert, B. E.H. Merrill, M. Pybus and MS. Boyce. 2013. Hit them hard and hit them fast. Alberta Outdoorsman. Fall 2013. 16-18.