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Michigan State University  - Ph.D. Student in Wildlife and Fisheries - Completed 2025

Project Title: Spatio-temporal patterns of brown bear (Ursus arctos) harvest and denning, Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska, USA

Jamshid Parchizadeh is a Research Scientist quantifying the ecosystem services of sustainable wildlife harvests. Born and raised in Tehran, he moved to Mazandaran Province in northern Iran in 2003 to complete his BS degree in General Biology. In 2009, Jamshid traveled to Pune, India to obtain his MS degree in Zoology. He returned to Iran in 2012 and has conducted research on Iran’s large carnivores (i.e., Asiatic cheetah, Persian leopard, and brown bear). He completed his PhD at MSU in 2025 on the ecology and management of brown bears on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

Spatio-temporal patterns of brown bear (Ursus arctos) harvest and denning, Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska, USA

I have over 14 years of experience working on human-wildlife conflicts, prey-predator interactions, and ecology of wildlife, particularly large carnivores.