B&C Fellow - Jamshid Parchizadeh

Michigan State University - Wildlife Conservation - PhD student - Projected to Graduate 2025 Project Title: Brown Bear Denning and Harvest on the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska, USA

I am an Iranian wildlife biologist and was born in Tehran, on June 28th, 1985. I spent all of my childhood and youth in Tehran, and then moved to Mazandaran Province in the north of Iran in 2003 to achieve my bachelor’s degree in “General Biology”. In 2009, I moved to Pune in India to achieve my master’s degree in “Zoology”. I then returned to Iran in 2012 and started working on Iran’s large carnivores (i.e., Asiatic cheetah Acinonyx jubatus venaticus, Persian leopard Panthera pardus saxicolor, and brown bear Ursus arctos).

Brown Bear Denning and Harvest on the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska, USA

My research interests include large carnivore ecology, large carnivore-human and predator-prey interactions, and large carnivore management and conservation. I am working on brown bears on Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska, for my PhD dissertation.