Company Profile
Raptor Research Center
Company Overview
The Raptor Research Center (RRC) operates in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boise State University located in Boise, Idaho. The RRC and the Dept. of Biological Sciences collaborate to pursue common interests through research, education, and conservation, especially regarding raptors (birds of prey) and their ecosystems.
The Raptor Research Center administers support from the state legislature for the Master of Science in Raptor Biology program. These state-appropriated funds are used largely to provide teaching assistantships and research support to graduate students and to faculty associated with the Raptor Biology graduate degree program.
The RRC also conducts grant-based research. There are temporary and permanent professional staff members employed under such grants and cooperative agreements. In 1990, Boise State University entered into a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, and recently the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center - Snake River Field Station (SRFS). These agreements provide for diverse collaboration toward the cooperators’ mutual interests.
The RRC also provides support to the Idaho Bird Observatory located in Boise, Idaho. Additionally, The Peregrine Fund, Inc. provides support toward graduate student research and RRC operations. The goal of these collaborations is to further accomplish the cooperators’ respective missions as they relate to biology, ecology, conservation, and education.
In recent years, the scope of work by the RRC has broadened to include a greater variety of species and more diverse problems and questions. RRC’s research, education and conservation objectives are met with support from significant cost share/challenge grant projects, and cooperative agreements.
Examples of projects include:
· Student research of basic and applied nature.
· Research with state and federal natural resource agencies and bureaus.
· Projects with nongovernmental organizations.
· Projects with international partners.
· Technical assistance, support, and training.
· Collaboration with the USGS to maintain the Raptor Information System World Wide Web. This is a customized world wide web page that allows users to query a data base containing nearly 50,000 keyword bibliographic entries on birds of prey, conservation and ecological topics.