Gabe Tappe

Wildlife Summer Camp Program, NC State University, 2023 (Supervised by Drs. Christopher DePerno, Lara Pacifici, Jeffrey Buckel, Gregory Cope):

Passive wildlife sampling techniques including camera traps, scent stations, and coverboard sampling; active wildlife sampling techniques using dip nets, opportunistic and times searches; PIT tagging of snakes and turtles; seine netting to analyze aquatic populations; fish marking via caudal fin clipping and visible implant elastomer tags; public and private land management for game and non-game species; mesocarnivore trapping including catch poles, species specific traps, and foothold traps; wildlife trapping and removal around airports using pole traps and bal-chatri traps; wildlife trapping techniques including canon nets, rocket nets, air cannon nets; NC songbird identification; songbird mist netting; mist net lane set-up and maintenance; bird banding; NC plant identification; use of fire as a habitat management tool

• NC Wildlife Trapper Education course completion
• 2024 Ocean Advocacy Workshop completion
• CITI (Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative) Program. IRB Training
• FF2 Wildland FirefighterTraining Program (in progress)

• NRWD (Neuse River WaterDogs) Project sampling
• Wake Nature Preserve turtle trap monitoring
• Gateway Nature Preserve invasive species identification and removal

Dr. Christopher S. DePerno, Ph.D.

Professor, FWCB Coordinator and Liaison

Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

North Carolina State University

College of Natural Resources

Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

3227 Jordan Hall Addition

919.513.7559 (office)  919.334.8935 (cell)

csdepern@ncsu.edu

Aaron Parker, Director of Manufacturing

Essex Inc.

790 East 21st St.

Winston Salem, NC 27105

336.761.1112 (office)  336.582.9232 (cell)

Sam Stephens

336.254.8363