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Hello, I'm Nate Petersen

After five years of moving small amounts of liquid around for a biotech startup in CT, I needed a change. My first field position was in 2006 as a seasonal volunteer at Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge in Missouri. Seventeen years later, I'm still in the field, and I wouldn't have it any other way. After years of seasonal and on-call employment, Zuzax Field Biology LLC allows me more flexibility to pursue projects that interest me, share my experience and expertise with satisfied clients, and continue doing what I love.

Past Employers

Past Field Experience

  • Bird Conservancy of the Rockies

  • Cachuma Operations and Maintenance Board

  • Friends of the Rio Grande Nature Center

  • Natural Heritage New Mexico

  • Northern Arizona University

  • NPS - Santa Monica Mountains NRA

  • Oregon State University

  • Southern Sierra Research Station

  • SWCA

  • University of Alaska Fairbanks

  • University of California Berkeley

  • USFWS - Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge

  • Utah State University

  • Wyoming Natural Diversity Database

Zuxax Field Biology LLC Clients

  • University of New Mexico - Natural Heritage New Mexico

  • Utah State University (Upcoming - Spring 2023)

  • Pinyon Jay presence/absence and colony/nest searches

  • Mexican Spotted Owl presence/absence and nest location surveys

  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo presence/absence surveys

  • Breeding bird point count surveys throughout the Western United States

  • Preble's meadow jumping mouse mark recapture surveys using Sherman traps

  • Giant kangaroo rat trapping (PIT-tagging, ear tagging, measurements) for home range and cattle exclosure study

  • Nelson's antelope squirrel mark recapture surveys

  • Northern Goshawk call-playback surveys

  • Gunnison's prairie dog presence/absence surveys for NM State monitoring program

  • Western Burrowing Owl surveys and nest monitoring

  • Wyoming pocket gopher trapping and range delineation

  • Wyoming toad surveys

  • Null/peak radio telemetry (Least Bittern, Pinyon Jay and moose)

  • Urban encroachment and habitat fragmentation study using drift fences and pitfall traps

  • Line transect and coverboard monitoring for herps

  • Non-invasive surveys for predators (scat and camera trap)

  • Migratory fish traps targeting coastal rainbow trout (steelhead)

  • Spotlight surveys for predators and lagomorphs

  • Special status plant surveys (Clover's cactus, Scheer's beehive cactus, Wright's waterwillow)

  • Pre-construction and post-construction bird/bat wind farm surveys

  • General biology compliance surveys for oil/gas/transmission etc.

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Contact

Questions? Need additional information? Please get in touch. If I can't help you with your project, I might know someone who can.

nate@zuzaxfieldbiology.com

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