William McShea

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Bill McShea is a wildlife ecologist for the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute at Front Royal, Virginia, USA. He received his education at Bucknell University (B.S.), University of New Hampshire (M.S.), and State University of New York at Binghamton (PhD). He has worked at the Front Royal facility since 1986. He is past co-chair and current member of the IUCN Deer Specialist Group, and a member of both the Bear Specialist and Bovid Specialist Groups. He has edited five volumes on wildlife management (deer, oak forests, Asian wildlife, and giant pandas), co-authored a book on deer ecology, and coauthored over 150 scientific publications. He runs several forest-related projects in Virginia and a grassland ecology project in Montana. When not in the USA, Bill currently works in Southeast Asia, Borneo, and China. Bill’s research focuses on the management and diversity of wildlife populations and much of this work involves mammal surveys using camera traps. He is a founding member of eMammal (www.emammal.org), which facilitated citizen science projects using camera traps and displays wildlife data and images through the website and now is founding member of Wildlife Insights (www.wldlifeinsights.org).