Rick Engeman Records ---
Scope and Contents
The Rick Engeman Records (NWRC 0043) consists of materials dated 1972 to 2017, with the bulk falling from 1990 to 2010. This is a large collection (16 LF) that highlights Rick’s 40-year career (1979-2019) with the DWRC/NWRC, where he worked on monitoring, indexing, and the economics of wildlife damage management for a variety of species.
Materials from Rick's work with the Statistical Services Unit dominate this collection, including projects he worked on with the Bird Damage, Chemical Development, Mammal Damage, Predator Control, and Technical Services Units, as well as his work on International projects and work with cooperators. Also included are a number of his publications dated 1979 to 2014. The subjects best represented in this collection are avian predator control, invasive species such as feral swine and brown tree snake, animal damage to trees, sea turtle predation, and methods to monitor wildlife populations. Material types in this collection include correspondence, memorandums, reports, research data, publications, computer printouts, and maps.
Dates
- 1972 - 2017
- Majority of material found within 1990 - 2010
Biographical / Historical
Richard M. Engeman was born June 4, 1951 in Iowa City, Iowa, but was raised in Denver, Colorado. He earned a B.S. in mathematics and a M.S. in statistics from Colorado State University. He also earned a doctorate from the University of Colorado’s School of Medicine.
Rick was hired by the Denver Wildlife Research Center (predecessor to the NWRC) as a statistician in 1979. Over the next forty years, Rick worked on monitoring, indexing, and the economics of wildlife damage management for a variety of species including carnivores, rodents, feral swine, endangered and threatened species, as well as invasive reptiles. His areas of expertise included statistics, experimental design, population monitoring, distance sampling, and plotless density estimation.
During his career with the Center, Rick authored/coauthored more than 400 journal and conference papers and worked in a number of temporary duty stations and foreign countries including Australia, Mexico, Tasmania, Morocco, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Guam. Rick was also president of the local American Statistical Association chapter and was very involved in their conferences. Rick retired from the NWRC in the spring of 2019.
Extent
16 linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The Rick Engeman Records (NWRC 0043) are arranged into eleven series. Series I, III, V, VI and VII contain subseries.
Series I: Birds, 1991-2010
Subseries 01: Avian Predator Control on the Colombia River, WA, 1998-2009
Subseries 02: California Bird Work, 1993-2006
Subseries 03: Goose and Gull Management, Chicago, IL, 2009-2015
Subseries 04: Steller’s Eiders Nesting near Barrow, AK, 1991-2010
Series II: Chemical Development, 1973-2012
Series III: Cooperators, 1992-2016
Subseries 01: Eglin Air Force Base, FL, 1992-2016
Subseries 02: Florida State Parks, 1994-2015
Series IV: International Work, 1986-2011
Series V: Invasive Species, 1985-2017
Subseries 01: Brown Tree Snake, 1994-2008
Subseries 02: Feral Swine, 1985-2017
Series VI: Mammal Damage, 1972-2016
Subseries 01: Animal Damage to Trees in Washington, 1968-2011
Subseries 02: Mammal Damage, Misc., 1986-2009
Subseries 03: Vole Damage in California, 2008-2016
Series VII: Predator Control, 1984-2017
Subseries 01: Feral Cats, 2002-2017
Subseries 02: Sea Turtle Predation, 1984-2015
Subseries 03: Traps, 1994-2011
Subseries 04: Wolves, 2010-2016
Series VIII: Publications by Rick Engeman, 1979-2014
Series IX: Statistical Services Requests, 1981-1996
Series X: Technical Services, 1982-2010
Series XI: Oversized Documents- Computer Printouts/Data/Maps, 1981-2005
Legal Status
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Repository Details
Part of the National Wildlife Research Center Archives Repository