[TN-Bird] Coley hired as naturalist at Bristol

From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: 1-A TN-Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:20:49 -0400
        Alex Coley has been hired as a naturalist and nature center manager
at Bristol
Tennessee's Steele Creek Park Nature Center.
        The 35-year-old native of Gate City, VA began work Dec. 20.
        He comes to the nature center from Hiwassee College in Tennessee
where he was an
adjunct faculty member for one semester,  teaching freshman biology.
       Alex  earned a B.S. in wildlife management at Virginia Tech with a
minor in biology in l990.
He was awarded a M.S. in wildlife management at the University of Tennessee
Knoxville in
1995 and has worked  towards a doctorate in wildlife management at UT.
        In 1997 he joined the Florida Game and Fish Commission (now known as
the Fish
& Wildlife Conservation Commission) as a biologist at Lake Wales Ridge
Wildlife and
Environmental Area.
        He was in private business at Bartlett near Memphis from 1999 to 2003.
        At Virginia Tech his teaching assistant was Dr. Dave Buehler who is
now on the Forestry, 
Wildlife and Fisheries faculty at UT Knoxville.   Buehler and his students
conduct considerable
bird research.
        Alex's master research at UT was in Black Bear population dynamics
and he studied
under Dr. Mike Pelton.  He also studied bears in his doctorate program.
        He and his wife (Tracy) have two sons, ages 11 and 7.  Tracy is a
dental assistant
and she and the boys will remain at their home in Knoxville until the end of
school.
        He fills a position formerly held by Kevin Hamed who is now a full
time member of
the biology faculty at Virginia Highlands Community College in Abingdon, VA.

Let's go birding.....

Walllace Coffey
Bristol, TN




        


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