Adam Clifford

Wildlife Ecologist

Adam is a wildlife ecologist familiar with a range of general, game, and special-status wildlife species in aquatic, riparian, and upland habitats ranging from desert to alpine environments. He has been involved in multi-year and short-term research projects focusing on behavioral characteristics or habitat relationships of species including the greater sage-grouse, prairie chicken, ptarmigan, golden eagles, songbirds, several species of bats, mule deer, and several others.

He has experience with numerous habitat, fish, and wildlife sampling and surveying techniques including: vegetation surveys, rangeland assessments, electrofishing, gill netting, nest surveys, songbird point counts, bird-call broadcasting, aerial wildlife counts, radio-telemetry, scat surveys, animal track surveys, bird and mammal trapping, and remote camera sampling.

Adam also has extensive experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing software. He earned a GIS Certification and has performed a wide range of spatial analyses on data from many different sources. He is experienced with vegetation and landcover classification, as well as habitat modeling.

As a wildlife ecologist with Cirrus, Adam has worked on projects involving writing NEPA documents, developing study plans for special-status wildlife, GIS analysis, coordination with agency specialists, habitat assessment and survey preparation, field surveys for special-status wildlife, and preparation of survey reports.

Adam’s other interests include rock climbing and working as a member of Search and Rescue.