Maxwell (Max) Talley

Max employs a combination of olfactory field assessments and couch-time to better understand the canine dimensions of common environmental science issues. 

Expertise

• Non-discriminant cheese gobbling
• Discriminant scent adoption: nothing but guano and dead stuff
• Small animal pursuit, in particular cats, squirrels, birds, lizards, gophers
• Master of sit, roll-over and shake
• Chomping and squeaking of toys
• Grumpy vocal responses to human males, in particular, tall men with hats and beards

Research

Max's research seeks to answer pressing canine socio-environmental questions, including:

• Pocket gophers in an age of climate change: Snacks or toys?
• Does fish trophic level influence the stench of rotting meat and subsequent suitability for rolling in?
• Does seabird trophic level influence the stench of guano and subsequent suitability for rolling in?
• Lizards, lizards everywhere until they aren't: Unraveling the mystery of where lizards go once they dart under a shrub. 
• And the age old existential question...Who's a good boy?  (Preliminary results reveal that I am!)

Education and Outreach

Max's training includes time with Baja Dog Rescue and both home-schooling and paws-on training at California Sea Grant to learn the ways of proper doggy research etiquette. He is a naturally skilled outreach specialist having mastered the "sniff and lick" approach to assessing and connecting with both canine and human subjects alike.

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This photo of me working hard.