Monet Gomes

California grown | AU Deer Lab PhD candidate studying white-tailed deer sexual selection🦌 | BS Bio @Fresno_State🐶, MS Wildlife Sci @AuburnU🦅🐅 | she/her

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

My name is Monet. I study the physiology of w/sexual selection in deer. Being a woman in a male-dominated field(esp a game species, when you werent raised a hunter) comes w/challenges, but I’m proud to help pave the way for more diversity in sci
#unapologeticallyfeministscientist

[Amanda Cheeseman @AECheeseman]

Please RT!
🦌🦨🐁🔥🔥
Join our lab! MS/PhD opportunity to study how mammals respond to large-scale prescribed fire.
Starting Spring '25.
Deadline: Oct 7.

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

@DrKellyHDunning Congratulations!! You are so deserving of it and are amazing!

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

Thank you!!

[Kelly Heber Dunning @DrKellyHDunning]

Please RT! Recruiting 2 fully funded MS positions: human dimensions of bottle nose dolphins and sea turtles, close work w/ state agency. If you have experience in creel surveys, fisheries, conservation, policy, this is for you: https://t.co/nCXZXZ6Fes
Jan start, apps due 10/31

[Conservation Governance Lab @AU_Conservation]

🚨Our lab currently has a position open for a PhD Assistantship to study Climate Resilience and Oyster Conservation at Auburn University for a Fall 2022 start date.🚨

If you have any questions please feel free to DM us.

Please RT to share!

https://t.co/sbLUur06tu

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

@LynnVonHagen1 Congratulations!! You did a great job presenting and your research is so interesting! 🐘💙

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

Students all did a great job on their first “live” captures! And I loved getting to relay the ways we as scientists always take in information to make sense of the (wild) world around us!

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

Doing some science outreach today with #BreakthroughBirmingham the high school students get to go find a bear in the woods with radio telemetry!

[Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation @OKWildlifeDept]

Listen,

bear spray
DOES NOT
work like bug spray.

We would like to not have to say that again.

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

Thank you @AU_Conservation @DrKellyHDunning and @CC_conservation for sharing this! I loved getting to talk about and hopefully raise some awareness about how wildfires have impacted people in the Central Valley!

[Conservation Governance Lab @AU_Conservation]

PhD student @MonetAGomes created a podcast discussing how the California wildfires impact local residents. Check out her podcast on our website!

⬇️🔥⬇️

https://t.co/jAMOdGSzKE

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

@lukanegoita @CC_conservation

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

Thanks for everyone helping us collect data! We are having a good field day!

[Conservation Governance Lab @AU_Conservation]

Thanks to the Auburn Deer Lab and PhD student @MonetAGomes for inviting us on a big shed hunt today!

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

@AU_Conservation @lord_kasen Awesome job @lord_kasen !! Congrats!!

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

@sabine_mcbailey Congratulations!! You are so awesome!

[Kelly Heber Dunning @DrKellyHDunning]

Thanks to @MonetAGomes for talking to students in my Conservation Planning class about careers in wildlife conservation!

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

Thanks for coming out!! Your help and enthusiasm are welcome any time! 👏🏽🦌💙

[Conservation Governance Lab @AU_Conservation]

Special shout out to @MonetAGomes who’s doing awesome research on deer sexual selection for joining us to celebrate today!

[Conservation Governance Lab @AU_Conservation]

Happy International Day of Women and Science Day! 👩‍🔬We’re honored to have some of the most amazing women in this lab doing coral reef policy and wildlife management research! @DrKellyHDunning @ecologicalmanda @CC_conservation @sabine_mcbailey 🎉#WomenInScience #WomenEmpowerWomen

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

@ConorPulls It could definitely be possible! They can get breakage especially if they’re peak reproductive age and really competing for mating. But it could also maybe be he shed it and just hadn’t shed the other one, injured the pedicle antler base previously and never regrew a normal one

[Monet Gomes @MonetAGomes]

Any #deer nerds know what balding around the pedicle of the #antlers may be? This pic shows a potential infected spot but it was at least 2/3 the circumference of both antlers (other one didn’t have scab like this). I haven’t ever seen this and it just looked like bare skin.