Sensitivity and Specificity Gone Wrong with Courtney Brown

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6c9R4ufQH1vZUsguRcinNg?si=eW37RZNCRMKAl_Hgx2nuOg In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Courtney Brown from Einstein K9 about search and rescue, handler scent discrimination, and sensitivity and specificity. Links Mentioned in the Episode:  Science Highlight: ⁠Conservation detection dogs: A critical review of efficacy and methodology⁠ ⁠Problem Solving with Kayla Fratt⁠ Where to …

Wolf, Not Marten (Milk, Not Water) with Sarah Stremming

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/k9conservationists/episodes/Wolf–Not-Marten-Milk–Not-Water-with-Sarah-Stremming-e2lff4f Kayla sits down with Sarah Stremming to discuss how she has been handling Barley’s tendency to generalize to other species while working on her wolf scat detection project in Alaska. This is a nerdy one, hang on! Transcript (AI-Generated) Sarah Stremming  00:09 Hey everybody. This is a crossover episode …

Multiple Alerts to Discriminate Between Targets with Jens Frank

In this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla speaks with Jens Frank from the Scandinavian Working Dog Institute about teaching dogs multiple alerts to discriminate between targets.  Science Highlight: ⁠Relationships between personality of human–dog dyads and performances in working tasks ⁠ Links Mentioned in the Episode:  None Where to find Jens: ⁠University …

Odor Discrimination Wrapup and Personal Updates

For this episode of K9 Conservationists, Kayla wraps up our discrimination series with a Q&A and provides some updates. Science Highlight: None this week  Questions asked: From Megan: From Janna Links Mentioned in the Episode:  None  You can support the K9 Conservationists Podcast by joining our Patreon at patreon.com/k9conservationists. K9 Conservationists …

Odor Discrimination Part 6: Generalization with Paul Bunker from Chiron K9

For our final episode of our odor discrimination series, Kayla talks with Paul Bunker from Chiron K9 about generalization and discrimination.   Science Highlight: None this week Links Mentioned in the Episode:  None Where you can find Paul: Website | Instagram  You can support the K9 Conservationists Podcast by joining our Patreon at patreon.com/k9conservationists. K9 …

Science Highlight: Nontarget Species Behavior and Scat

This week’s science highlight concerns something many K9 Conservationists are very familiar with: scat! The study, “How Behavior of Nontarget Species Affects Perceived Accuracy of Scat Detection Dog Surveys” was published in Nature’s Scientific Reports in 2018. The authors Karen E. DeMatteo, Linsey W. Blake, Julie K. Young, and Barbara …