{"id":231,"date":"2020-08-25T20:50:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T02:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/jdsal\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2026-08-12T08:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T14:19:40","slug":"jon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/jdsal\/people\/jon\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Salerno"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/jdsal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/127\/2020\/08\/jon-300x300.png\" alt=\"Jon\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" title=\"Jon\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\t<p>jonathan.salerno@colostate.edu<\/p>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tJon Salerno\t<\/h3>\n\t<p>Associate Professor, Co-Director for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/centerforhumancarnivorecoexistence\/\">Center for Human-Carnivore Coexistence<\/a><\/p>\n\t<p>I&#8217;m an ecologist, and I study people. My lab asks questions about how and why humans make decisions, particularly the ones in response to environmental changes. I&#8217;m interested mostly in what decision-making means for biodiversity conservation and natural resource management.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s science layered throughout this site. On a more personal note, I grew up in Oregon, like wood as an aesthetic, and prefer things that are old. I&#8217;m not a domestic cat person, though make one exception for Ponce de Leon, pictured below. For fun, I generally like doing things for which there are much more efficient and commercial-scale methods, like growing food in my yard, baking bread, and fermenting things.\u00a0 I also like running and being outside.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fortunate to get to work in my favorite places, the American West and a few parts of Africa. If I had to be specific, I&#8217;d say the McKenzie River watershed and the southern highlands spilling off into the Ruaha-Rungwe, Tanzania. The photos below are a smattering of other places or moments I often feel like revisiting.<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/jdsal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/127\/2020\/08\/untitled-shoot-200826-87-5.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87 5\" height=\"447\" width=\"670\" title=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87 5\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/jdsal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/127\/2020\/08\/untitled-shoot-200826-87-4.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87 4\" height=\"683\" width=\"1024\" title=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87 4\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/jdsal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/127\/2020\/08\/untitled-shoot-200826-87-2.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87 2\" height=\"605\" width=\"908\" title=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87 2\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/jdsal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/127\/2020\/08\/untitled-shoot-200826-87-3.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87 3\" height=\"665\" width=\"997\" title=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87 3\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/jdsal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/127\/2020\/08\/untitled-shoot-200826-87.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87\" height=\"505\" width=\"758\" title=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/jdsal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/127\/2020\/08\/untitled-shoot-200826-87-2-2.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87 2 2\" height=\"683\" width=\"1024\" title=\"Untitled Shoot 200826 87 2 2\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>jonathan.salerno@colostate.edu Jon Salerno Associate Professor, Co-Director for the Center for Human-Carnivore Coexistence I&#8217;m an ecologist, and I study people. My lab asks questions about how and why humans make decisions, particularly the ones in response to environmental changes. I&#8217;m interested mostly in what decision-making means for biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. 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