[Bristol-Birds] New Steele Creek Naturalist
- From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: 1-A Bristol-Birds <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:07:07 -0400
Alex Coley has been hired as the new naturalist and nature center
manager at Bristol
Tennessee's Steele Creek Park Nature Center.
The 35-year-old native of Gate City, VA has been on the job for a
week and is busy
becoming familiar with the position.
He comes to the nature center from Hiwassee College in Tennessee
where he was an
adjunct faculty member for one semester, teaching freshman biology.
Alex is a 1986 graduate of Gate City High Schoo and earned a B.S. in
wildlife
management at Virginia Tech with a minor in biology in l990. He was awarded
a M.S.
in wildlife management at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 1995 and has
completed most of his work towards a doctorate in wildlife management at UT.
In 1997 he joined the Florida Game and Fish Commission (now known as
the Fish
& Wildlife Conservation Commission) as a biologist at Lake Wales Ridge
Wildlife and
Environmental Area.
He was in private business at Bartlett near Memphis from 1999 to 2003.
In the spring of 1998 he was a volunteer at Kingsport Bays Mountain
Park, working
in trails maintenance under Dave Taylor and helping as an interpreter with
the park's
Otters.
At Virginia Tech his teaching assistant was Dr. Dave Buehler who now
teaches wildlife
management at UT Knoxville. Buehler's conducts considerable bird research.
His master research at UT was in Black Bear population dynamics and
he studied
under Dr. Mike Pelton. He also studied bears in his doctorate program.
While at UT he conducted research for The Nature Conservancy using
cameras to
determine wildlife usage of culverts under I-40 near the north end of the
Great Smoky
Mountains National Park.
He and his wife (Tracy) have two sons, ages 11 and 7. Tracy is a
dental assistant
and she and the boys will remain at their home in Knoxville until the end of
school. She
is formerly from Kingsport and a graduate of Sullivan South High School.
Alex was a star athlete at Gate City where he was a finalist for the
prestigious Gene
"Pappy" Thomas award presented each year by the Bristol Herald Courier. The
award
goes to the best all-around student, citizens and athlete in Northeast
Tennessee and
Southwest Virginia.
He was a two-year starting quarterback and linebacker for the Gate
City Blue Devils
Southwest District Football Champions. He was starting point guard on the
school's
basketball squad and a first baseman and pitcher in baseball.
Alex has been an outdoorsman all of his life and his biology field
is mainly with
mammals.
His father is retired from the engineering department of Holston
Army Ammunitions
Plant at Kingsport and his mother is a homemaker.
He fills a position formerly held by Kevin Hamed who is now a full
time member of
the biology faculty at Virginia Highlands Community College in Abingdon.
Let's go birding.....
Walllace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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