Professors Dean Arakaki (electrical engineering) and Marc Horney (animal science), and seven electrical engineering students — Aria Amini, Andrew Fahey, Ernie Lozano, Kevin Nguyen, Zach Numa, Brian Padilla and Basile Scoffie — are working on a project that uses unmanned aerial vehicles to track a small mammal called a Pacific fisher in the Southern Sierra Nevada mountains. The wildlife tracking team, here peering through an anechoic chamber used to test radio signals, is working with the U.S. Forest Service to collect data on the fishers, an elusive member of the weasel family that is considered a “sensitive” species. Photo: Dennis Steers/College of Engineering