Steve has conducted research for over 20 years at the Zoological Society of San Diego,
the University of California, Davis, and the Smithsonian National Zoological Park and
Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI). He initiates and conducts projects in the
broad discipline of reproductive physiology and endocrinology, and at SCBI he
provided clinical veterinary care for animals.

Dr. Monfort co-coordinates one of the world’s largest and most productive wildlife endocrinology laboratories, with basic and applied research aimed at helping to conserve rare species. He also has experience in using semen collection, cryopreservation, artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization to augment ex situ breeding. He is particularly interested in cervids and bovids, and major reproductive research efforts have focused on the Eld’s deer and scimitar-horned oryx.

Dr. Monfort is co-founder of an in situ conservation program aimed at conserving Eld’s deer in Burma, and he heads the Sahelo-Saharan Interest Group with a mission of conserving aridlands antelope and their North African habitats.