Thirty-nine student research projects were featured on Monday (Apr. 28) during Texas Tech's Department of Natural Resources Management's 4th Annual Research Day at the Texas Tech Dairy Barn.
“NRM’s annual Research Day provides a valuable venue for our students to debut their finest and most innovative research, receive feedback, interact collegially and foster a culture of research excellence and professional scholarship,” said Richard Stevens, Interim Chair and Caesar Kleberg Endowed Professor of Wildlife Conservation.
Graduate Poster Finalists
- 1st Place: Carsten Groos (Graduate) Population Density and Habitat Associations of White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus Virginianus), Axis Deer (Axis Axis), and Aoudad (Ammotragus Lervia) In the Edwards Plateau Region of Texas
- 2nd Place: Diego Aviles (Graduate) Grazing Evaluation of Alternative Annual Forage Options for Water Limited Environments
- 3rd Place: Christopher Carter (Graduate) Response of Mycoplasma Ovipneumoniae Viability to a Freshwater Environment
Undergraduate Poster Finalists
- 1st Place Hannah Adams (Undergraduate) Evaluating the Body Condition of Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii virginalis) In Mountain Streams with and Without Non-Native Brown Trout (Salmo trutta).
- 2nd Place: Kale Humphries (Undergraduate) Increased Salinity Suppresses Diversity of Colonizing Invertebrates in a Field Mesocosm Experiment
- 3rd Place: Jaden Casas (Undergraduate) Tracking Avian Range Shifts: Using Breeding Bird Surveys to Explore Northward Expansion in Response to Climate Change in the Southwestern United States
3MT Graduate Finalists
- 1st Place: Amanda Newman (Graduate|Three-Minute Thesis) Effects of Roadways on Bat Activity and Distribution in East Texas
- 2nd Place: Amelia Richardson (Graduate|Three-Minute Thesis) Occupancy of Sonoran Desert tortoises in Southern Arizona
Among other NRM students presenting research posters or presentations were:
Graduate Posters
- Pierce Adams (Graduate) Assessing the Impact of Fire on Breeding Mottled Duck Habitat Selection
- Philip Baracatto (Graduate) Standards-Based Restoration in the Great Basin
- Katja Bastiaens (Graduate) Experimental Approaches to Improve Survival and Conservation of The Swift Fox (Vulpes Velox)
- Eden Brody (Graduate) Comparing Land Use Thresholds in Great Plains Fish Assemblages Across Hydrologic, Anthropogenic, and Climatic Variables
- Emily Brown (Graduate) Morphophysilogical Effects of Wind on Drought Stressed Forage Sorghum
- Jamie Czap (Graduate) The Use of Bridges as Day Roosts by Bats (Order Chiroptera) In East Texas
- Badri Ghimire (Graduate) Response of Ponderosa Pine (Pinus Ponderosa) Trees to Varying Fire Intensities
- George Gyan (Graduate) Assessing the Impacts of Artificial Beaver Dam Analogs on Water Quality and Streambed Sediment After Mining and Post-Fires
- Seth Hawke (Graduate) Spatial Ecology of Gray Wolves in Southcentral Alaska
- Matthew Hewitt (Graduate) A Framework for Identifying the Optimal Survey Design for Estimating Black Bear Density Using Simulated SECR models
- Karen Hondrick (Graduate) Winter Bird Occurrence and Land Cover Change Along the Texas and Louisiana Coast
- Derek Malone (Graduate) Novel Survey Methodology for one of North America’s Most Elusive Mammals
- Alice Mathew (Graduate) Coexistence Dynamics of Grassland Birds and Mesocarnivores in Brush Pile Habitats
- Corin Olivas (Graduate) Genetic Relatedness and Influence of Male Plumage Variability on Snowy Plover (Anarhynchus Nivosus Nivosus) Subpopulations in Texas, New Mexico, And Oklahoma
- Angela Patrick (Graduate) RAMS: Using Agent-Based Models to Understand Bighorn Sheep Respiratory COmplex Transmission
- Katherine Pearson (Graduate) Diel Activity Overlap of Native and Exotic Species in the Southern Cross Timbers and Prairies of Texas
- Shaelyn Rainey (Graduate) Initial Trends in Avian Diversity on a Juniper/Mesquite Encroached Grassland
- Madison Ramsey (Graduate) Impacts of Imidacloprid Exposure on Ring-Necked Pheasant Growth and Survival
- Olivia Strong (Graduate) Effects of Stocking Density on Forage Utilization, Plant and Soil Health in the Southern High Plains of Texas
Undergraduate Posters
- Julianne Bullock (Undergraduate) Seasonal Shelter Use and Activity Patterns in the Sonoran Desert Tortoise
- Tatum Dorman (Undergraduate) Exploring Mountain Lion Diets in West Texas
- Dalton Frazier (Undergraduate) Tracking Avian Range Shifts with eBird in a Changing Climate
- Camylle Fung (Undergraduate) Changes in Select Bird Ranges and Abundances with Regards to Climate Change
- Jake Gowdy (Undergraduate) Novel application of the Folin-Ciocalteu Method to Estimate Phenolic Compounds in Bighorn Sheep Fecal Samples
- Madison McGinnis (Undergraduate) Assessing Presence of Microplastics in Mississippi Kites
- Lilian Prescott (Undergraduate) Educating Future Entomologists: Developing Learning Resources for the Texas FFA Entomology CDE
- Katherine Rollefson Undergraduate) Evaluation of Invasive Risk Models Using EDNA
- Kevin Rowland (Undergraduate) Use of Remote Sensing for Determining Differences in Residential Water Use in the City of Lubbock, Texas.
- Cassidy Wheeler (Undergraduate) Can Genetics Explain Gi Stasis in Rabbits?
3MT Presentations
- Sukhveer Singh Bhullar (Graduate|Three-Minute Thesis) Climate Smart Practices to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture
- Catherine Castagnet (Graduate|Three-Minute Thesis) Comparing the efficacy of non-invasive techniques to detect Mexican gray wolves
- Adam Cupito (Graduate|Three-Minute Thesis) Avian Community Responses to Prescribed Thinning in Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands: A Seven-Year Study in South-Central New Mexico
CONTACT: Richard Stevens, Interim Chair and Caesar Kleberg Endowed Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Department of Natural Resources Management, Davis College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Texas Tech University at (806) 834-6843 or richard.stevens@ttu.edu
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