NRM Graduate Students
Kathryn Brautigam
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Blake Grisham
Research Title: Addressing threats to landscape sustainability: using land-use and climate change
scenarios to model future spatial and population ecology of the mid-continent population
of Sandhill crane on the Southern High Plains
Matt Buchholz
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Blake Grisham and Dr. Warren Conway
Research Title: Disease/Population ecology of free-ranging axis deer
Carlos Garcia
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: Roosting ecology of the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) in Louisiana
Juan Garcia-Cancel
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Robert Cox
Research Title: Range expansion and effects of buffelgrass (Cenchrus ciliaris) in native communities in semi-arid lands in Texas and Puerto Rico
Charles Jacobi
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Robert Cox
Research Title: Assessing presence of the spot-tailed earless lizard (Holbrookia lacerata) and its
habitat in Southwest Texas, emphasis on factors that influence detection
Trey Johnson
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Brad Dabbert
Research Title: TBA
Bio
Garret D. Langlois
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: The social network structure and roost selection of a large, abundant, neotropical
bat species (Artibeus lituratus)
Colton Laws
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Philip Gipson
Research Title: Re-evaluation of artificial escape dens and effects on swift fox populations in Northwestern
Texas and Northeastern New Mexico
Joshua Luft
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Brad Dabbert
Research Title: TBD
Bio
Derek Malone
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Clint Boal
Research Title: Avian Community Response to Coastal Prairie Restoration
Brice Martin
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Kerry Griffis-Kyle
Research Title: TBA
Bio
Gary Mizer
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Warren Conway
Research Title: Influence of Agriculture Production and Anthropomorphic Structures on Pronghorn Movements
and Diet Composition
Cindy Moberly
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Cade Coldren
Research Title: Effects of spatial and temporal dynamics of vegetation on water balances of watersheds
in the Edwards Plateau of Texas: a simulation modeling evaluation
James Morel
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Warren Conway
Research Title: Waterfowl Use and Carrying Capacity of Stock Ponds in Eastern and Central Texas
Andrea Norton
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Scott Collins
Research Title: TBD
Bio
John Oakleaf
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Philip Gipson
Research Title: Population Dynamics and Reintroduction Characteristics of Mexican Wolves in Arizona
and New Mexico
Cristina Rios-Blanco
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: Bat ecology, Macroecology, Community ecology
Bailey Robertory
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Scott Collins
Research Title: TBD
Bio
Sadie Roth
M.S.
Major Professor: Drs. Kerry Griffis-Kyle and Matthew Barnes
Research Title: Desert Amphibian Reproduction and Disease Exposure in Isolated Desert Waters
Lucas Schilder
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Clint Boal
Research Title: Changes in Avian and Plant Community Composition and Structure Following Prescribed
Thinning in Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands
Hong Seomun
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Phillip Gipson/Dr. John Baccus
Research Title: Diets of rare and endangered carnivores determined through non-invasive techniques
Manuel Silva
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Blake Grisham
Research Title: Influence of Woody Vegetation Patterns on Scaled Quail Demographics
Sharon Smythe Valverde
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Warren Conway and James Cain (NMSU)
Research Title: Resource Selection and Habitat Use by Elk in Response to Interspecific Competition,
Predation Risk, and Forest Restoration in North-Central New Mexico
John Stuhler
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: Ecology of the Texas kangaroo rat (Dipodomys elator)
Erin Stukenholtz-Bohlender
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: Population characteristics of the feral pigeon and avian community structure within
an urban landscape
Veronica Urbanczyk
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Brad Dabbert
Research Title: Factors that Influence Northern Bobwhite Chick Survival
Katheryn Watson
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Clint Boal
Research Title: Migration Characteristics, Habitat Associations, and Risk of Wind Turbine Encounters
of Adult and Juvenile Swainson's Hawks (Buteo swainsoni)
Rowdy White
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Brad Dabbert
Research Title: Vegetation influences on Northern bobwhite home range selection
Michael Whitson
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Warren Conway/Dr. Blake Grisham
Research Title: Use of Moist-Soil Management Techniques for Waterfowl in Fallow Rice Fields on the
Upper Texas Coast
Holly Wilson
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: Use of Highway Structures by Bats in the Trans-Pecos Ecoregion of Texas: Inventory
and Assessment of Relative Contributions of Characteristics of Landscape, Habitat
and Highway Structures in Determining Day-Roost Utilization
Jacob Wright
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Matthew Barnes
Research Title: Using gut content analysis to examine the ecological niche of a non-native, marine
goby species (Gobiosoma bosc) in the Concho River near San Angelo, Texas
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