NRM Graduate Students
Pierce Adams
MS
Major Professor: Dr. Warren Conway
Research Title: High marsh usage and fire history analysis of breeding mottled ducks (Anas fulvigula)
in Coastal Louisiana and Texas
Diego Aviles
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Aaron Norris
Research Title: Precision grazing systems, forages
Leela Barina
MS
Major Professor: Dr. Brad Dabbert
Research Title: Nest ectoparasites in Northern Bobwhite relating to nest abandonment or chick survival
and the affects of supplemental feeding benefiting chicks and insect diversity
Kalin Bayes
MS
Major Professor: Dr. Kerry Griffis-Kyle
Research Title: Assessing habitat quality through amphibian development and habitat selection in the
Sonoran Desert
Raini Bulaclac Labay
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Cooper-Norris
Research Title: Native Grassland Restoration and Bee Demographics on the Texas Sourthern and High
Plains
Catherine Castagnet
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Nathan Gill
Research Title: Mexican grey wolf habitat use in spatially different burnt forests
Adam Cupito
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Clint Boal
Research Title: Non-game avian community response to the effects of prescribed pinyon-juniper thinning
in Fort Stanton, New Mexico
Danielle Deming
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Warren Conway
Research Title: Coyote Population Genetics and Dietary Habits in the Mojave Desert
Haley Ditzenberger
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Blake Grisham
Research Title: Greater Sandhill Crane Population Connectivity as Indicated by Stable Isotopes and
Microsatellites
Bio
Sarah Fonville
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Clint Boal
Research Title: Winter Food Habits of American Kestrels
Bio
Kevin Fryar
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Brad Dabbert
Research Title: Northern Bobwhite nesting ecology and chick survival
Carlos Garcia
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: Roosting ecology of the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) in Louisiana
Owen George
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Scott Collins
Research Title: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Effects of Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) on the Annual Production
of Native Fish Populations
Badri Ghimire
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Nathan Gill
Research Title: Quantitative wood anatomy, plant-fire interactions
Aaron Gray
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Scott Collins
Research Title: Fish Community Responses in a Highly Flow-Regulated Mid-Sized River
Bio
Cienna Hanson
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Jane Rogosch
Research Title: Evaluating resilience and vulnerability of fish assemblage structure to intermittent
flow
Melody Harrington
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Philip Gipson
Research Title: Degradation of Carnivore Scat Under Differing Environmental Conditions
Hayden Hays
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Matthew Barnes
Research Title: Spatial Ecology of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates in Wetlands and Springs
Charles Hoitt
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Carlos Villalobos
Research Title: Nutritional and Reproductive Behavior in Axis Deer
Karen Hondrick
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Warren Conway
Research Title: Mottled Duck and Black Rail Response to Fire and Grazing on the Texas Coast
Trey Johnson
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Brad Dabbert
Research Title: Restoring Northern Bobwhite Populations in the Pineywoods Ecoregion of Texas
Haley Keff
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Brad Dabbert
Research Title: Enhancing Population Dynamics of the Declining Northern Bobwhite through Integrated
Management and Translocation Science in the Rolling Plains of Texas
Madelyn Knauss
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Matthew Barnes and Dr. Stephanie Lockwood
Research Title: Monitoring Mesoamerican Barrier Reef species using environmental DNA (eDNA)
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
Ian Mack II
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Blake Grisham
Research Title: Rio Grande wild turkey habitat and genetic connectivity, disease prevalence, and
survival in the Texas Edwards Plateau Ecoregion
Derek Malone
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Clint Boal
Research Title: Assessing Texas Kangaroo Rat Habitat Management and Population Connectivity
James Morel
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Warren Conway
Research Title: Waterfowl Use and Carrying Capacity of Stock Ponds in Eastern and Central Texas
Amanda Newman
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: Bat species and their presence and distribution throughout Texas
Clint Perkins
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: Ecology of Plains Spotted Skunk
Joseph Richards
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Blake Grisham and Dr. Scott Longing
Research Title: Wild turkeys and invertebrates
Amelia Richardson
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Kerry Griffis-Kyle
Research Title: Sonoran Desert Tortoise's habitat use and connectivity in the border region
Cristina Rios-Blanco
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: Bat ecology, Macroecology, Community ecology
Sadie Roth
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Drs. Kerry Griffis-Kyle and Matthew Barnes
Research Title: Desert Amphibian Reproduction and Disease Exposure in Isolated Desert Waters
Emma Sanchez
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: Diurnal Roosts of Bats on Highway Overpasses
Bio
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
Amaris Shammaa
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Clint Boal
Research Title: Habitat associations, resource partitioning, and community structure of owls at the
Welder Wildlife Refuge
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
Lauren Spjut
M.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Blake Grisham
Research Title: An assessment of fine scale microclimate conditions in Purple Martin artificial
housing and its influence on nest survival
John Stuhler
Ph.D.
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Stevens
Research Title: Ecology of the Texas kangaroo rat (Dipodomys elator)
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
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