Byron Buckley, Ph.D.

Biography

I was born and raised in central Mississippi, where I spent most of my time hunting, fishing and exploring the outdoors.  I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife Science from Mississippi State University in 2003.  After graduation, I held multiple wildlife technician jobs working with various mammalian and avian species throughout the United States. In 2005, I began working in the biomedical field at the University of Arizona breeding mice for the Arizona Cancer Center research team.  In my down time, I volunteered for different wildlife research projects such as bighorn sheep capture, mountain lion capture/tracking and Harris hawk capture/tracking.  While volunteering for these projects, I decided it was time to return to school and further my education in the wildlife field.  I obtained a Master of Science degree in Wildlife Science at Texas Tech University in the spring of 2013 working on the effects of supplemental feeding of bobwhite quail.  I will continue working with quail by examining various genetic aspects of bobwhite and scaled quail for my PhD.