ABS - IGERT Students
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ABS NSF-IGERT Trainees • ABS Associated Students • ABS Affiliated Students • ABS Alumni
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ABS NSF-IGERT Trainees
The following students have been selected to receive National Science Foundation funding and are completing the ABS Doctoral Certificate program.
Elizabeth F. Daut Dept. of Veterinary Pathobiology (Advisor: Brightsmith) Research Focus: Wildlife disease ecology; conservation medicine; effect of wildlife trade and other anthropogenic activities on infectious diseases in Latin American wildlife; wildlife rehabilitation in developing countries
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 Katherine Dennis Dept. of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Sciences (Advisor: Stronza) Research Focus: Community-based conservation, natural resource management, conservation education
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 Dan Fitzgerald Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Winemiller) Research Focus: Community ecology of floodplain rivers; freshwater conservation
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 Pablo Granados-Dieseldorff Dept. of Geography (Advisor: Heyman) Research Focus: The integration of fishery science, oceanography, marine geography, and conservation biology to approach small-scale fisheries ecology and management in the southern Mesoamerican Reef.
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 Zachary Hurst Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management (Advisor: Kreuter) Research Focus: Agroecology, landscape ecology, human-environment interactions, community ecology
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 Craig Hutton Dept. of Geography (Advisor: Brannstrom) Research Focus: Human-environment interactions in production landscapes; conservation social science; land-use and land-cover change in the Gran Chaco
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 Nick Jacobsen Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Science (Advisor: Stronza) Research Focus: Mammalian carnivore ecology and conservation; human-environment interactions; conservation social science
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 Audrey Joslin Dept. of Geography (Advisor: Jepson) Research Focus: Human-environment interactions; integrated conservation and development; Amazonian studies
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 Dhananjaya Katju Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Science (Advisor: Kyle) Research Focus: Human dimensions of natural resources; land use and land cover change in biodiversity hotspots; political ecology of protected area management
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 Mike Petriello Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Science (Advisor: Stronza) Research Focus: Conservation Social Science, Human-Wildlife Interactions, community-based conservation, human environmental attitudes, conservation behavior, conservation education
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 Katie Roach Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Winemiller) Research Focus: Food web and fisheries ecology of floodplain rivers
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 Anna Santos Dept. of Geography (Advisor: Brannstrom) Research Focus: Human-environment interactions, environmental governance and affects on human livelihoods and conservation of natural resources, protected area effectiveness, community conservation efforts, aquatic resources, Brazil and Latin America
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 Chris Schalk Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Fitzgerald) Research Focus: Community ecology, landscape ecology, and conservation of the amphibians and reptiles of the Gran Chaco
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 David Toledo Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management (Advisor: Kreuter) Research Focus: Determining the socio-economic and ecological effects of using prescribed fire to control woody plant encroachment in grassland and savanna ecosystems
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 Mike Treglia Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Fitzgerald) Research Focus: Effects of anthropogenic activities on reptile habitat preferences and populations
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 Margot Wood Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Lacher) Research Focus: Ecology, tropical mammals, conservation science, population dynamics in fragmented protected areas
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 Jackie Ziegler Dept. of Geography (Advisor: Heyman) Research Focus: community-based conservation, marine wildlife tourism, sustainability, natural resource management
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ABS Associated Students
The following students have elected to complete the ABS Doctoral Certificate program.
 Emma Gómez Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Lacher) Research Focus: Community ecology, landscape ecology, plant-animal interactions and conservation corridors
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 Adam Landon Dept. of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences (Advisor: Kyle) Research Focus: Human dimensions of wildlife, recreational uses of wildlife and fisheries resources, natural resource management
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 Rosaleen March Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management (Advisor: Washington-Allen and Moore) Research Focus: Landscape Ecology; Biogeography; Climate change impacts and range shifts.
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 Nicole Smolensky Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Fitzgerald) Research Focus: Community ecology and conservation biology of herpetofauna; direct and indirect effects of bushmeat harvest on herpetofauana in Cameroon, Africa
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 Carena J. van Riper Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences (Advisor: Kyle) Research Focus: Recreation carrying capacity; sense of place; park and protected area management; perceptions of climate change impacts
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 Gabriela Vigo Trauco Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Lacher) Research Focus: Ecology and natural history of wild psittacines. Effects of behavioral, genetic and ecological factors in reproductive strategies and reproductive success of wild macaws and its implications to conservation of the species and their ecosystems. Conservation biology, conservation and restoration genetics, social science.
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 Fiona Wilmot Dept. of Geography (Advisor: Brannstrom) Research Focus: Coastal communities of the Caribbean and how their interactions with wider scale social, economic and political processes might impact local biodiversity conservation outcomes in a changing world
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ABS Affiliated Students
The following students are active participants in ABS activities, courses and events.
 Leigh A. Bernacchi Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: T. Peterson) Research Focus: Environmental communication and democratic processes for local land management, especially a community-based planning effort around the federally endangered Whooping Crane (Grus americana)
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 Bibiana Correa Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Winemiller) Research Focus: Ecology and evolution of frugivory in Neotropical fishes
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 Rosa Leny Cuellar Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Fitzgerald) Research Focus: Community Management of wildlife by indigenous people in Bolivia
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 Adriana Méndez-Jiménez Dept. of Geography (Advisor: Heyman) Research Focus: Oceanographic features that influence fish migration and distribution and human-environment interactions in coastal environments
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 Carmen Montaña Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Winemiller) Research Focus: Assemblage structure, trophic ecology, ecomorphology, and convergence of fishes in neotropical and temperate floodplain rivers
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 Chouly Ou Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Winemiller) Research Focus: River food webs, ecology of floodplain rivers, sustainable freshwater fisheries, and conservation of biological diversity in Southeast Asia
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 Gabriela Sosa Dept. of Ecosystem Science and Management (Advisor: Rogers) Research Focus: Restoration Ecology - Accessing the effectiveness of prescribed fire as a tool to restore a degraded rangeland ecosystem in West Texas
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ABS Alumni
 Krista Adamek
MS 2010 - Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Lacher)
Research Focus: Conservation of macaws in the Amazon; movement patterns, seasonal variation, and determining habitat and minimum area requirements
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 Amanda L. Bentley
MS 2011 - Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Science (Advisor: Schuett)
Research Focus: Human impacts on natural resources; human-wildlife interaction; functions of private land for public recreation and environmental stewardship
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 Zach Culumber First ABS NSF-IGERT Graduate PhD 2011 - Dept. of Biology (Advisor: Rosenthal)
Research Focus: Ecological genetics and evolutionary genetics of sexual selection, maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations, effects of anthropogenic disturbance to the environment and the evolutionary consequences for populations
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 Carter Hunt PhD 2009 - Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Science (Advisor: Stronza)
Research Focus: Cross-cultural analysis of community participation in ecotourism; Private reserve networks in Nicaragua; Conservation social science
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 Joseph Mbaiwa PhD 2009 - Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Science (Advisor: Stronza)
Research Focus: Community-based natural resource management in Botswana; cross-cultural analysis of community participation in ecotourism
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 Allison Pease PhD 2010 - Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (Advisor: Winemiller)
Research Focus: Community ecology of Mesoamerican cichlid fishes; patterns of resource use, niche overlap, and coexistence of cichlid communities
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 Fernanda Pegas PhD 2009 - Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Science (Advisor: Stronza)
Research Focus: Sea turtle conservation in Praia do Forte, Brazil; Cross-cultural analysis of community participation in ecotourism; Conservation social science
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 Justin Taillon PhD 2011 - Dept. of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Science (Advisor: Jamal)
Research Focus: Identification of Volunteer Tourism Motivations, Eco-Tourism, Sustainable Tourism, Pro-Poor Tourism, and Green Hotels
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