Graduate Students
This is a partial list of current graduate students in the W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation.
Personal Summary
Originally from New Mexico, Anna grew up in central Texas hiking, biking, and exploring the outdoors. She attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned a B.S. in biology with a concentration in ecology, evolution, and animal behavior and a minor in primatology. After graduating, she worked as an intern with the National Park Service in Arizona monitoring Mexican spotted owls and bat populations. She is currently pursuing her master's degree at UM with the Charismatic Minifauna Lab and Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and she is a NSF Graduate Research Fellow. Her research is centered around testing survey methodology and modeling occupancy of black billed and yellow billed cuckoos in Montana, and she is interested in exploring research and management questions centered around rare and cryptic species.
Education
B.S. Biology (Ecology, Evolution, and Animal Behavior), The University of Texas at Austin, 2021