Wildlife Biology

Tavis Forrester, PhD

Guest Speaker, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station

'Variability in vital rates and their influence on population growth in mule and black-tailed deer'

Phil Douchinsky

PhD Proposal

'Genomics of hybridization and migration in the Montana Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout'

Andy Boyce, PhD

Guest Speaker, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

'Grassland bird ecology and conservation in a landscape with nearly-lost keystone species.'

Richard Chandler, PhD

Invited Guest Speaker, University of Georgia

Leah Rensel

PhD Update Talk

'Estimate Contact Rates in Deer Mice: The Good, the Bad, and the Flammable'

Autonomous Aerial Systems Office

Guest Speaker, Autonomous Aerial Systems Office, University of Montana

'Applications of Drones in Wildlife Research'

Brenna Cassidy, PhD 

Guest Speaker, Colorado Parks & Wildlife

'Large Carnivores in the Modern West: Colorado Wolf Restoration'

IN PERSON ONLY

Morgan McDonnell

PhD Proposal

'Stabilizing axes of coexistence in recovering apex predators: Osprey and Bald Eagle dynamics in Yellowstone.'

Julia Galloway, PhD

Guest Speaker, University of Montana, School of Visual and Media Arts

The Endangered Species Project

Hilary Zaranek

Guest Speaker, Range Rider and Rancher

TBD

Bruce Montgomery

MS Proposal

'Grizzly Bear Denning'

Kelsey Cronin

Q&A Panel for Undergraduates

4/6

(off-seminar)

Lilia Membrino

MS Proposal

'Using Camera Traps to Estimate Ungulate Population Size in Northwest Montana'

ROOM: FOR 106

Maddy Rowland

PhD Update Talk

'Ecological Katabasis: an update on my journey into the underworld of Peromyscus parasitism.'

Kaitlyn Vega

PhD Update Talk

TBD

4/15

(off-seminar)

Nelle Jenkins

PhD Update Talk

'Just How Stressed Are Wild Deer Mice'

TIME: 9 AM

ROOM: FOR 206

Matt Webster

PhD Update Talk

'Beavers from space: leveraging remote sense data to assess beaver impacts in prairie streams'

Maddy Guimond

MS Proposal

'Linking host, pathogen and environment: A multi-model framework for white-nose syndrome defense in hibernating bats'

Brianna Lipp

Thesis Defense

'Social Identity and Wildlife: A Literature Review and Experimental Test of Identity Threat and Conspiracy Beliefs'

Andrei Dinu

Thesis Defense

'Mammal Community Responses to Human Disturbance and Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx) Density in the Romanian Carpathians'

4/27

(off-seminar)

Julia Trautmann

MS Proposal

'Multi-Scale Waterfowl-Wetland Models to Improve Conservation Planning in the Prairie Pothole Region'

TIME: 11 AM

ROOM: FOR 305

Landon Magee

PhD Proposal

'Blackfeet Bison Reintroduction: Evaluating Habitat Selection, Interspecies Interactions, and Demographic Patterns in a Novel Landscape'

TIME: 11 AM

ROOM: CHCB 131

4/30

(off-seminar)

Heather Brown

MS Proposal

'Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) Diet, Resource Selection, and Landscape Genomics in Montana'

TIME: 2 PM

ROOM: CHCB 131

Anna Baize

Thesis Defense

'Understanding and Prioritizing Bear Attractant Securement at Community and Individual Levels'

Sunny Domschot

Dissertation Defense

'From Environment to Population Dynamics: Integrating physiology, morphology, and demography in a montane migratory bird'

5/5

(off-seminar)

Sattie Fisher

Thesis Defense

'Analyzing elk and deer interactions to identify the impact of wild horse presence on the Yakama Indian Reservation'

TIME: 10 AM

ROOM: FOR 305

Dillon Sapena

MS Proposal

'The Breeding Biology and Survival of Southern White-tailed Ptarmigan in a Warming Alpine'

TIME: 2 PM

ROOM: FOR 305

Kat Garrett

MS Defense

'Optimizing camera trap sampling for abundance estimation using animal movement behavior'

TIME: 1 PM

ROOM: FOR 106