Graduate Students
Eric Atkinson (PhD)
Advisor: Matt Carling
Landscape and taxonomic drivers of multi-pathogen infections across a wild avian community.
Kathan Bandyopadhyay (PhD)
Advisor: John Koprowski
Mesocarnivores in the spotlight: deciphering India's small carnivore guild
Emily Davis (MS)
Advisor: Joe Holbrook
The ecology of canid species—wolves, coyotes, and red foxes—within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Exploring spatial overlap, dietary niche partitioning, and interspecies interactions among these three sympatric carnivores to develop key metrics for understanding species coexistence and trophic dynamics in a complex ecosystem.
Lindsey Gapinski (PhD)
Advisor: Anna Chalfoun
Exploring mechanisms underlying declines in western forest birds.
Katherine Gura (PhD)
Advisor: Anna Chalfoun
Variation in habitat selection, movements, and demographics of an irruptive, facultative species
Ajay Karki (PhD)
Advisor: John L. Koprowski
Conserving mega-carnivores (tiger & leopard) in the Anthropocene.
Leo Malingati Khasoha (PhD)
Advisor: Jacob Goheen
Role of dietary specialization and dispersal in mantaining species abundance and occupancy in a small mammal community
Lindsay Martinez (MS)
Advisor: Matthew Kauffman
Evaluating moose demography and habitat use in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming
Kaitlyn McKnight (PhD)
Advisor: William Fetzer, Lauren Shoemaker
Drivers of ecosystem stability in Great Lakes fish communities
Nicholas R Minor (PhD)
Advisor: Matt Carling
Sampling Across Space and Time: An Investigation of Demographic History in Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena) Populations
Lindsey Mitchell
Advisor: John Koprowski
Exploring the niche partitioning of the various squirrel species in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary in Malaysian Borneo and evaluate their potential as indicators of rainforest condition in this threatened ecosystem.
Douglas Kamaru Njeri (MS)
Advisor: Jacob Goheen
Linkages between mutualism breakdown, landscape change, and predator-prey dynamics in a human-occupied savanna
Maycie Schultz (PhD)
Advisor: Qian-Quan Sun
Analyzing Alzheimer's Disease Through Transcriptomics Profiling
Emily Shertzer (PhD)
Advisor: Anna Chalfoun
Full life-cycle effects of energy development on sagebrush-obligate songbirds
Christina Sluka (PhD)
Advisor: Merav Ben-David & Sarah Benson-Amram
Evaluating the effects of urban and rural environements on raccoon (Procyon lotor) cognition and skull morphology
Rachel Smiley (MS)
Advisor: Kevin Monteith
Interactions of nutrition, immune function, and disease response in bighorn sheep
Jordan Von Eggers (MS)
Advisor: Bryan Shuman (Geol) Amy Krist
Using aeDNA in sediment cores to assess the effect of fish introduction on aquatic communities and biodiversity in alpine lakes
Lauren Wetterau (MS)
Advisor: John Koprowski
Effects of red squirrel middens on biodiveristy and species occupancy in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Luke Wilde (PhD)
Advisor: Matthew Kauffman
Luke studies the longest mule deer migration on record — the Red Desert to Hoback — to understand the benefits of migration and the impacts of human activity.
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.