Students and Alumni

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests:  Phylogenetics, biogeography, diversification processes, sedges

Advisor:  Spalink

Marine Biology

Interests: Conservation biology, behavioral ecology, wildlife biology

Advisor:  Schulze

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Host-parasite interactions, disease ecology, vector-borne diseases

Advisor:  Light

Veterinary Integrative Biosciences

Interests: Ecotoxicology, avian disease ecology, conservation biology

Advisor: S. Hamer

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Hybridization, evolution, molecular genetics, population genomics

Advisor:  Hurtado

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Ornithology, ecophysiology, urban ecology, conservation biology

Advisor: Grace

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Metagenomics, microbiomics, transcriptomics, genomics, and molecular evolution

Advisor: Voelker

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Conservation biology (particularly the conservation of endangered species and threatened ecosystems), biodiversity, primatology, tropical ecology, islands and insular systems

Advisor:  Gondor

Veterinary Pathobiology

Interests: Ornithology, community ecology, conservation biology

Advisor: Brightsmith

Entomology

Interests:  Insect behaviour, phenotypic plasticity, nutrition

Advisor: Behmer

Anthropology

Interests: Primate behavioral ecology, ethnoprimatology

Advisor: Gursky

Geology & Geophysics

Interests: Nesting ecology, territoriality, and vocal communication of open-cup nesting songbirds; acoustic ecology; spatial ecology

Advisor: Raymond

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Tropical forest ecology, plant community ecology, ecological restoration

Advisor: Veldman

Anthropology

Interests: Primate behavioral ecology

Advisor: Keene

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Conservation biology, ornithology, ecophysiology

Advisor: Grace

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Testudines hybridization (turtle hybridization) and community dynamics

Advisor: Fitzgerald

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Herpetology, biogeography, conservation biology

Advisor: Lawing

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Freshwater systems, community ecology, conservation biology, paleontology

Advisor: Perkin

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Ecophysiology of birds, conservation biology

Advisor: Grace

Entomology

Interests: Insect behavior, nutrition, microbiomes

Advisor: Behmer / Sword

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Freshwater ecology, food web ecology, niche partitioning

Advisor: Winemiller

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Phylogenetics, hybridization, conservation

Advisor: Mateos

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests:  Evolution, symbiosis, molecular genetics/genomics

Advisor:  Mateos

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests:  Community ecology, evolutionary ecology and conservation biology

Advisor: Lawing

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Population genetics, conservation genetics, molecular ecology, molecular systematics, evolution

Advisor: Hurtado

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Phylogenetics, molecular systematics, evolutionary ecology, species interactions, conservation genetics

Advisor: Hurtado

Entomology

Interests: Insect behavior, phenotypic plasticity, gene expression

Advisor: Sword

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Island biogeography, evolution, animal distribution along elevation gradients, host-parasite interactions, and conservation biology

Advisor: Voelker

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Primate behavior

Advisor: Yorzinski

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Parasitology, host-parasite interactions, bat flies

Advisor: Light

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Genome and trait evolution, sex and mating systems, phylogenetics and macroevolution

Advisor: Casola

Anthropology

Interests: Primatology, nutritional ecology, comparative anatomy and physiology

Advisor: Gursky

Entomology

Interests: Animal behavior, phenotypic plasticity, behavioral plasticity, collective mass movement

Advisor: Sword

Entomology

Interests: Macroevolutionary processes; parasite-insect interactions

Advisor: Song

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Speciation and diversification processes, models of evolution, epistemology of theory development

Advisor: Spalink

Biology

Interests: Primate behavioral ecology, sexual selection

Advisor: Fitzpatrick

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Herpetological conservation, conservation biology, community ecology

Advisor: Fitzgerald

Biology

Interests: Avian ecology and conservation, stable isotopes, migratory plasticity

Advisor: Butler

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Ecological restoration of the dunes sagebrush lizard in west Texas

Advisor: Fitzgerald

Entomology

Interests: Evolution, natural history, phylogenetics and genomics

Advisor: Song

Entomology

Interests: Plant-insect interactions, plant chemical ecology, plant-microbe interactions, and biological control

Advisor: Helms

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Landscape genomics, urban ecology, population ecology, conservation biology

Advisor: Ausprey

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Speciation and hybridization

Advisor: Lawing

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Plant evolutionary genetics, stress tolerance in plants, de novo genes

Advisor: Casola

Marine Biology

Interests: Community ecology, restoration ecology

Advisor: Armitage

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Phylogenetics, ecology, and conservation of rare plant species

Advisor: Spalink

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Herpetology, conservation biology, population/community ecology

Advisor: Fitzgerald

Marine Biology

Interests: Facilitative interactions, community ecology, salt marsh ecology

Advisor: Armitage

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Environmental impact, ecosystem quality, restoration ecology

Advisor: Fujiwara

Entomology

Interests: Host-pathogen interactions, vector-borne diseases, one health

Advisor: G. Hamer

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Plant systematics, biogeography, niche modeling and phylogenetics

Advisor: Spalink

Biology

Interests: Cnidarian symbiosis, coral bleaching, genomics

Advisor: Strader / Kitchen

Biology

Interests: Aquatic ecology, invasive species, and invertebrate zoology

Advisor: Blackmon

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of the plant family Poaceae

Advisor: Spalink

Ecology & Conservation Biology

Interests: Ecotoxicology, freshwater ecosystems, groundwater recharge, ecohydrology, vegetation dynamics and land cover change

Advisor: Wilcox