Tim was a postdoc, and he joined the lab in September 2017. His doctorate is from University of Illinois where he completed a demographic study of ring-necked pheasants. He helped Dr. Mark Vrtiska and me answer questions about effects of harvest regulations on Canada geese in Nebraska and beyond. Tim now works for the Minnesota DNR.

E. J. was a postdoctoral research associate, and he worked on our prairie chicken/wind energy project. He had a background with grasslands in the Great Plains, coming from Kansas State University where he completed a dissertation on spatial habitat use by bison. He worked with acoustic and spatial data in our lab during September 2015 to August 2017.

Jen was a postdoctoral associate from September 2012-April 2015. She supported our wind turbine and prairie-chicken research project in the Nebraska Sandhills. Jen is from the UK, where she did her PhD at the University of Birmingham on the effects of supplementary feeding on reproductive behavior of woodland birds. Jen received her BSc in Zoology from the Univ. of Wales in Cardiff. Her web page is: http://drjensmith1.wix.com/jensmith

Tim joined the lab in June 2008. Dr. Drew Tyre and I co-supported Tim's research, which involved long-term wildlife data sets in Nebraska, such as the rural mailcarrier surveys. His work was sponsored by NRCS' CEAP program, as it relates to effects of Farm Bill programs on wildlife in the landscape. Tim has a MS from Oklahoma State University and a PhD from Michigan State. Tim went on to postdoc with Drew Tyre and then became the furbearer biologist for the state wildlife agency in Oregon.

Dr. Viviane Henaux was selected for a postdoctoral position in UNL's Population Biology Program of Excellence. She was one of 3 postdocs supported under the program. Drew Tyre and I served as Viviane's faculty sponsors. She worked with stable isotopes and disease dynamics. Viviane came to UNL from France, where she was a PhD student in J. D. Lebreton's lab. She was at UNL from October 2006-March 2008. She left UNL to work for 4 years for USGS in Madison, WI.

Maggi was a PhD student who joined the lab in August 2012. She graduated in May 2017. Maggi was a part of our IGERT program (adaptive management of stressed watersheds) at UNL. She completed a dissertation that combined human dimensions and grazing/bird dynamics on private lands related to conservation and rangeland heterogeneity. She received her MS from the University of Manitoba where she worked on a songbird/grazing project. She enjoyed time spent volunteering in Kenya.

Jib's home country is Thailand, and she is a Ph.D. student in the Conservation Ecology Program at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand. She spends most of her time in the forest investigating the effects of forest edge on avian communities, nest survival, and the nest predator community. She joined the lab in November 2016 as a visiting scholar through April 2017.

Andrei was a PhD student. He joined the lab in August 2013 and graduated in May 2016. Andrei was co-advised by Dr. John Carroll. He has served as head of research at Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana. Andrei received his MS from Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa. His previous work was with leopard movements, and he will focus on lions in a matrix of private lands and game reserves in Botswana. He is currently a lecturer at UCLA.

Cara received her MS degree in December 2015, co-advised with Dr. Mary Bomberger Brown. Cara joined the lab in August 2012, and she assessed the potential effects of wind turbines, and the noise they produce, on greater prairie-chickens. Cara received her BA degree in Biology from Colby College.

Katie received her MS student in December 2015, co-advised with Dr. John Carroll. Katie joined the lab in August 2013. She assessed habitat use of kori bustards and guinea fowl in a matrix of public and private lands in eastern Botswana. Katie received her BS degree from the University of Georgia.

Jocelyn received her MS degree in August 2015, co-advised by Dr. Mary Bomberger Brown. She joined the lab in August 2012. She was the recipient of a NSF graduate student fellowship, which funded her work on movements and demography of greater prairie-chickens near a wind farm in the Nebraska Sandhills. Jocelyn received BS degrees in Biological Sciences, Environmental Studies, and Anthropology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Matt joined the lab in January 2012 and graduated with a MS degree in December 2013. He was co-advised with Dr. Mark Vrtiska, waterfowl program manager at the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Matt used the federal Parts Collection Survey to assess variation in hunter success, bag composition, and distribution of harvest as a result of regulation changes during the past 35 years.

Ingrid was a PhD student with an MS from Napier University; she is originally from Spain, and I co-advise her with Dr. Felipe Chavez-Ramirez from the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust. Ingrid's research project focuses on the ecology of sandhill cranes on their wintering grounds in Mexico. Ingrid has a very diverse background in conservation biology (including her work with Ruppell's foxes). She began her PhD program in January of 2007, and she received her PhD in May 2013.

Lucia was a MS student from Guatemala, and received a Fulbright fellowship that supported her studies at UNL. She studied the use of cameras to survey swift foxes. She has a Bachelors degree in Biology from Universidad del Valle in Guatemala and a Masters degree in Ecology, Conservation, and Wildlife Management from Universidade Fedral de Minas Gerais in Brazil. She joined the lab in Fall 2010 and graduated with her MS in May 2012. She is now a PhD student with Dr. TJ Fontaine at UNL.

Lars was a MS student, and I co-advised him with Dr. Walter Schacht in UNL's Department of Agronomy and Horticulture. Lars graduated in May 2009 from UNL with a double major in Rangeland Ecosystems and Fisheries and Wildlife. His project assessed habitat use and selection of greater prairie-chickens in Nebraska's Sandhills. Lars began his MS program in May 2009 and graduated with his MS in May 2012. He now works for the American Prairie Reserve.

Dessalegn was a member of our lab during February to April, 2012. While in the lab, Dessalegn received training in habitat selection analyses and GIS skills. I first met Dessalegn at an international training course at the Cheetah Fund in Namibia in 2009. He was a PhD student at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. He defended his dissertation successfully in December of 2012.

Zach was a MS student with a BS in Fisheries and Wildlife from UNL. I co-advised him with Dr. Mark Vrtiska (Nebraska Game and Parks Commission waterfowl program manager). Zach's project addressed variability of waterfowl productivity across the Sandhills of Nebraska. Zach began his MS program in January of 2007 and graduated in August 2011. He is employed as a wildlife biologist by the Nebraska Department of Roads.

Louise is a Lecturer at Polytechnic of Namibia and was an MS student at University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. She looked at the distribution of insects among tree species along a precipitation gradient in Namibia. I met Louise during my sabbatical to Namibia during 2009, and I became a co-advisor for her Masters dissertation in Summer 2010. Her advisor at Univ. Free State is Dr. Schalk Louw, Professor of Entomology. Louise graduated with her Masters in May 2011.

Mary was a PhD student and was coordinator of the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership in Nebraska. She received her MS degree in Biology from UNL. For her PhD, she assessed morphometrics from a long-term data set of cliff swallows. Mary began her PhD program in January 2009 and graduated in May 2011. The speed of her program was not typical...! Mary passed away in August 2019, and I miss our collaborations every day...

Sarah was a MS student, and I co-advised her with Dr. Craig Allen in UNL's Coop Unit. She was a graduate of Concordia University in Seward, NE. Sarah's project assessed songbird use of three National Park Service sites: Homestead National Monument (NE), Pipestone National Monument (MN), and Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve (KS). Sarah began her MS program in January 2008, and she graduated in August 2010. She now works for a private consulting firm in Kansas.

Ty was a PhD student with a BS in Biology from the University of Indiana. Ty, originally from Idaho, worked on a dissertation that included pheasant and greater prairie chicken habitat selection/productivity project in eastern Nebraska, in collaboration with Dr. Scott Taylor and Jeffrey Lusk (Nebraska Game and Parks Commission). Ty began his PhD program in January of 2005. and I co-advised him with Dr. Drew Tyre. Ty graduated in December 2009. He now works for the USFWS in Idaho.

Matt was a PhD student with a MS in Wildlife Science from Texas Tech University and a BS in Biology from University of Wisconsin-Stephens Point. Matt was a graduate student in UNL's Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, and I co-advised him with Dr. Walter Schacht. Matt's project assessed meadowlark nest and fledgling survival in Nebraska's Sandhills. Matt began his PhD program in August of 2005, and graduated in December 2009. He is now a Research Scientist with the Peregrine Fund in ID.

Karen was a MS student, and was advised by Dr. Felipe Chavez-Ramirez at the Whooping Crane Trust. She graduated in December 2008. I served as her on-campus advisor, and Karen began her MS program in August of 2005. She is currently working in Costa Rica as the manager of a private conservation reserve.

January was a MS student with a BS in Environmental Sciences from Creighton University in Omaha. She graduated from UNL in May 2007. She worked with small mammals and songbirds along the Niobrara River Valley in northern Nebraska. January began her MS program in January of 2004. She currently has two incredibly cool kids.