Students

current Students​

Kelly Crandall, Southern Illinois University
2022-present. Movement ecology of mesopredators in the Florida Keys in the face of anthropogenic subsidies and exotic predators. External MS Co-Adviser. Primary Adviser: Brent Pease, Southern Illinois University

Dan Herrera, University of Maryland
2018-present. Urban influences on wildlife communities. External MS Committee Member. Primary Adviser: Travis Gallo, University of Maryland

Former Students

Tru Hubbard, Northern Michigan University
Examining the effects of human recreation on a diverse carnivore community in the upper peninsula of Michigan. External MS committee member. 2019-2021.

Carolina Baruzzi, Mississippi State University
Understanding the effects of mass mortality events on plant community structure and consumer behavior. External PhD committee member. 2016-2019.Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Florida

Julia Jacobs, North Carolina State University
Assessing the utility of spots as unique identifiers of Key deer fawns for spatial capture-recapture analyses. NCSU Applied Ecology Minor Research. 2014-2017.

Melanie Huffman, North Carolina State University
Are Key Largo woodrats ecosystem engineers and do their nests support biodiversity? NCSU Honor’s Thesis. 2016-2017.

Molly Nicholson, North Carolina State University
Trends in raccoon diet based on stable isotope analyses across an urbanization gradient in the Florida Keys. NCSU Applied Ecology Minor Research. 2017-2019.

Olivia Phillips, North Carolina State University
Habitat associations and activity patterns of Key deer as determined from camera trap data in the National Key Deer Refuge. NCSU Honor’s Thesis. 2013-2015 Currently: MS student at Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

Heather Schriefer, North Carolina State University
Using stable isotopes to assess the diets of free-ranging and contained domestic cats on Hayden Island, Oregon. NCSU Applied Ecology Minor Research. 2017-2019.

Robert Noah Williams, North Carolina State University
Understanding spatial, temporal, and diet overlap in two common mesopredators. 2014-2016.

Donald Clever Jr., University of Central Missouri
Assessing the differences in detection among camera trap types for surveying suburban carnivores. Currently: Conservation Enforcement Officer for Missouri Department of Conservation. 2008-2010.

Brandon McDonald, University of Florida.
Evaluating the effects of non-native black rats on the population connectivity of the endangered Key Largo woodrat and Key Largo cotton mouse. External MS Co-Adviser. 2020-2022.

Ryan Dunwoody, University of Central Missouri
Using camera traps to assess the impacts of feral cats and domestic dogs on sympatric wildlife. 2009-2010. Currently: Environmental Programs Specialist for Meramec Regional Planning Commission.

Brandon Jones, University of Central Missouri
Using camera traps to assess the co-occurrence of coyotes, other mesopredators, and their prey in the suburban Midwest. 2009-2011. Currently: Environmental Scientist for Seagull Environmental Technologies, Inc.

Bryan White, University of Central Missouri
Using camera traps to estimate bobcat abundance in Johnson County, Missouri. 2010-2011. Currently: Biologist with Florida Audubon.

Christopher Fernandez, George Mason University
Drivers of nest predator communities and nest predation pressure in fragmented forest patches, Costa Rica. 2016.

Jamie Jenkins, George Mason University
Conservation value of public and private forest reserves for urban mammal communities in Washington D.C.. 2018

Tucker Phillips, George Mason University
Landscape patterns of mesopredators and their native and invasive rodent prey in Washington D.C.. 2019.

Adrian Figueroa, Florida International University.
Seed predation and seed dispersal services provided by collared peccaries in northeastern Costa Rica. 2018.

Maria Vera Alvarez, Virginia Commonwealth University
Determining the effects of high peccary abundance on amphibian communities, La Selva, Costa Rica. 2016.

Matthew Willson, Florida State University
Human-habituated collared peccaries and the landscape of fear. 2018.

Dani Mayes, Meredith College.
Using camera trap data to estimate ocelot abundance at La Selva Biological Station. Undergraduate Research Mentor. 2019-2020.