Graduate Student Mentoring
Current Graduate Students
Mason Ryckman - M.S. Student
Project - Developing Best Practices for Using Drones to Survey Breeding Waterfowl
Sally Yannuzzi - Ph.D. Student
Project - Exploring Methods for Assessing Energy Development
Past Graduate Students
Paul Burr - M.S. Student, Summer 2014
Project - Impacts of gas and oil development on Sharp-tailed Grouse Nesting Ecology and Nest Predation
Beth Walters - M.S. Student, December 2014
Project - Songbird and vegetation responses to reduction of large herbivore densities at Sully's Hill National Game Preserve
R. J. Gross - M.S. Student, May 2015
Project - Incidental take of non-target waterbirds from floating muskrat sets in North Dakota
Rebecca Kludt - M.S. Student, May 2016
Project - Nesting Behaviors of Sharp-tailed Grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) Using Camera Technology
Joshua Bruggman - M.S. Student, May 2017
Project - Impacts of Cattail Management Techniques on Plant, Bird, Amphbian, and Invertebrate Communities in Shallow Wetlands of Northwestern Minnesota
Alicia Andes - Ph.D. Student, Summer 2018
Project - A Video Camera Technique to Understand Least Tern and Piping Plover Nest Dynamics
Tanner Stechmann - M.S. Student, Spring 2019
Project - Nesting Ecology of Common Eiders at Wapusk National Park
Sam Hervey - M.S. Student, Spring 2019
Project - Conspecific Brood Parasitism as an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy in Two Waterfowl Species
Andrew Barnas - Ph.D. Student, Winter 2019
Project - Using Drones and Remote Cameras to Study Sub-Arctic Wildlife