Fisheries & Wildlife Graduate Research Projects
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List of current graduate students doing fisheries and wildlife projects - 2009-2010
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| Name | Class | Curr | Adviser | Research Subject |
| ADAMSKI KYLE | MS | BIO | BUCKEL | Gag grouper recruitment in NC estuaries |
| ALLEN STEPHEN | MS | FW | MOORE | Conservation Design Tool Kit |
| ANDERSON, C. JANE | MS | FW | PETERSON | Assessing willingness of North Carolina residents to increase wildlife conservation funding |
| ASPINWALL MARTHA | DR | FW | DEPERNO/MOORMAN | Movement and implications of Canada geese across an urban landscape |
| BACHELER NATHAN | DR | BIO | BUCKEL/HIGHTOWER | Estimating fishing and natural mortality rates of red drum |
| BAKAL ROBERT | DR | FW | STOSKOPF | Policy development in fish health management at federal level |
| BECKER, SHARON | MR | FW | MOORMAN | |
| BERECZ, MICHAEL | DR | FW | STOSKOPF | Disinfection of water with phthalocyanine and carbon nanomaterials |
| BlACKMAN, EMILY | MS | FW | PETERSON/DEPERNO | Agricultural wintering habitat as a limiting factor for woodcock in the Southeast: |
| BOWLING, SHANNON | MS | FW | MOORMAN | |
| BROWN CHRISTIN | MS | FW | KWAK | Gear bias, selectivity and a standardized fish sampling protocol for Puerto Rico streams |
| BUTTERMORE, ELISSA | MS | FW | KWAK | Trophic dynamics of contaminants in Puerto Rico river fishes |
| CARR CINDY | MS | FW | LANCIA | Modeling highway location on birds |
| CHARLES-SMITH, LAUREN | DR | FW | STOSKOPF-KENNEDY | |
| CHARTIER NEIL | DR | FW | LANCIA | Roanoke River flooding effects on Swainson's Warblers |
| CHITWOOD COLTER | MS | FW | DEPERNO/LANCIA | Deer population assessment on Hofmann Forest |
| COOK, MERRIL | MS | FW | PETERSON | |
| DAVIS CANDACE | DR | BIO | POWELL | |
| DEROLPH, CHRIS | MS | FW | NELSON | Impacts of land use changes on wild trout populations |
| DOUGLASS KELLY | MS | FW | DOERR | Lead shot availability to mourning doves |
| ELLIS, TIMOTHY | DR | FW | BUCKEL/HIGHTOWER | Movement and mortality of spotted sea trout |
| FAVROT SCOTT | MS | FW | KWAK | Reproductive ecology of the sicklefin redhorse |
| FEINER, SCOTT | MS | FW | ADAY/RICE | Foodweb dynamics in reservoirs |
| FISK MICHAEL | MS | FW | KWAK | Reproductive ecology and habitat relations of the robust redhorse in the Pee Dee River |
| FOLTA JOSEPH | DR | FOR | LANCIA/DEPERNO | |
| FRIEDL, SARAH | MS | FW | BUCKEL/HIGHTOWER | Does density-dependent mortality in an estuarine fish limit recruitment? |
| GARNER BRAD | MS | FW | KWAK | Effects of intensive triploid grass carp stocking on reservoir invasive plants and fish distributions |
| GLASS LINDSAY | DR | BIO | RICE | Effects of hypoxia-induced habitat compression on juvenile fish cohort dynamics: field and model investigations |
| GODBOUT JASON | MS | FW | ADAY/RICE | Trophic interactions and reservoir food web dynamics |
| GOLDEN KATHERINE | MS | FW | DEPERNO/MOORMAN | Fee-hunting and wildlife management practices on non-industrial private lands |
| GREINER, RENAE | MS | FW | LEVINE | |
| GRIFFITH EMILY | DR | ST | POLLOCK | Catch curve modelling |
| HAIN ERNST | DR | FW | NELSON/GILLIAM | Impacts of habitat quality on amphidromous biota in Hawaiian streams |
| HARRIS JULIANNE | DR | BIO | HIGHTOWER | Movement and spawning of American shad transported above dams on the Roanoke River |
| HARRIS NYEEMA | DR | FW | NELSON/DUNN | Parasite community dynamics in rare carnivore hosts |
| HURLEY JENNIFER | DR | FW | NELSON/LEVINE | Characterization of watershed influences on freshwater mussels |
| IGLECIA, MONICA | MS | FW | COLLAZO | Patch dynamics and conservation design in Southeast US |
| JOHNSON BRENDA | MS | FW | HADAD | Effects of habitat fragmentation and corridors on disease dynamics |
| KLIMSTRA, RYAN | MR | FW | LANCIA | Wildlife use of native warm-season and exotic cool-season grass fields |
| MAGOWAN KEVIN | MS | FW | HIGHTOWER | Movement and spawning of American shad transported above dams on the Roanoke River |
| MARSCHHAUSER SARA | MS | FW | DEPERNO | Assessing ghost crab predation on sea turtle hatchlings on Onslow Beach |
| MAYS JASON | MS | FW | KWAK/COPE | Platinum group metals in freshwater mussels: an indicator of transportation impacts |
| MCVEY, JUSTIN | MR | FW | MOORMAN | Food habits of large Canids on the Albemarle Peninsula |
| MIDWAY STEPHEN | MS | FW | KWAK/ADAY | Life history and reproductive ecology of the Carolina madtom |
| MORLEY JAMES | DR | BIO | BUCKEL | Bluefish recruitment in continental shelf waters of NC |
| MORRIS JAMES | DR | BIO | RICE/GOVONI | Population growth and ecological impacts of the non-native lionfish (Pterois volitans and Pterois miles) in the Western Atlantic |
| PAINE, LISA | MS | FW | COLLAZO | Avian corridors in southwestern Puerto Rico |
| PALAMAR MARIA | DR | FW | DEPERNO | Assessing movement, habitat use, disease status and control/eradication measures for feral hogs |
| PATTANARANGSAN R. | DR | FW | STOSKOPF | Aspects of avian influenza epidemiology |
| PLAHUTA AMY | MS | FW | LANCIA | Swainson's warbler territory size |
| PLUSH, CHARLES | MS | FW | MOORMAN | Whole-farm level evaluation of wildlife use of planted field borders in organic agriculture systems |
| POTTER MATTHEW | MS | FW | HESS/MOORMAN | Urban snake ecology in Raleigh/Cary, NC Greenways |
| RAABE JOSHUA | DR | BIO | HIGHTOWER | Assessing benefits to migratory fishes of habitat restored by dam removal |
| RAYBUCK, AMY | MS | FW | MOORMAN/DEPERNO | Impacts of oak regeneration forestry practices on herpetofauna |
| REIS, KATHRYN | DR | FW | HESS/STEELMAN | Institutional barriers to adaptive management |
| ROBERTSON, SCOTT | DR | FW | POWELL | |
| ROCKHILL AIMEE | DR | FW | DEPERNO | Using bobcat (Lynx rufus) as an indicator species in developing a management plan in the Bull Neck Swamp |
| RODRIGUEZ, SHARI | DR | FW | PETERSON | Assessing feasibility of conservation crediting in North Carolina |
| SANDFOSS MARK | MS | FW | DEPERNO/LANCIA | Modeling population size and the impacts of harvest for feral hogs and white-tailed deer at Howell Woods |
| SERRANO, MARIA | MS | FW | STOSKOPF | Assessment of carp mortality events in the United States |
| SHAKE COREY | MS | FW | MOORMAN | Effects of patch perimeter: area ratio and landscape context on bird communities in CREP buffers |
| SHERRILL, BRANDON | MS | FW | DEPERNO/MOORMAN | Movement, habitat selection, and baseline condition of deer on Bald Head Island, North Carolina |
| SMITH JOSEPH | MS | FW | HIGHTOWER | Spawning activity of anadromous fishes in the Cape Fear River |
| SMITH, WILL | DR | FW | KWAK | Ecology of amphidromous fishes in Puerto Rico rivers |
| STRICKLAND, MARY | MS | FW | COLLAZO | Survival and breeding productivity of resident species in Puerto Rico. |
| SWIERS, ROB | MS | FW | POWELL | Survival and Reproduction in a Reintroduced Population of Fishers in the Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains |
| TARR NATHAN | MS | FW | SIMONS | Effects of ORV disturbance on wintering waterbirds at Cape Lookout National Seashore |
| TURNER MELISSA | MS | FW | DEPERNO | White-tailed deer population dynamics |
| WAINE, MICHAEL | MS | FW | HIGHTOWER | Assessment of anadromous fish spawning runs using split-beam and multibeam sonars |
| WALLACE BENJAMIN | MS | FW | KWAK | Stream trout ecology and management in North Carolina state parks |
| WEAVER DANIEL | MS | FW | KWAK | Interaction of stocked trout with native nongame stream fishes |
| WHITTIER, CHRIS | DR | FW | STOSKOPF | Assessment of risk of pathogen transfer between free ranging mountain gorilla and humans |
