The Graduate Students

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Exploring the historic trend of medusahead in the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington using remote sensing techniques

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Reconstructing historical post-fire recruitment in the Yosemite Forest Dynamics Plot

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Disease ecology of brucellosis in free-ranging elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Sagebrush decline on the Colorado Plateau: A look at sagebrush and soils

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Relationship on vegetation from livestock grazing and fine fuel control

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Amazon Symphony: Effects of land use change, habitat heterogeneity, and acoustic invaders on soundscapes

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Modeling land cover changes in the cloudy region of Chocó (South America), one of the biodiversity hotspots of the world

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Ecology of the Morgan-Summit Sage-grouse management area Greater Sage-grouse population: Conservation implications for managers

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Exploring the diversity-productivity relationship

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Forb Islands: Novel techniques for improving native forb establishment for diversifying and enhancing sagebrush-steppe plant communities

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Measuring plant-soil-feedbacks in a field-experiment and address its importance in plant community dynamics

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Efficacy of translocation as a management tool for urban mule deer

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Assessing the viability of seedling-based aspen restoration in southwestern Utah

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Effect and Effectiveness of Livestock Guardian Dogs

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Wolf downtime shapes the landscape of fear in Yellowstone National Park

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Cortisol levels in Pekania pennant: relationship between home range disturbance and physiological stress

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Fire and herbivore interactions limit tree demographic transitions East African savannas: how do juvenile persist?

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Effect of forage diversity and plant secondary compounds on livestock foraging behavior, production and environmental impacts

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Development and Fitness Consequences of On-shore Behavior for the Southern Beaufort Sea Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Subpopulation

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Development of a classification and monitoring approach to identify and assess disturbance in semi-arid ecosystems using multi-scale and multi-temporal remotely sensed imagery: Development of protocols for land managers

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Carbon storage and sequestration implications of forest restoration

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: The interactive effect of soil texture, soil depth, and herbivory on Artemisia tridentata survival and stress

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: The modeling of dust emission in various plant communities, Southeastern Utah, USA

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Environmental constraints on Pronghorn neonate survival across Idaho

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Monitoring Desert Mule Deer using DNA-Based capture-recapture

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Greater Sage-grouse responses to Pinyon-Juniper removal: Mitigating resistance in an anthropogenic altered landscape

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Determining Pacific fisher (Pekania pennanti) response to silvicultural treatments in southwestern Oregon

Preliminary Dissertation Subject: Livestock grazing and disturbance as a tool for Medusahead control

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Using remotely piloted aircraft to detect and monitor Greater Sage-Grouse in northern Utah

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Effects of three shrub reduction treatments on seeded species establishment and persistence in Utah: a broad-scale assessment

Preliminary Thesis Subject: Human-wildlife conflicts in Bryce Canyon National Park: A wildlife research and human dimensional study of human-wildlife interactions