PAST LAB MEMBERS

Graduate students and dates they defended. Scroll down for more information.

2002   James W. Tucker, PhD

2004   Jeffrey A. Stratford, PhD

2005   Randall P. Moore, PhD

2007   Allison Ainsworth, MS

2007   Jamie Nelson, MS

2007   James Rebholz, MS

2007   Ghislain Rompré, PhD

2007   Joseph B. Fontaine, PhD

2008   Jennifer Bruce, MS

JEFF STRATFORD

B.S., Rutgers University
M.S., Southeast Louisiana University
Ph.D., Auburn University, 2004

I studied the distributions of birds across an urbanizing landscape in western Georgia. I am now an Assistant Professor at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barr, Pennsylvania. 

JAMES TUCKER

B.S., Auburn University
M.S., University of New Hampshire
Ph.D., Auburn University, 2002

The influence of prescribed burning on Bachman’s Sparrows and Henslow’s Sparrows in longleaf pine forests was the focus of my dissertation. I have taken my interest in sparrows to a postdoc position at Archbold Biological Station in Florida where I am now studying the endangered Florida Grasshopper Sparrow.

 

ALISON AINSWORTH

B.S., University of Michigan
M.S., Oregon State University, 2007

Ali studied the response of vegetation communities to fire in Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii.  Her primary advisor was Boone Kauffman and her co-advisor was Douglas Robinson.

JAMIE NELSON

B.S., Wildlife Science, University of Idaho
M.S., Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, 2007

I studied correlates of survival, movements, habitat use, and nest site selection of Mountain Quail translocated into a former portion of their historic geographic range. Mountain Quail were formerly common in Steens Mountain Range, an isolated mountainous area in the southeastern Oregon desert, but have been extirpated for at least 25 years. I followed radio-collared birds to understand which birds survive, where they go, where they breed, and the success of their reproductive efforts.  I am now a biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife in Baker, Oregon.

JAMES REBHOLZ

B.S., St. Mary's College
M.S., Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, 2007

My project addressed habitat use, chick survival, and movements of Greater Sage-Grouse in the Montana Mountains of northern Nevada. The population there is one of the densest known for this declining species, yet has been studied very little.  I am now a data analyst for the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

 

JOE FONTAINE

B.S., Chemistry and Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College, Maine
M.S., Zoology, Colorado State University
Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University

My Ph.D. addressed responses of vertebrate communities, especially songbirds and small mammals, to wildlfire, salvage logging, and re-burn in the Biscuit Fire of southwestern Oregon. The Biscuit Fire burned almost 500,000 acres in 2002 in the Siskiyou Mountains. Some of the area had burned in two 1987 fires. I investigated how bird and rodent communities vary with respect to fire and logging after fire.

JENNIFER BRUCE

B.S., Wildlife Science, Oregon State University

Master's student, OSU

My thesis examined the movements and habitat use of greater sage-grouse in central Oregon during winter.