New Archives: 2017
May 2017
May 31, 2017, MSU news highlights fox vocalization research of Ecology undergraduate student Savanah Leidholt. Leidholt, Biological Sciences - Conservation Biology and Ecology major, presented her research as a part of the National Conferences of Undergraduate Research, held April 2017 at the University of Memphis. Kevin Jones, Biological Sciences - Organismal Biology undergraduate student, also presented his poster on The Evolution of Human Pregnancy at the conference. This conference will held at MSU in 2020, and is expected to host more than 4,000 students.
May 24, 2017, MSU News and the Bozeman Chronicle both report on Doctoral Candidate Tony Chang, recipient of a 2017 David H. Smith Conservation Research Fellowship. Chang, who will receive his Ph.D in Ecology and Environmental Sciences under Dr. Andrew Hansen's lab this summer, will go on to collaborate with researchers at Conservation Sciences Partners, Inc., Colorado State University, and NASA during his fellowship.
May 9, 2017, MSU News reports on Ecology Ph.D. student Maureen Kessler's recent Fulbright Fellowship award. Kessler will travel to Australia for her 10-month fellowship studying the Hendra virus
in flying foxes, a large fruit bat. She is a part of the Disease Ecology Lab at MSU,
advised by assistant professor Raina Plowright.
April 2017
April 25, 2017, MSU News highlights MSU alum Isaac Miller, who now works in the Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) and who has received a
Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. Miller earned a
bachelor's degree in 2015 in Biological Sciences - Organismal Biology through our
department, and worked for two years at the Bozeman Fish Technology Center. He will begin PhD studies in Fall 2017 through MSU's Molecular Biosciences Program where he will continue work with the CBE and Bozeman Fish Technology Center.
March 2017
March 10, 2017, The Ecology Department had a strong presence at the Montana Chapter of The Wildlife Society meetings in Helena during the week of March 6-10. Attending were 20 undergraduate students, 10 graduate students, and 3 faculty. Ecology students and faculty gave 8 oral presentations and several poster presentations. Three students received awards: undergraduate student Thomas Sutton (advisor Andrea Litt) received the Wynn Freeman Award, graduate student Shannon Hilty (advisor Andrea Litt) received a small grant from the Chapter to support her research, and graduate student Anthony Slominski (advisor Laura Burkle) received the award for best student presentation. Congrats!
March 2017, Yellowstone Science publishes several papers co-authored by Ecology graduate students and faculty. Students Colleen Detjens and Kurt Heim co-authored Preservation of Native Cutthroat Trout in Northern Yellowstone and students Alex Poole and Nathan Thomas, along with Drs. Chris Guy and Al Zale.
co-authored Lake Trout Supression Alternatives to Gillnetting. Detjens was also the main author on a short in the issue entitled, Fly Fishing Volunteers Support Native Fish Conservation in Yellowstone.
February 2017
February 14, 2017, MSU News highlights a paper co-authored by doctoral student Elizabeth Flesch, interdepartmental student in both our department and the Department of Animal and
Range Sciences. Published in the journal Ecosphere, the paper Comparing citizen science and professional data to evaluate extrapolated mountain
goat distribution models, focuses on data gathered in Glacier National Park as park of its High Country Citizen Science Project.
January 2017
January 30, 2017, Graduate student Leonardo Calle, along with his advisor Benjamin Poulter, have co-authored a paper published by Nature Geoscience: Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed.
January 27, 2017, Frontiers in Marine Science accepts paper, Using optical sensors on gliders to estimate phytoplankton carbon concentrations and chlorophyll-to-carbon ratios in the Southern Ocean, co-authored by Ecology graduate student Gilbert Ogunkoya.
January 12, 2017, Congratulations to our students that made the President's Honor Roll and the Dean's Honor Roll for Fall 2016 semester!
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