| Student Name | Acevedo, Miguel |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | maacevedo@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Fletcher | | Research | Applications of graph theory to landscape connectivity and conservation | | Interests | Ecological informatics, ecological modeling and conservation |
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| Student Name | Aguiar-neto, Antonio |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | patriota@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Bruna | | Research | Mechanisms underlying inter-population demographic variation of trees in fragmented tropical landscapes
Interests: | | Interests | Tropical plants |
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| Student Name | Armitage, David |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | dave.armitage@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Ober | | Research | Foraging ecology and ecomorphology of Florida bats | | Interests | Sensory ecology, community dynamics, natural history |
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| Student Name | Atkinson, Ben |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | bka@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Ross | | Research | Conservation ecology of Florida’s non-marine turtles | | Interests | Sustainability, environmental education |
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| Student Name | Bernatis, Jennifer |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | bernatis@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Johnson | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Blake, Mitchell |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | mb5518@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Guiliano | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Blunden, Travis |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | Tblunden@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Johnson | | Research | Examining the response of reptiles, amphibians and small mammals to scrub restoration | | Interests | Restoration ecology, habitat management |
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| Student Name | Brown, Megan |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | meganbrown@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Miller | | Research | Exploring how feral hog disturbance affects plant communities in seepage slopes of the Florida Panhandle | | Interests | Hiking, kayaking, playing disc golf and making jewelry |
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| Student Name | Browne-Nunez, Christine |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | ndovu@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Jacobson | | Research | Evaluating the impact of human-elephant conflict interventions around Amboseli National Park, Kenya | | Interests | Human-wildlife conflict, environmental behavior |
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| Student Name | Burtner, Brittany |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | bburtner@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Frederick | | Research | Social cues and interactions between nesting wading
birds and alligators | | Interests | Conservation, population ecology, behavioral
ecology |
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| Student Name | Camposano, Brian |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Johnson | | Research | Morphology and geographic distributions of native and exotic Anole lizards in Florida | | Interests | Ecology and conservation |
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| Student Name | Canavelli, Sonia |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | scana@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Tanner | | Research | Integrating avian landscape ecology and human dimensions for comprehensive management of parakeet damage to crops | | Interests | Wildlife management |
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| Student Name | Carlton, Stuart |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | stuart.carlton@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Jacobson | | Research | The role of communication and social networks in public understanding of controversial scientific issues | | Interests | The human dimensions of conservation and natural resource management |
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| Student Name | Carter,Cameron |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Percival | | Research | The effects of habitat type and structure on alligator detect ability during night light surveys | | Interests | Wildlife ecology and conservation |
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| Student Name | Cattau, Christopher |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Kitchens | | Research | Foraging ecology and energetics of snail kites | | Interests | Landscape ecology and modeling |
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| Student Name | Chaves, Willandia |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | willandia@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Sieving | | Research | Reduced-impact logging and wildlife conservation in the southwestern Amazon - Brazil | | Interests | Conservation biology, ecology and conservation of neotropical mammals and birds, and wildlife management |
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| Student Name | Condon, Erin |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | epcondon@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Tanner | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | D'Amo, Phil |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | phildamo@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Hostetler | | Research | Low impact development policy research using participatory analysis as the research approach | | Interests | Human-based sustainability |
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| Student Name | Delaney, Patrick |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | jpdelaney@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Percival | | Research | Assessing habitat selection by American alligators using GIS | | Interests | Crocodilians, GIS, population ecology, and airboats |
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| Student Name | Drizd, Lara |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | lara.drizd@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Kitchens | | Research | Effects of hydrilla management on apple snails in Lake Tohopekaliga | | Interests | Conservation of Florida wildlife, wetlands ecology, invasive species |
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| Student Name | Dupree, Jennifer |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Miller | | Research | Coastal restoration techniques using native plants on barrier islands along the northern Gulf Coast of Florida | | Interests | Applied restoration and land management |
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| Student Name | Espinosa, Santiago |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | santiea@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Branch | | Research | Impacts of roads and hunting on jaguars in Yasuni NP, Ecuador | | Interests | Large carnivore ecology, landscape ecology |
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| Student Name | Figueroa, Omar |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | omarf@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Mazzotti | | Research | Developing habitat suitability models for Keystone species in Belize | | Interests | Landscape ecology and conservation biology |
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| Student Name | Finch, Colton |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | coltonfinch@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Pine | | Research | Research is the Near-Shore Ecology of native fish in Grand Canyon, AZ, especially humpback chub, Gila cypha | | Interests | fishing, snowboarding, canoeing/kayaking, hiking, camping, sushi, swimming, gardening, and photography |
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| Student Name | Frechette, Jackson |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Sieving | | Research | Community ecology, primate ecology, seed dispersal, predation risk | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Gallaher, Aubree |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Carthy | | Research | Effects of beach nourishment on sea turtle nesting densities in Florida | | Interests | Running, cooking and hanging out with her dogs |
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| Student Name | Garland, Kathryn |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | garlandk@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Carthy | | Research | Community-based approaches to sea turtle conservation in Caribbean, Nicaragua, and the Baja Peninsula | | Interests | Human dimensions of community-based conservation |
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| Student Name | Goswami, Varun |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | vgoswami@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Oli | | Research | Influences of anthropogenic disturbances on the ecology and behavior of large mammals and their interactions with people | | Interests | Population and behavioral and spatial ecology |
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| Student Name | Hall, Jason |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | jchall@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Tanner | | Research | Control of an invasive exotic species, paragrass, using combinations of cattle grazing, herbicide and flooding | | Interests | Environmental law |
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| Student Name | Hayman, Blair |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | bhayman@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Mazzotti | | Research | Public Opinions, Attitudes, Risk Perceptions, and Knowledge of Alligators in Florida | | Interests | Crocodilians, birds, human-wildlife interactions |
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| Student Name | Hoffman, Robert |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | robwhoff@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Giuliano | | Research | Northern bobwhites and usable space on south Florida rangelands | | Interests | Game bird management |
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| Student Name | Hostetler, Jeffrey |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | hostetle@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Oli | | Research | Population Viability Analysis for the Florida Panther | | Interests | Ecological modeling, population ecology, adaptive management, computational ecology, dynamic programming, survival analysis |
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| Student Name | Hua, Fangyuan |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | huamay@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Sieving | | Research | Impact of forest fragmentation on birds | | Interests | Avian ecology and conservation, habitat conservation |
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| Student Name | Huang, Ping |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | ping@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Sieving | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Jackson, Donald |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | dlj1@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Libisky | | Research | Conserved land management | | Interests | Management of natural resources – wildlife |
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| Student Name | Jalal, Sahar |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | sjalal@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Oli | | Research | | | Interests | Conservation biology, anthropogenic threats and wildlife management |
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| Student Name | Jayasena, Nilmini |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | nilmini@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Frederick | | Research | Effects of methyl mercury toxicity on White Ibis | | Interests | Endocrine disruption, physiological ecology, population |
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| Student Name | Johnson, Fred |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | fjohn@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Nichols | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Johnson, Rosalyn |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | rosjohnson@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Main | | Research | Impacts of human development and habitat conversion on wildlife species | | Interests | Kayaking and hiking |
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| Student Name | Karmacharya, Binab |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | binabk@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Oli | | Research | Wildlife ecology and population management | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Ketterlin, Jennifer |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Mazzotti | | Research | Occurrence of wildlife on tree islands in WCA 3A | | Interests | Wetland ecology, environmental policy |
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| Student Name | Kneip, Eva |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | ekneip@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Oli | | Research | Demography and population dynamics of the discrete golden-mantled ground squirrel in Colorado | | Interests | Mammalian population ecology and conservation of endangered mammals in a human dominated landscape |
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| Student Name | Lau, Anthony |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | alau0924@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Carthy, Dodd | | Research | Population and Landscape Ecology of Gopher tortoises in coastal sand dunes | | Interests | Chelonian conservation and ecology, Herpetology, Systematic |
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| Student Name | Lentijo-Jimenez, Gloria |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | gmlentijo@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Hostetler | | Research | Bird conservation and extension education with famers in coffee growing regions | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Lindgren, Kristi |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | Kristi_g8r@yahoo.com | | Advisor | Kitchens | | Research | Plant species competition across salinity gradient in Savannah River Delta | | Interests | Ecology and conservation |
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| Student Name | Lucas, Christine |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | chlucas@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Bruna | | Research | Impacts of disturbance and flood stress on seedling regeneration in Amazon River floodplain forests | | Interests | Seedling ecology |
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| Student Name | Lynch, Ryan |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | lynchrl@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Mazzotti | | Research | Habitat use and amphibian response to management practices | | Interests | Forest dynamics, herpetology, natural history & tropical conservation |
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| Student Name | Mahoney, Peter |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Meyer | | Research | Foraging activity and habitat use during the nesting season in Great White Herons of southern Florida | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Marcy, Nathan |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | ngmarcy@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Fletcher | | Research | Conservation of birds in fragmented cloud forest landscapes | | Interests | Landscape ecology, tropical ecology, birds |
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| Student Name | Martin, Elizabeth |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | emartin1@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Percival | | Research | Effects of raptors on foraging behavior and habitat use of wintering Dunlin | | Interests | Habitat use and mechanisms underlying use of resources |
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| Student Name | Masaya, Lucrecia |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | lmasaya@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Main | | Research | Interdisciplinary Ecology | | Interests | Carnivore Ecology, Large Cats (jaguars); Other interests: photography, cooking |
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| Student Name | McCray, Jame |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | jmmcray@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Carthy | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Morgan-Brown, Theron |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Jacobson | | Research | Conservation effects of the Amani butterfly project in Tanzania | | Interests | Non-timber forest products, human dimensions of conservation |
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| Student Name | Morris, Gail |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | gailmorris@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Oli | | Research | Effects of prescribed fire, supplemental feeding, and predator exclusion on small mammal populations in a longleaf pine ecosystem | | Interests | Small mammal ecology |
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| Student Name | Mota, Mario |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | chelonia@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Carthy | | Research | Clutch gas exchange in sea turtle nests | | Interests | Wildlife ecology and conservation |
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| Student Name | Neils, Alteris |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Sunquist | | Research | Ecology of the Florida black bear at the urban-wildland interface of Ocala National Forest | | Interests | Carnivore ecology and conservation biology |
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| Student Name | Nunez Regueiro, Mauricio |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | mregueiro@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Branch | | Research | Interactions between particular landscapes and medium to large mammals that occur in Salta province (NW of Argentina) | | Interests | Combining conservation biology with sustainable resource use and development |
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| Student Name | Olbert, Jean |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | olbertjean@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Kitchens | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Olson, Charley |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | bluefiled1@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Miller | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Olson, John |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | jolson@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Giuliano | | Research | Turkey nest habitat selection | | Interests | Game bird management |
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| Student Name | Pawlitz, Rachel |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Jacobson | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Pias, Kyle |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | kpias@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Kitchens | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Pruner, Raya |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | rpruner@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Johnson | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Ramalho, Emiliano |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | eeramalho@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Main | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Ramirez, Elizabeth |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | ramireze@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Ober | | Research | Developing a model to help design restoration efforts in the Ocala National Forest | | Interests | Threaten and endangered species, habitat restoration and public education |
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| Student Name | Reichert, Brian |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | breich@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Kitchens | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Sakurai, Ryo |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Jacobson | | Research | Human dimensions of Asiatic black bear management in Japan | | Interests | Human-wildlife conflicts, carnivore management, evaluation of environmental education/outreach campaign |
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| Student Name | Schwarzer, Amy |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | schwarze@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Percival | | Research | Habitat Use and Body Condition in Wintering and Migratory Red Knots in FL | | Interests | Migration ecology, ornithology, coastal systems, wetlands |
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| Student Name | Senko, Jesse |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | jsenko@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Carthy | | Research | Fine scale movements and habitat use of East Pacific green turtles, Chelonia mydas, at a coastal foraging area in Baja California Sur, Mexico | | Interests | Conservation biology and policy, landscape and spatial ecology, behavioral ecology, population and community ecology, fisheries bycatch and human dimensions of wildlife conservation |
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| Student Name | Shirley, Matt |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | mshirley@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Thorbjarnarson | | Research | Conservation and systematics of West African Crocodiles | | Interests | Herps, birds, rare animal ecology, systematics |
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| Student Name | Shoger, Bradley |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | bshoger@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Kitchens | | Research | Wildlife use of in-lake spoil islands | | Interests | Wetlands Ecology, Wildlife Ecology on private lands and habitat restoration |
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| Student Name | Silva, Eduardo |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | eduardosilva@ufl.edu | | Advisor | | | Research | Lethal and non-lethal effects of domestic carnivores on wildlife | | Interests | Conservation Biology, Landscape Ecology, Community Ecology, ecology of human-dominated landscapes |
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| Student Name | Sizemore, Grant |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | gsizemore@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Main | | Research | Effects of Brazilian Pepper on the Nesting Behavior of Wading Birds | | Interests | Behavioral Ecology |
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| Student Name | Skinner, Irina |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | irinas@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Fletcher | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Smith, Catherine |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | hellcat@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Ross | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Soto Shoender, Jose |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | joesoto@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Main | | Research | Effects of inter and intra-specific competition on neotropical carnivore ecology | | Interests | Ecology and conservation of neotropical carnivores and their prey, human-wildlife conflict mitigation |
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| Student Name | Stoddard, Margo |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | mstodd@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Branch | | Research | Multi-scale responses of small mammals to logging in Bolivia | | Interests | Influences of forest management on wildlife, tropical conservation |
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| Student Name | Teaque, Amy |  | | Degree | | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Nichols | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Thornton, Daniel |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | coyote@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Sunquist | | Research | Multiple-scale response of tropical forest mammals to habitat fragmentation | | Interests | Behavioral ecology of carnivores and primates |
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| Student Name | Throm, Rio |  | | Degree | MS (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Percival | | Research | | | Interests | |
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| Student Name | Townsend, Josiah |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | jtwnsnd@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Austin | | Research | Evolution, systematics, and conservation of Mesoamerican amphibians and reptiles | | Interests | Cloud forest conservation in Honduras |
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| Student Name | Underwood, Vicki |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | anurians@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Ober, Miller | | Research | Gopher Tortoises in Mississippi | | Interests | Disease ecology, epidemiology, conservation medicine, immunology, genetics of disease, ecotoxicology and herpetology (especially anurans) |
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| Student Name | Vasudev, Divya |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | divya.vasudev@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Fletcher | | Research | Dispersal and mating systems | | Interests | Conservation of mammals in fragmented areas |
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| Student Name | Velilla Fernandez, Marianela |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | mvelilla@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Sunquist | | Research | | | Interests | Carnivore ecology and conservation in Paraguay |
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| Student Name | Venne, Louise |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | lvenne@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Frederick | | Research | Response of wading birds to fire effects in the Everglades | | Interests | Effect of landscape changes on community composition |
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| Student Name | Vieira-Neto, Ernane |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | vieiraneto@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Bruna | | Research | Underlying causes of spatio-temporal variation in population demography and dynamics and the expansion of tropical ants along roads in the Brazilian savanna | | Interests | Population ecology, ant ecology, road ecology, plant-herbivore interactions, tropical ecology and conservation |
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| Student Name | Vongkhamheng, C. |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | cthavy@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Sunquist | | Research | Ecology & conservation of tigers and prey, & prey selection by large carnivores | | Interests | Carnivores & prey interactions |
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| Student Name | Wald, Dara |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | dwald@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Hostetler | | Research | Invasive species and human dimensions of wildlife ecology | | Interests | Human dimensions of wildlife management, environmental policy |
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| Student Name | Welch, Zach |  | | Degree | PhD (SNRE) | | Email Address | | | Advisor | Kitchens | | Research | Impact of disturbance/restoration on wetland ecosystems | | Interests | Orchids, house restoration, airboats, running |
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| Student Name | Willcox, Adam |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | awillcox@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Giuliano | | Research | Wildlife stakeholder acceptance capacities and conservation behavior of cattle producers | | Interests | Social sciences, wildlife and agricultural systems, Africa |
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| Student Name | Willcox, Emma |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | ewillcox@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Giuliano | | Research | Wildlife and habitat response to prescribed burning, roller chopping, and grazing in Florida Rangelands | | Interests | Wildlife-habitat relationships, habitat improvement |
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| Student Name | Williams, Natalie |  | | Degree | MS | | Email Address | natalie.williams@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Carthy | | Research | Marine Turtle Ecology | | Interests | Conservation biology, population ecology, and human dimensions |
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| Student Name | Zapata-Rios, Galo |  | | Degree | PhD | | Email Address | galo@ufl.edu | | Advisor | Branch | | Research | Responses of mammalian carnivores to human disturbance in the northern Ecuadorian Andes | | Interests | Ecology and conservation of neotropical mammals, wildlife management |
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