Bastian Thomsen
Assistant Professor, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
CHCC STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Martha Bierut
PhD Student, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology
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Cassiopeia Camara
PhD student, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, advised by Dr. Rebecca Niemiec
Project: Analysis of outreach and messaging strategies regarding wolf reintroduction in Colorado.
Andie Conlon
MS student, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, advised by Dr. Jon Salerno.
Project: The role of community-based conservation in promoting human-carnivore coexistence in East Africa
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Mireille Gonzalez
PhD student, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, advised by Dr. Rebecca Niemiec
Project: Public and stakeholder attitudes towards wolf conservation and potential reintroduction in Colorado
Tom Hilton
PhD student, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, advised by Dr. Jon Salerno
Project: Systems impacts of human-wildlife interactions - modeling multilevel economies from households to nation states
Matt Hyde
PhD student, Graduate Degree Program Ecology, advised by Dr. Stewart Breck and Dr. Kevin Crooks
Project: Conflict prevention between ranchers and predators in the Rocky Mountain West
Monica Lasky
M.S. Student, Graduate Degree Program of Ecology, advised by Dr. Sara Bombaci
Project: How human presence alters carnivore-prey interactions in South African food webs.
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Tamara Layden
M.S. Student, Graduate Degree Program of Ecology, advised by Dr. Sara Bombaci
Project: The role of community-based land stewardship in shaping carnivore conservation in the tropics of Guatemala
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Kelly Russo
MS Student, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, advised by Dr. George Wittemyer.
Project: Impacts of scavengers on Chronic Wasting Disease spread
Cassandre Venumière--Lefebvre
PhD Student, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, advised by Dr. Kevin Crooks and Dr. Stewart Breck.
Project: Understanding tolerance of humans towards carnivores, focused on human-bear coexistence
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Erin Weingarten
PhD Student, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, advised by Dr. George Wittemyer.
Project: Incorporating behavioral observations and machine learning to mitigate human-elephant conflict in Kenya.
Ben Ghasemi
Postdoctoral Fellow and CHCC Project Manager, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, advised by Dr. Rebecca Niemiec.
Project: Conservation social science and human-carnivore coexistence in the Western U.S.
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CHCC ALUMNI
Matt Collins
MA student, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, advised by Dr. Rebecca Niemiec
Project: Cultural, interpersonal, and incentive-based factors that motivate ranchers to employ preventative and non-lethal predator control
Brielle Manzolillo
PhD student, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, advised by Dr. Courtney Schultz
Project: Political challenges and pathways for success in Colorado wolf reintroduction
Rae Nickerson
MS Student, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, advised by Drs. Stewart Breck and Dr. Paul Evangelista
Project: Identifying the psycho-social and socioecological factors influencing landowner reporting behavior of wolf-livestock depredations, and exploring the connections between depredation reporting and compensation policies
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Richard Berl
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, advised by Dr. Rebecca Niemiec
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Mark Ditmer
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, advised by Dr. Kevin Crooks and Dr. George Wittemyer
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