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Leadership Team | Faculty | Students and Postdoctoral Researchers | Alumni | Partners

CHCC LEADERSHIP TEAM

CHCC FACULTY

Larissa Bailey

Professor, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

Joel Berger

Barbara Cox Anthony University Chair in Wildlife Conservation, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

Sara Bombaci

Assistant Professor, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

Dana Hoag

Professor, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics

Rick Knight

Professor, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources

Barry Noon

Professor, Department Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

Jon Salerno

Assistant Professor, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources

Courtney Schultz

Associate Professor, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship

Tara Teel

Professor, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources

George Wittemyer

Professor, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

CHCC STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Martha Bierut

PhD Student, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology

Projects: Human-elephant conflict issues in western Uganda, and environmental stewardship volunteer retention throughout the United States, advised by Dr. Jon Salerno and Dr. Rebecca Niemiec.

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

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

Cassandre Venumière--Lefebvre

PhD Student, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, advised by Dr. Kevin Crooks and Dr. Stewawrt Breck.

Project: Understanding tolerance of humans towards carnivores, focused on human-bear coexistence

Mark Ditmer

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, advised by Dr. Kevin Crooks and Dr. George Wittemyer

Project: Spatial modelling of carnivore habitat suitability and conflict hotspots

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

Richard Berl

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, advised by Dr. Rebecca Niemiec

Projects: Facilitating organizational systems change in state wildlife agencies; Understanding and predicting social attitudes toward wildlife nationally and toward wolf reintroduction in Colorado; Application of computational and machine learning methods to natural resource science