Lab Members


Jeremy Alder
PhD Candidate
Disease Dynamics in sympatric White Tailed and Mule Deer

 

Maddie Lucas
PhD Candidate
Applying AI to animal movement 


Nelson Mwangi
PhD Candidate
Drivers of elephant space use in a changing landscape


Sara Hathaway
MSc Candidate
Allostatic load and disease status in sympatric White Tailed and Mule Deer


Sandy Oduor

PhD Candidate University of Nairobi (Co-Advised)
Endocrinology of African elephants in response to landscape differences in ecology and management 


Adele Reinking
PhD Candidate
Using novel, dynamic snow modeling to reveal bioenergetic mechanisms linking seasonal resource use and fitness


Jesse Turner

PhD Candidate
Development and application of animal borne acoustic sensors

Post Docs


Tom Yamashita
Postdoc
Applying human mobility data to understand wildlife – recreation interactions


Adam Parlin
Postdoc
Wildlife biophysiological monitoring


Kristen Denninger-Snyder
Postdoc
Mitigating human-elephant conflict

Lab Alum


Heather Abernathy
Postdoc
Quantifying Recreational Impacts on Wildlife


Jemima Scrase 2025
PhD Candidate University of Sussex (Co-Advised)
Leadership and decision making in African elephants

Kelly Russo
MSc 2025
Impacts of scavengers on Chronic Wasting Disease spread


Aung Chan

PhD 2023
Landscape conservation in Myanmar for Asian elephants


Nathan Hahn

PhD 2022
Applications of animal movement to conservation challenges

 

Mickey Pardo
Postdoc
Experimental evaluation of elephant communication


Jenna Parker

Postdoc
The elephant microbiome


Rachel Buxton

Postdoc
Identification and analysis of anthropogenic noise in protected areas

 

Mark Ditmer
Postdoc
Wildlife spatial modeling


Guillaume Bastille-Rousseau

Postdoc
Landscape planning for African elephant conservation

 

Shifra Goldenberg
PhD 2016 and Postdoc 2017
Social and spatial behavior of orphan African elephants

 

Nate Kleist
Postdoc
Investigation of the impacts of anthropogenic noise on natural systems


Patrick Lendrum
PhD 2018
Carnivore community distribution in an energy development field

 

Joseph Northrup
PhD 2015 and Postdoc 2016
Energy development impacts on mule deer spatial ecology

Anni Yang
Postdoc
Modeling the interaction between disease and spatial processes