Current Graduate Students (as of Spring 2010)
Emily Blackman (M.S. Student) - Agricultural wintering habitat as alimiting factor for woodcock in the Southeast: thirty years of agroecosystem change. (Co-advisor –Drs. Nils Peterson and Chris Moorman)
Shannon Bowling (M.S. Student) - Multi-scale factors that influence northern bobwhite and songbird use of CP33 borders. (Co-advisor – Dr. Chris Moorman)
Colter Chitwood (M.S. Student) – Population status and physiologicalcondition of white-tailed deer at Hoffman Forest, North Carolina. (Co-advisor - Dr. Richard Lancia)
Joe Folta (Ph.D. Student) – Project not determined. (Co-advisor - Dr. David Cobb)
Katherine Golden (M.S. Student) – Surveying North Carolina Non-Industrialized Private Landowner. (Co-advisor - Dr. Chris Moorman)
Sara Marschhauser. Sea turtles in eastern North Carolina. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Maria Palamar (Ph.D. Student) - Assessing movement, habitat use, disease status and control/eradication measures for feral hogs in North Carolina.
Amy Raybuck (M.S. Student) - Impacts on herpetofauna from oak regeneration forestry practices.(Co-advisor – Dr. Chris Moorman)
Aimee’ Rockhill (Ph.D. Student) – Using bobcat (Lynx rufus) as an indicator species in developing a management plan for Bull Neck Swamp Research Forest, North Carolina
Liz Rutledge (Ph.D. Student) – Assessing the movement, site preferences, and environmental and social impacts of Canada geese across an urban landscape. (Co-advisor - Dr. Chris Moorman)
Mark Sandfoss (M.S. Student) – Population modeling of feral pigs andwhite-tailed deer at Howell Woods, North Carolina. (Co-advisor - Dr. Richard Lancia)
Brandon Sherrill (M.S. Student) – Movement, habitat selection, and baseline condition of deer on Bald Head Island, North Carolina.
Melissa Turner (M.S. Student) - Life history and genetics of white-tailed deer in Chesapeake Farms, Maryland. (Co-advisor – Dr. Richard Lancia)
Cody Burnett (M.S. Student) - Peace Corps. (Co-advisor - Dr. Erin Sills)
Kimberly Porter (M.S. Student) - Deer and feral pig management on the Currituck Outer Banks.
Recent Graduate Students
Brinkman, T. J. Mortality of white-tailed deer in southwest Minnesota. Co-advised with Dr. Jonathan A. Jenks, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota. Graduated 2003. Currently, a Post Doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Artic Biology, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
Swanson, C. C. Movement and association of white-tailed deer in southwest Minnesota. Co-advised with Dr. Jonathan A. Jenks, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota. Graduated 2005.
Stan Hutchens - (M.S. Student) - Inventory and assessment of the herpetofauna of Bull Neck Swamp, Washington County, North Carolina. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Graduated 2008.
Gabe Karns (M.S. Student) – Movement, activity, and habitat use of adult male white-tailed deer related to hunting pressure and breeding season at Chesapeake Farms, Maryland. Co-advised with Dr. Richard A. Lancia, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Graduated 2008. Pursuing a Ph.D. at Auburn University.
Chris Ayers (M.S. Student) – Effects of different mowing regimes on the efficacy of Anthraquinone (FlightControl Plus TM) as a Canada Goose repellent. Co-advised with Dr. Christopher E. Moorman, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. Graduated 2009. Pursuing a Ph.D. at Mississippi State University.
