Thesis Topic: Using citizen science volunteers to monitor mountain goats and pikas in Glacier National Park.

Thesis Topic: Small dams: evaluating effects on the fish community and developing conceptual guidelines to assess removal.

Thesis Topic: Tests of food limitation in tropical bird life history strategies.

Thesis Topic: Evaluation of habitat models for small mammals in Montana at multiple scales.

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Thesis Topic: Occurrence of heart rot pathogens in (Larix occidentalis) without obvious defects.

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Thesis Topic: The effects of fire and pinyon pine encroachment on Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep. I'm working in collaboration with the California Department of Fish and Game.

Thesis Topic: Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atracapillus), gall flies, and spotted knapweed.

Thesis Topic: The influence of demographic and population habitat analysis on landscape planning as a management strategy for the common loon in Montana.

Thesis Topic: Ecology, behavior, and movement patterns of black bears (Ursus americanus) in relation to the urban interface in the Rattlesnake valley of Missoula MT.

Thesis Topic: Wildlife management in Pakistan.

Thesis Topic: Status and distribution of porcupines in western Montana.

Thesis Topic: Population estimation techniques for black bears in Idaho.

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Thesis Topic: Characteristics of cougar dispersal in the Greater Yellowstone area.

Thesis Topic: Wildlife management in Pakistan.

Thesis Topic: Proximate mechanisms driving incubation period length and their consequences in passerine birds.

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Thesis Topic: Relative parental investment of bi-parental incubation in tropical species.

Thesis Topic: Habitat selection, home range size, and movements of feral pigs on Fort Benning, Georgia.

Thesis Topic: Habitat use, movements, and survival of Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in the Milk River Basin of northesarstern Montanan and southwestern Saskatchewan.

Thesis Topic: Wildlife management in Pakistan.

Thesis Topic: Population regulation and harvest: what can we learn from black bears?

Thesis Topic: Evolution of brooding behavior and development of endothermy in altricial birds.

Thesis Topic: Comparison of natural and anthropogenic habitat fragmentation impacts on spatial genetic structure of snowshoe hares.

Thesis Topic: Population genetics and hybridization dynamics of trout (Oncorhynhus sp.) in the Jocko River Basin, Montana.

Thesis Topic: Predation, herbivory, and the biological control of tansy ragwort in northwest Montana.

Thesis Topic: Wolf-Caribou Dynamics in the Canadian Rockies.

Thesis Topic: Conservation planning for greater sage-grouse (Centrocerus urophasianus) in response to coal-bed natural gas development in the Powder River Basin: linking habitat and survival data in a GIS framework.

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Thesis Topic: Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Recovery.

Thesis Topic: Wolf recolonization in the Western Alps: effects of habitat loss and fragmentation.

Thesis Topic: Demography and landscape ecology of the Columbia spotted frog (rana luteiventris) in western Montana.

Thesis Topic: The impact of beaver recolonization on terrestrial/aquatic ecosystems.

Thesis Topic: Population dynamics and ecology of the Columbia spotted frog (Rana luteiventris) in western Montana: inference from long-term demography.

Thesis Topic: Conservation of threatened Philippine flying-foxes through effective monitoring and prioritization.

Thesis Topic: Chemical communication, behavioral ecology, and ranging behavior of African wild dogs in Botswana's Okavango Delta.

Thesis Topic: The indirect effects of large herbivores on populations and ecosystems. I am generally interested in food web ecology and indirect effects and specifically in the indirect effects of large herbivores on small mammal populations and ecosystem processes. I work in Coconino National Forest in Northern Arizona in aspen and maple dominated riparian snow-melt drainages.

Thesis Topic: West Nile virus dynamics in avian reservoirs (M-EID).

Thesis Topic: Energetics and stress physiology during life history transitions in Laysan Albatross." I'm interested in the roles body condition and stress hormones play in regulating parental investment decisions (during incubation and chick provisioning) and in the transition to independence (fledging) in chicks.

Thesis Topic: Investigating the application of trail surveys in long-term monitoring of the Grizzly Bear (Ursula arctos) population in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem.

Thesis Topic: Genetic substructure in the Sierra Nevada population of the Pacific Fisher (Martes pennanti).

Thesis Topic: Greater sage-grouse population responses to coal-bed natural gas development and West Nile virus in the Powder River Basin, U.S.A.

Thesis Topic: Developing a conservation radar for Bhutan: testing spatial distribution of biodiversity richness using predator-prey assemblages to build a monitoring system that addresses threats.

Thesis Topic: The Effects Of Selective Logging On Malayan Sun Bears (Helarctos malayanus) And Bearded Pigs (Sus barbatus) In Lowland Tropical Rainforests Of Borneo.

Thesis Topic: Population structure and dispersal of black-backed woodpeckers, a disturbance-dependent species.

Thesis Topic: Ecological restoration of bison in central Montana