Current lab members

Julie Brockman

PhD Candidate, EECB

Julie Brockman is a PhD student in the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology Graduate Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Julie received a Master of Forestry in the Cooperative Wildlife Research Lab at Southern Illinois University where she researched bison habitat selection at a restored prairie preserve. Her current research focuses on raven ecology and management, specifically in relation to anthropogenic subsidies. Her broader research interests include movement ecology, resource selection, and habitat conservation.

Madeleine Lohman

PhD Candidate, EECB

Maddie Lohman is a Ph.D. student in the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology program at the University of Nevada, Reno. While completing their undergraduate degree at UNR, they worked for Dr. James Sedinger’s long-term black brant project researching resource shifts, tri-trophic interactions, and life-history strategies and their effects on population dynamics. Maddie's current research focuses on spatio-temporal variation in the population dynamics of waterfowl, particularly as it relates to environmental conditions. Her research interests include life-history trade-offs

Corina Mathews-Sanchez

PhD Student, EECB

Corina Mathews-Sanchez is a Ph.D. student in the Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology program at the University of Nevada, Reno. Corina received her M.S. in Biology at Idaho State University where she was part of Dr. David Delehanty’s ornithology and animal behavior lab. For Corina’s M.S. work, she collaborated with Dr. Peter Coates and the U.S. Geological Survey to research common raven and greater sage-grouse conservation management methods. Her current research examines how grazing management and weather patterns affect sage-grouse demography. This research is part of a larger interdisciplinary project that incorporates rural community sociology, natural resource economists, wildlife and rangeland ecologists. Corina’s broader interests include avian ecology, quantitative ecology, and Integrated Population Models.

James Golden

MS Student, NRES

James Golden is a Master’s student in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. His research involves looking at meadow health and associated effects on the population dynamics of sage-grouse populations in northwestern Nevada. James obtained his B. S. in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at UNR. His research interests include resource selection, population dynamics, and habitat restoration.

Morgan Byrne

MS Student, NRES

Morgan Byrne is a Master’s student in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at the University of Nevada, Reno looking at demographic data to analyze survival in wood duck populations in Nevada in relation to methylmercury loading. She received a B. S. in Biology from Gonzaga University where she studied wood duck eggs for use as a biomonitoring tool for lead in northern Idaho. She has also worked as a biological lab technician for the U.S. Forest Service at the National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation. Her research interests include ecotoxicology, restoration of contaminated habitats, and quantitative ecology.

Jillian Schuyler

MS Student, NRES

Jillian Schuyler is a Master’s student in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research is on sea otter habitat use in relation to southeast Alaskan ecology and Native communities. Her work will be in partnership with the United States Forest Service and Southeast Alaska representatives with the aim to comprehend sea otter abundance and benthic invertebrates distribution in relation to Native communities’ harvests. After receiving her B.S. in Environmental Science and minor in Anthropology, Jillian was a silvicultural field technician with the Juneau Science Laboratory. At the end of her summer season in Alaska, Jillian became a contractor for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington DC. Then returned to Alaska to serve as an AmeriCorps VISTA for the environmental department of the Hoonah Tlingit Tribal government (Hoonah Indian Association) as an environmental scientist and communications specialist. Just before starting her graduate degree at UNR Jillian worked as a lab technician in the Freshwater mussels lab of Texas A&M assisting with fieldwork and experiments with endangered freshwater mussels native to Texas. Her research interests include climate change effects on ecology and frontline communities, natural resource management, habitat restoration, and marine conservation.

Zoe Mason

Research Assistant

Zoe Mason is a senior undergraduate student studying Wildlife Ecology and Conservation and Mathematics at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research, in collaboration with Madeleine Lohman, investigates the spatial and temporal distribution of mallard band recoveries from birds banded in the Mississippi flyway. Her research interests include spatio-temporal population dynamics, plant ecophysiology and quantitative plant ecology.