{"id":24,"date":"2015-10-18T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-06-30T15:53:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:53:24","slug":"former-lab-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/merrill\/former-lab-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lab Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Memories-page-001\"<\/a>
\n2023<\/strong>
\nQin Xu (RA) 2023
\nPhil Walker<\/a> (PhD) 2023
\nSummer spatial ecology of woodland caribou across northern Ontario
\n2022<\/strong>
\nJohn Pattison-Williams (RA) 2022
\nLaurens Put (RA) 2020-2022
\nMaddie Trottier<\/a> (MSc) 2022
\nDisparity in conspecific interaction and vigilance behaviour in a partially-migratory elk herd (Cervus canadensis) on a sympatric winter range
\nMaria Dobbin<\/a> (MSc) 2022
\nImplications of direct contacts between mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) on transmission of chronic wasting disease
\nKelsey Gritter<\/a> (MSc) 2022
\nIndividual-based movement model of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) contacts and application to artificial attractants
\n2020<\/strong>
\nJohanna Thalmann<\/a> (RA) 2018-2020
\nPeter Smolko<\/a> (PDF) 2018-2020
\nKelly Mulligan<\/a> (MSc) 2020
\n2019<\/strong>
\nJacky Normandeau<\/a> (MSc) 2019
\nLinking partial migration to endo- and ectoparasite infection of collared and uncollared elk
\nMitch Flowers<\/a> (MSc) 2019
\nJodi Berg<\/a> (PhD) 2019
\nKara MacAulay<\/a> (MSc) 2019
\n2018<\/strong>
\nEric Spilker<\/a> (MSc) 2018
\n2016<\/strong>
\nShantel Sparkes<\/a> (MSc) 2016
\nElk carrying capacity since the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption
\n2014<\/strong>
\nKerri Krawchuk<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2014
\nIs niche separation between wolves and cougars realized in the Rocky Mountains?
\n2013<\/strong>
\nPeter Smolko\u00a0(PhD) 2013
\nFire-habitat relationships of Cervus elaphus<\/em>
\nAndrew Geary<\/a> (MSc) 2013
\nSuccession, herbicides, forage nutrition and elk body condition at Mount St. Helens, Washington
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Environmental consultant
\nBarry Nobert<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2013
\nLandscape ecology of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus<\/em>) and white-tailed deer (o. virginianus<\/em>) with implications for chronic wasting disease
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>ABMI technician
\n2012<\/strong>
\nAlexei Potopov (RA) 2009- 2012
\nEpidemiological modeling of deer of CWD
\nCurrent position:<\/em> Senior Research Associate, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta
\nLindsay Glines<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2011
\nWoody plant encroachment into grasslands within the Red Deer River drainage, Alberta
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Biologist, MWH Canada
\n2011<\/strong>
\nPeter Knamiller<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2011
\nSeasonal wolf predation in a multi-prey system in west-central Alberta
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Carnivore Specialist – Yukon Government
\n2010<\/strong>
\nTom Habib<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2010
\nEcology and management of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus<\/em>) and mule deer (O. hemionus<\/em>) of east-central Alberta in relation to chronic wasting disease
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Research Coordinator, ABMI
\nDarcy Visscher<\/a>\u00a0(PhD) 2010
\nTrade-offs between risk and reward at multiple scales: a state-dependent approach
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Assistant Professor of Biology, King’s University
\n2009<\/strong>
\nBarry Robinson<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2009
\nForaging-predator avoidance trade-offs made by migrant and resident elk (Cervus elaphus<\/em>) on their sympatric winter range
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Ecologist Team Leader, Elk Island National Park
\nHeather McPhee<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2009
\nKill site selection and attack rates of wolves in heterogeneous environments in west central Alberta
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Environmental Assessment Scientist, Parks Canada
\nErin Rees (PDF) 2009
\nModeling CWD spread in SK and AB
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Adjunct Professor, University of Prince Edward Island
\nNathan Webb<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(PhD) 2009
\nDensity, demography, functional response of wolf population in central Alberta, Canada
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Special Projects Coordinator, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife
\n2008<\/strong>
\nPhilip De Witt<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2008
\nUngulate guild dynamics: Mechanisms and consequences for aspen-parklands
\nCurrent position:<\/em>\u00a0Wildlife Ecologist at Matrix Solutions Inc.
\n2007<\/strong>
\nMaria Didkowsky<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2007
\nScales of forage selection by ungulates in Aspen Parkland
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Wildlife Biologist at Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
\nHannah McKenzie<\/a> (MSc) 2007
\nWolf movement responses to on linear features
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Quantitative Wildlife Biologist, Alberta Environment and Parks
\n2006<\/strong>
\nMark Hebblewhite<\/a>\u00a0(PhD) 2006
\nLinking predation risk and forage to ungulate population dynamics
\nCurrent position: <\/em>Associate Professor, University of Montana, Missoula
\n2005<\/strong>
\nJacqui Frair<\/a>\u00a0(PhD) 2005
\nSurvival and movement behaviour of resident and translocated wapiti (Cervus elaphus<\/em>): Implications of their management in west-central Alberta, Canada
\nCurrent position: <\/em>Associate Professor at SUNY ESF & Associate Director of the ESF Roosevelt Wildlife Station
\n2004<\/strong>
\nJames Allen<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2004
\nUse of sightability models and resource selection functions to enhance aerial population surveys of elk (Cervus elaphus<\/em>) in Alberta
\nCurrent position: <\/em>Head Biologist, Game and Priority Species, SRD
\n2003<\/strong>
\nStephen Hamilton<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2003
\nEstimating winter carrying capacity for bison in Wood Buffalo National Park
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>PhD Candidate, University of Alberta
\nMegan Watters<\/a> (MSc) 2003
\nThe effects of grazing by large herbivores on carbon and nitrogen dynamics in montane grasslands of Jasper National Park
\nCurrent position: <\/em>Environmental consultant, Edmonton, AB.
\nLeslie McInenly<\/a>\u00a0(MSc) 2003
\nSeasonal effects of defoliation on montane rough fescue (Festuca campestris<\/em> Rydb.)
\nCurrent position: <\/em>Minnesota Department Conservation
\nDaniel Fortin (PDF) 2003
\nForaging ecology of elk
\nCurrent position:\u00a0<\/em>Biology Professor,\u00a0Universit\u00e9 Laval<\/p>\n

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