People

Current


Sean P. Maher
Associate Professor
Director, Bull Shoals Field Station
spmaher[at] missouristate.edu
Orcid ID
Research Gate
Daniel Garten
Graduate Student
Kieran Payne
Graduate Student
Mammal inventory using camera traps

Past Members

Graduate Students



Sofia Orlando (2023) – Small mammal community structure and bait preference in Missouri prairie patches.
Currently a Science Educator in St. Louis



Morgan Rodery (2021) – Occupancy of small mammals in Missouri’s fragmented prairies.

Currently working in NY State


Adkins		Casey Adkins (2019) – The assessment of predictor variables for hard tick abundance in Southwestern Missouri.

Currently a PhD student at University of Nevada, Reno.  Research Gate


channel cat		Lee Sickler (2018) – Long-term trends of stream fish community assemblages in southern Missouri with contemporary land use impacts.

Currently a PhD student at University of Alabama. Research Gate


Beasley
Emily Beasley (2017) – Island biogeography of small mammals and associated ectoparasites in the Ozark Glades.

Currently a postdoctoral researcher at University of Montreal. Website


1454		Stephanie Ellison (2017) – Habitat associations with small mammal communities at Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield.

Currently with ESI as a consultant.

Cheyenne Gerdes (2016) – Gray bat migration in Missouri. (technically Cheyenne was Lynn Robbin’s student, but she hung out with us, too).

Currently a PhD student at Purdue University. Research Gate.


Tyler Remick – Small mammals and ectoparasites

Undergraduate Students

  • Emilyn Gilmore (2021-2023) – Landscape ecology of prairies… MS student at University of Oklahoma
  • Paige Harman (2018-2021) – Blarina distribution in Missouri; Chipmunk distributions; last known whereabouts… MS student at New Mexico State.
  • McKenzie Harlan (2020) – Georeferencing Sigmodon hispidus.
  • Angel Smith (2019) – Neotoma distribution and range overlap; last known wherabouts… MS student at Minnesota-Duluth
  • Victoria Starnes (2017) – Distribution of the Texas mouse; last known whereabouts… Completed her MS at Mississippi State.
  • Kyle Doherty (2016) – Distance modeling of White-tailed Deer; last known whereabouts… working in industry.
  • Kristina Beckham (2015) – Distributions of Antelope Ground Squirrels; last known whereabouts… Research assistant
  • Ben Spitz (2015) – Distribution of Franklin’s Ground Squirrel; last known whereabouts… PhD student at Univ. of Northern British Columbia