Meet Our Graduate Students

While the pandemic closed some doors, NRT master’s student Alexis Chavez found it opened others.   1/27/2021
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After eons of landing on the legs and arms of humans and animals, ticks have landed smack-dab in the middle of the research interests of NRT master’s student Dominic Cristiano.  1/8/2021
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In any language, 2020 has been a rough year for bats. The only mammal capable of true flight saw its already-spotty reputation dragged through more mud as conjecture, then early research, suggested that SARS-CoV-2 may have evolved from a coronavirus ancestor dwelling in some bat species.  1/7/2021
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A recently published study led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Natural Resources PhD candidate Mikaela Cherry found that winter precipitation reloads most of the state’s groundwater supply.   5/20/2020
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate students recently formed the Council of Resilience Education to equip the public with information and strategies for tackling harmful environmental changes through education resources, including games.  2/13/2020
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Alexa Davis, graduate student with the School of Natural Resources, is testing whether living, floating treatment wetlands can survive a Nebraska winter. If they do, it could have long-term, positive implications for Midwestern states trying to reduce nutrient runoff. Continue reading…   1/16/2020
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To many people, the spooky sight of a bat flying across a moonlit sky is a sign of Halloween.  10/31/2019
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Ian Hoppe, an SNR grad student, is a finalist in a crowdfunding competition at Experiment.com through July 3 for his project researching bird behavior and their exposure to parasites. If he earns the most financial backers by June 24, he'll get a $1,000 boost from the Wildlife Disease Association.   6/12/2019
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Meet Katharine Hogan, a doctoral student studying plant community ecology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln  5/9/2019
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If you’re one of the 4.1 million guests to drive through Yellowstone National Park this year, you may just hear a familiar voice on the radio. Kelly Willemssens, of SNR, is featured in a podcast airing about one of the park’s tiniest and most valuable creatures: the wetsalts tiger beetle.   3/12/2019
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Nebraska’s National Research Traineeship director Craig Allen and the research of NRT student Daniel Rico figured prominently in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s annual research report. The program is based at the School of Natural Resources.   12/4/2018
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They said the Thompson Ridge wildfire was a good fire. A dead aspen, black and brown sheaves of bark sloughing off in the droughty summer, fell into a power line and ignited.  11/14/2018
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Starting in November 2018, National Drought Mitigation Center graduate research assistant Tony Mucia will be looking at remote-sensing data from a new vantage point on Earth.   11/7/2018
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He carries with him rancid chicken necks, a bottle of fox urine and a jar of gland lure, so it’s best to stay upwind of Kyle Dougherty  5/29/2018
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Drone imagery was used to monitor changes in stream geomorphology over time. This research project investigated processes responsible for hydraulic conductivity transience in sandy rivers.  1/1/2018
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Assembled fiber-optic distributed temperature sensor (FO-DTS) on Gudmundsen Sandhills Research Laboratory. FO-DTS is a technique that uses fiber-optic cable deployed on a streambed to sense groundwater discharge into surface water.  1/1/2018
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