My Story
Rhys Medcalfe is a Master’s student on the Wild Turkey Project at the AWESM Lab. He grew up hunting and fishing in the backwoods of Georgia, which grew into a passion for the outdoors, and particularly game species. Rhys attended the University of Georgia (BSFR 2023) where he gained a multitude of experiences from tracking box turtles saved from the illegal pet trade to banding ducks in Louisiana and finally collaring carnivores in Namibia. He also worked on a research project to determine the occupancy of bats across Georgia. He then worked as a technician at the Savannah River Ecology Lab trapping wild pigs. Rhys’s MS research will focus on the spatial ecology and survival of wild turkeys in western Nebraska.
Rhys is also a part of the Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit.