Graduate Students

Amy Bridges

Independent Research Student

Amy is a junior EEB major  who is doing an independent research project testing a long held but never tested hypothesis about the evolution of sexual size monomorphism in lemurs.

 

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Margie Diddams

Honors Research Student

Margie is an EEB/PoliSci double major conducting her self-designed honors research on the impacts of climate variability on the growth of native vs invasive trees in Arizona, Texas, and Wyoming.

 

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Angelina Tran

Honors Research Student with Houston Zoo Consortium

Angelina is studying the relationship between dominance hierarchies and helping behaviors in Demaraland mole rats.

 

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Undergraduate Students

Onja Razafindratsima

Onja did her DEA and undergraduate work at the University of Antananarivo in Madagascar. Her research interests include: lemur ecology, behavior and conservation, impacts of human activities and climate change on lemur populations, seed dispersal/ plant-animal interactions, and cost-effectiveness of conservation strategies

 

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Brian Maitner

Brian received his BS in Zoology at Michigan State University. His research interests focus on the influence of conspecific attraction on bird community assembly and sensitivity to fragmentation in tropical forests.

 

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Michael Puente

Honors Research Student with Houston Zoo Consortium

Michael is using population viability analysis techniques to determine the effectiveness of reintroduction programs for management and recovery of the Houston Toad, and endangered local amphibian.

 

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