• Bal-chatri traps: Raptor traps. The trap we use to collect red-tailed hawks.

• Seining: Various  lakes, rivers, and streams to make species lists, track species abundances, and grow our ability  to identify some fish species out in the field.  

• Mist netting: A Wildlife Diversity Project Manager at Nebraska Game and Parks, showed us how to put up a mist net across a creek to capture bats. Acknowledging key  characteristics along the way to decipher the bat species we caught.

• Drift fences & pitfall traps: Collected various reptiles, amphibians, insects, and some  surprise small mammals. Had to strategically depict where the trap should be dug out and placed. 

• Sherman traps: Small mammal traps. 

• Miscellaneous traps: Ranging from turtle - camera traps. 

• Clipping: Collecting and identifying plant biomass in the sandhills. 

• Daubenmire frame: Determining vegetative cover data. 

• Digital Obstruction: An accurate vegetative biomass measurement. 

• Prairie Project: Working alongside the PP has allowed me to not only gain a ton of knowledge about grasslands and management practices, but it gave me an inside look of how important collaboration is and it's functions. 

• SRM: Society for Range Management conference allowed me the chance to gather around hundreds of other scientists within my field, sharing research and stories that only cultivated m desire to keep learning about the intercut dimensions of range ecology. 

• USDA Webinar Series: Cohosting a USDA career webinar series aimed to informing undergraduates possible career paths and opportunities. I took grasp of creating a website to home the recorded presentations for students to have access to them at their own time. 

• AHGSA peer and mentorship: I was an extra source of support for a new Agronomy student. I was in place to provide guidance, advice, and feedback to your mentee. I helped students connect with their new community in a holistic manner by providing academic, social, and emotional support. 

• Coaching the URME team: No better way to learn than to teach. I go the opportunity to help teach the undergraduate (Undergraduate Range Meeting Exam) URME team as we headed to national SRM in Spokane, Washington. 

• Professional Writing and Extension Creation: This allowed me to use critical thinking and craftsmanship to create a product that accurately disseminates knowledge to the appropriate audience. 

Grassland Focus:

AGRO 842 WILDLAND PLANTS  

NRES 838 GRASSLAND CONSERVATION

AGRO 840 GREAT PLAINS ECOSYSTEM 

AGRO 896 RANGELAND IMPORVEMENTS

AGRO 896 GRASSLAND ECOLOGY

AGRO 844 ECOSYS MONITORING & ASSESSMENT

AGRO 860 SOIL MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Education & Communication:

ALEC 805 ADV TCHNG STRATEGIES

NRES 829 HUMN DIMENS OF NAT RES

PSYC 250 Human Growth and Development

PSYC 121 Introduction to Psychology

SOC 300 Contemporary Social Problems

SPCH 152 Fundamentals of Speech

PSYC 305 Social Psychology

PSYC 345 Psychology of Personality

PSYC 320 Cognitive Psychology  

PSYC 450 Abnormal Psychology

PSYC 380 Adolescent Psychology 

Biology: 

NRES 889 ICHTHYOLOGY 

BIOL 130 General Biology

BIOL 101 Introductory Botany

BIOL 102 Introductory Zoology

BIOL 311 Evolution and Systematic Biology 

BIOL 404 Genetics 

BIOL 426 Vertebrate Diversity

CHEM 101 General Chemistry I 

BIOL 301 Microbiology

BIOL 317 Ecology 

CHEM 102 General Chemistry II 

BIOL 414 Internship in Wildlife Management 

BIOL 340 Virology

BIOL 355 Wildlife Techniques 

ESCI 240 Introduction to Meteorology and Climatology 

BIOL 330 Cellular Biology 

BIOL 350 Conservation and Management

BIOL 420 Comparative Anatomy and Evolution of Vertebrates