Current members of the McIntyre Lab:
Professor
Curriculum vitae: PDF
Google Scholar profile: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RkTB68YAAAAJ
Born and raised in South Carolina, youngest of 3 children. I've been an academic gypsy, so I've lived in both Carolinas, Georgia, Colorado, Arizona, South Dakota, and Texas. I've lived in Lubbock and been faculty at TTU since 2000. I've traveled throughout the U.S. and have also been to Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, England, France, Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Scotland, and The Netherlands. You can check out my Flickr albums of photos from Kenya here (2023); Panama here (2022) and here (2021); and from Costa Rica here (2018), here (2017), and here (2015).
My interests and hobbies include birding, photography, watching sports, cooking, playing piano, and running.
M.S. student
I'm examining how land-cover change and energy production affect connectivity among breeding populations of Lesser Prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). You can find me on Instagram @justindawsey.
M.S. student
I study a rare species of dragonfly, the Calvert’s Emerald (Somatochlora calverti), and its associated odonate assemblage in the Florida panhandle region. The main objective of my thesis is to describe the nymphal habitat of the Calvert’s Emerald in hopes of highlighting specific components of its ecology that make it rare. To achieve this, my work also aims to identify the composition of other odonate taxa that co-occur with this rare species, and to compare streams in the region that do and do not support the Calvert’s Emerald at both a local and landscape scale. You can find me on Instagram @hannahwoj0.
M.S. student
My thesis is examining ecomorphological differences of Hylogomphus geminatus (Twin-striped Clubtail) along a longitudinal gradient across the Apalachicola River drainage. My background is in wildlife conservation and entomology and in my free time, I'm usually photographing bugs and posting them to my Instagram (@Joes_outdoor_adventures).
Ph.D. candidate
I am studying landscape connectivity in the international border region of the Sonoran Desert to identify areas where management efforts might be targeted to reduce anthropogenic impacts on natural and cultural resources. Most of my work combines landscape ecology and geospatial sciences. I am currently working on a landscape-scale connectivity analysis throughout the range of the Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai) and, on a more localized scale, I am using resource selection and movement analyses to examine how tortoises respond to the physical landscape as they move through it. You can follow me on Instagram @seansutor.
Graduate alumni:
Kelly Baker (M.S. 2011)
Austin Biddy (M.S. 2022) - currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Alabama-Birmingham
Sarah Candler (M.S. 2014, co-advised with Dr. Ximena Bernal)
Steve Collins (Ph.D. 2014) - currently employed with Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson, Lake Mary, FL
Erica Chipman (M.S. 2006)
Demi Gary (M.S. 2017, co-advised with Dr. Kerry Griffis-Kyle, Dept. Natural Resources Management)
Donna Hamilton (Ph.D. 2008) - currently faculty at the University of North Texas at Dallas
Lucas Heintzman (M.S. 2013, Ph.D. 2019) - currently a Research Ecologist with the USDA-ARS in Oxford, MS
Danielle Husband (M.S. 2022) - currently employed with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in East Wenatchee, WA
Ashley Kempken (M.A. 2023, co-advised with Dr. Stance Hurst, Heritage and Museum Sciences) - currently Collections Manager of Birds at the Delaware Museum of Nature & Science, Wilmington, DE
Hunter Kilborn (M.S. 2019) - currently employed with Transglobal Services, LLC
Jacy Lewis (M.S. 2003) - currently employed at Texas A&M Agrilife, Viticulture and Sustainable Fruit Lab, Fredericksburg, TX
Bryan Reece (Ph.D. 2009) - currently faculty at Dallas College Eastfield Campus, Dallas, TX
Scott Starr (Ph.D. 2018) - currently faculty at Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden Sydney, VA
Dorothy Tinkler (Ph.D. 2004) - currently faculty at Treasure Valley Community College, Ontario, OR
Undergraduate students:
Benjamin Breedlove, Su14
Stacey Burnham, Sp03
Caroline Claasen (NSF-PRISM Scholar), 2015-16
Kerian Clanahan, Sp17
Morgan Conn, F02
Crystal Craig (HHMI Research Fellow), 2006-07
Justin Dawsey, Sp22
Kristin Dunning, F07
Shane Glidewell, Sp15
Keegan Gossett (NSF-PRISM Scholar), 2014-15
Kyle Hernandez (HHMI Research Fellow), Su04
Kimbree Knight, 2015-16
Jennifer Long, Sp15
Lisa Longhofer, Sp02
Katie McLaughlin, Su05
Lauren McLellan (Honors College Undergraduate Research Fellow), 2008-09
Courtney Miller, Su21
Rebecca Owens (NSF-PRISM Scholar and Terry Scholar), 2013-14
Niki Parikh (NSF-PRISM Scholar), 2012-13
Zach Patton, Sp19
Harley Pruett, Sp16
Savannah Randall (Plains Bridges to the Baccalaureate Scholar), Sp21
Jim Ruiz (NSF-PRISM Scholar), 2012-13
Lucas Schilder, 2017-18
Tiffany Simon, F07
Emily Thiemann, Su05
Dan Walker (West Texas A&M), Su04