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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.

Justin Dawsey

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. 


Hannah Girgente

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.

Joe Girgente

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). 

Sean Sutor

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.

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