Graduate Students
Doctoral Students
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James Adeyemi | Spring '24
Multispecies identification of biological indicators to predict carcass and meat quality
Advisors: Jane Ann Boles
Jennifer Thomson
james.adeyemi@student.montana.edu
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Matthew Conrad
Effects of bisphosphonate use on endocrine biomarkers in growing horses
Advisor: Amanda Bradbery
mbatmconrad@gmail.com
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Thomas Hamilton
Assessing mid and late gestation cattle grazing dormant rangeland during the winter
months
Advisor: Timothy DelCurto
thomas.hamilton2@montana.edu
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Robert Haynam | Summer '23
The movement ecology and demography of female sage-grouse in NE Montana
Advisor: Lance McNew
robert.haynam@montana.edu
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Liz Leipold | Summer '23
Developing and evaluating a population monitoring method for dusky grouse in Montana,
including developing habitat models and appropriate field and analytical methods for
monitoring dusky grouse populations
Advisor: Lance McNew
elizabeth.leipold@montana.edu
Master's Students
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Taylor Bayne | Fall '23
Evaluating an AI-enabled camera trap and its potential application for wildlife-livestock
conflict prevention
Advisors: Jared Beaver
Jeff Mosley
taylorbayne1@montana.edu
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Macy Collins | Spring '24
Characterizing the wool microbiome and its influence on wool and lamb production
Advisor: Chris Posbergh
mcollins74539@gmail.com
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Amanda Grube | Fall '24
Assessing sulfur fertilizations as a means to improve statewide forage quality and
value by reducing nitrate accumulations in cereal forages
Advisor: Hayes Goosey
amanda.grube@student.montana.edu
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Herlin Kadriu | Spring '23
Development of bovine intestinal organoid models to study immune modulation by gut
microbes
Advisor: Carl Yeoman
kadriu266@gmail.com
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Autumn Keller | Fall '25
Aspen and wolf trophic cascade on the northern Yellowstone elk winter range
Advisors: Clayton Marlow and Dan Tyers
autumn.keller@student.montana.edu
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Janessa Kluth | Spring '24
Comparing the botanical composition and quality of beef cattle diets on unburned and/or
burned rangeland
Advisor: Timothy DelCurto
janessa.kluth@student.montana.edu
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Nicholas Lowing | Summer '23
Capturing snowmelt to increase plant production and livestock grazing in high elevation
sagebrush rangelands
Advisor: Bok Sowell
nalowing@gmail.com
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Danielle Mee | Fall '24
Collecting data and analyzing human impact within the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
that will then be compared to grizzly bear distribution
Advisors: Clayton Marlow, Dan Tyers, Craig Olwert
danielle.mee83@gmail.com
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Aaron O'Harra | Spring '23
The response of greater sage grouse nests and nest predators to fence modifications
made in the Centennial Valley of Montana
Advisor: Bok Sowell
aaron.oharra@student.montana.edu
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Jeremiah Peterson | Spring '24
Evaluating the influence of protein status on intake, ruminal digestion, thermal regulation
and metobolic rates in beef cattle consuming low-quality forages
Advisor: Timothy DelCurto
petersonjeremiah7@gmail.com
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Laura Robison | Spring '23
Assessing the effects of small sagebrush meadow restoration structures on improving
wildlife habitat in Southwest Montana
Advisor: Bok Sowell
lrobison7@gmail.com
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Nathan Schaff | Spring '23
The use of blood metabolites to predict flavor profiles in sheep
Advisors: Jennifer Thomson, Jane Ann Boles
nathan.schaff@montana.edu
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Daniel Schaub | Spring '23
Relationships of feed efficiency, intake, growth estimated breeding values and microbial
populations in range sheep
Advisor: Chris Posbergh
daniel.schaub2@student.montana.edu
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Hunter Stier | Summer '23
Investigating the utility of ecological sites and soil properties for management of
greater sage-grouse habitat and the validity of commonly used field-based soil sampling
protocols
Advisor: Lance McNew
hunter.stier@montana.edu
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Aubrey Sullivan | Fall '24
Ecology of reintroduced sharp-tailed grouse in Western Montana
Advisor: Lance McNew
aubrey.sullivan@student.montana.edu
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Franci Welter | Spring '23
Examining how under nutrition in gestating ewes affects the behavior, function and
formation of trophblast binucleate cells and the expression of pregnancy associated
glycoproteins
Advisor: Sarah McCoski
franciw05@gmail.com
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Abigail Zezeski | Spring '25
Evaluating preimplantation embryo development using flow cytometry
Advisor: Sarah McCoski
abbyz2012@gmail.com