Principal Investigator

Chris Schalk
Assistant Professor of Forest Wildlife Management
PhD. 2016 - Texas A&M University

Email: schalkc [at] sfasu [dot] edu

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ResearchGate
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​ATCOFA Webpage

Undergraduate Students

Sarah Ebert
Biology

Sarah is currently working on a TPWD funded project examining snake entanglement in erosion control mesh netting. Results from this project will be used to develop best practices that minimize threats of erosion control materials on wildlife. 

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Hailey Hester
Forest Wildlife Management

For her Honors project, Hailey is describing the advertisement calls for the frogs that occur the Gran Chaco ecoregion in Bolivia. While calls of these species have been described from other localities, there are currently no descriptions of the frogs from the Bolivian Chaco. She will compare her findings to past descriptions to examine if there is any geographic variation in call structure in these species. 

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Nick Schiwitz
Forest Wildlife Management

​Nick is currently working on a project examining the activity rate and predation risk tradeoff in larval anurans. He is specifically looking at how larval anurans alter their activity level and habitat use in the presence of cues from odonate predators. The objective of this work is to better understand the how interspecific variation in activity rate corresponds to distributions of different species along the hydroperiod gradient. 

Collaborators

Mike Cove - Department of Applied Ecology, North Carolina State University

Lee Fitzgerald - Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University

Dan Leavitt - Arizona Game and Fish Department

Tom Luhring - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska

Carmen Montaña - Department of Biological Sciences, Sam Houston State University

Dan Saenz - Southern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service

Ronald Sosa - Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado, Santa Cruz, Bolivia