Congratulations to the following Ecology graduate students who received the inaugural awards in 2025 from the Crawford Wildlife Habitat Scholarship program. 

  • Omotayo Ajao, Masters in Biological Science. “Understanding and Managing Invasive Plants to Protect Wildlife Habitats.” 
  • Claire Bresnan, Doctorate in Ecology and Environmental Science. “The collective movement and behavior of plains bison (Bison bison) in northcentral Montana.” 
  • Caralie Brewer, Doctorate in Fish and Wildlife Biology. “Increasing our understanding of the northern long-eared Myotis along the edge of its distribution.” 
  • Michelle Briggs (Walsh), Doctorate in Fish and Wildlife Biology. “Conservation of Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake: Assessing tributary use, genomics, and population dynamics to develop contemporary conservation benchmarks.” 
  • Oscar Dalling, Masters in Fish and Wildlife Management. “Using camera traps to estimate grizzly bear density without the need for individual identification.” 
  • Anna Freudlich, Doctorate in Ecology and Environmental Science. “Studying the avian, pollinator, and vegetation community response to Indaziflam application in sagebrush habitat of the Charles M. Russell Wildlife Refuge.” 
  • Anne Kusler, Doctorate in Fish and Wildlife Biology. “Running on Empty: demography and space use of the African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) in a prey-depleted Miombo ecosystem.” 
  • Victoria (Tori) Ogolin, Masters in Fish and Wildlife Management. “Feeding Ecology of Juvenile Pallid Sturgeon in the Missouri River Above Fort Peck Reservoir, Montana.” 
  • Stacy Schmidt, Masters in Biological Science. “Emerging Impacts of Crayfish Plague in Montana: Pathophysiological and Thermal Drivers of Disease Expression and Survival.” 
  • Jayden Skelly, Masters in Biological Science. “Pronghorn Winter Habitat Selection and Movement.” 
  • Daan Smit, Masters in Fish and Wildlife Management. “Space Use of Spotted Hyenas in Zambia.” 
  • Benjamin Weber, Masters in Fish and Wildlife Management. “Assessing the success of a translocation of bull trout in Glacier National Park.”