2025 Crawford Wildlife Habitat Graduate Student Scholarship Recipients
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.”