Current Students

Mikayla House, M.S. Student; Hometown – Helotes, TX; Thesis: Developing a spatial-temporal model to estimate availability of foraging habitat for shorebirds in the Laguna Madre, Texas
David Newstead, PhD Student; Hometown – Corpus Christi, TX; Dissertation: Population connectivity in two subspecies of the red knot
Mattti Bradshaw, M.S. Student; Hometown – Richmond, TX; Thesis: Habitat selection of female northern pintails in the Prairie Pothole Region
Georgina Eccles, PhD Student; Hometown – Accrington, Lancashire, United Kingdom; Dissertation: Comparing spring migration strategies of northern pintails across North America
Jason Loghry, M.S. Student; Hometown – Rockport, TX; Thesis: Migration ecology of shorebirds through the Laguna Madre, Texas
Tara Rodkey, M.S. Student; Hometown – Phoenix, AZ; Thesis: Habitat selection by buff-breasted sandpipers through the Coastal Plain of Texas

Contact Information

Bart M. Ballard
Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
(361) 593-3954
bart.ballard@tamuk.edu