Many congratulations to Lindsay Millward and Dave Pearce, for being recognized by the Oregon Chapter of The Wildlife Society.

Lindsay was awarded the 2026 Advanced Graduate Student Scholarship, while Dave was chosen for the 2026 Outstanding New Graduate Student Scholarship.

These scholarships “recognize students who show strong potential to contribute to the field of wildlife science or management through research, education, outreach, or applied work”.

Lindsay Millward

Dave Pearce

Many congratulations to Sara Murray, who successfully defended her Master’s thesis, entitled “Counting sheep: comparing camera-based mark-resight to fecal DNA mark-recapture for estimating desert bighorn sheep abundance”.

For her thesis, Sara reviewed an astounding 92,000 remotely captured photos to identify individual bighorn. She also collected hundreds of bighorn sheep fecal samples in sweltering desert temperatures.

Read her thesis here: https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/q811kt75g

Congratulations, Sara! All the best in your future endeavors!

Congratulations to Dr. Christina Aiello, who was chosen as one of only three Conway Science Fellows for 2019! Christina and Clint will work to better understand the threats facing a desert bighorn sheep metapopulation in California, and develop ways to facilitate collaboration across federal and state agencies to preserve this iconic species.

See the links below for more information.

Explore Nature Facebook Post

Explore Nature Twitter Post

Explore Nature Instagram Post

National Park Service Article

Bumble bee; photo by Dr Jim Rivers

In collaboration with researchers from the OSU College of Forestry, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, and the Oregon Department of Agriculture, the Epps Lab is making its first foray into invertebrate genetics!

Read more about the quest to better understand the role of native forest-dwelling insects in the pollination of agricultural crops here.