{"id":233,"date":"2018-06-01T22:25:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T22:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/?page_id=233"},"modified":"2022-10-27T22:25:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T22:25:34","slug":"robert-spaan-ph-d-student","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/people\/lab-members\/robert-spaan-ph-d-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Spaan, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/files\/2017\/06\/Spaan_EwewithLab_25May16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-170 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/files\/2017\/06\/Spaan_EwewithLab_25May16-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2017\/06\/Spaan_EwewithLab_25May16-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2017\/06\/Spaan_EwewithLab_25May16-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2017\/06\/Spaan_EwewithLab_25May16-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2017\/06\/Spaan_EwewithLab_25May16-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/files\/2015\/12\/Rob.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/files\/2015\/12\/Rob.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally from South Africa, I did my undergraduate degree at Tshwane University of Technology.\u00a0 My work experiences have been mainly in the conservation services\/law enforcement fields with government agencies, private and non-profit organizations in national parks and private reserves in Mozambique and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>I joined the Epps Lab as a Masters student in September 2012 to study\u00a0dispersal characteristics of African buffalo (<em>Syncerus caffer<\/em>) in Kruger National Park.\u00a0 Having completed my M.S. in 2016, I enrolled in a Ph.D. program, researching spatial ecology, demography, and immunology of bighorn sheep (<em>Ovis canadensis<\/em>) in southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Rob successfully defended his dissertation in September 2022.\u00a0 Congratulations, Dr. Spaan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally from South Africa, I did my undergraduate degree at Tshwane University of Technology.\u00a0 My work experiences have been mainly in the conservation services\/law enforcement fields with government agencies, private and non-profit organizations in national parks and private reserves in Mozambique and South Africa. I joined the Epps Lab as a Masters student in September&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/people\/lab-members\/robert-spaan-ph-d-student\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8251,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-233","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/233\/revisions\/905"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}