{"id":518,"date":"2020-02-21T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/?page_id=518"},"modified":"2025-10-02T22:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:51:27","slug":"paige-prentice-m-s-student","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/paige-prentice-m-s-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Prentice, Ph.D. candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2020\/02\/Prentice-petroglyph.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-519\" width=\"383\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2020\/02\/Prentice-petroglyph.jpg 775w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2020\/02\/Prentice-petroglyph-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2020\/02\/Prentice-petroglyph-768x687.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I earned a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a B.A. in Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz. From 2015-2022 I worked as a wildlife biologist for the California Department of Fish &amp; Wildlife, monitoring and managing desert bighorn sheep populations in the Great Basin and Mojave Deserts. After years of collaborating with the Epps Lab and the Jolles Lab, I am now working with both to pursue a Ph.D. in Wildlife Science. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Desert bighorn sheep occupy island-like mountain ranges\nthroughout south-eastern California. At the broadest level, my interest is to\nbetter understand the factors that drive variation between populations. Collaboratively,\nwe are exploring topics and questions regarding metapopulation dynamics,\nconnectivity, genetic diversity, immunity, disease susceptibility and\npopulation performance. Specifically, my research focuses on diet quality\nvariation across ranges and the impacts of low-diet quality (high stress)\nperiods on individual, and potentially population level, performance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I earned a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a B.A. in Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz. From 2015-2022 I worked as a wildlife biologist for the California Department of Fish &amp; Wildlife, monitoring and managing desert bighorn sheep populations in the Great Basin and Mojave Deserts. After years of collaborating&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/paige-prentice-m-s-student\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8251,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-518","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/518\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}