{"id":1018,"date":"2026-02-03T22:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:29:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:29:49","slug":"congratulations-to-sara-murray-m-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/2026\/02\/03\/congratulations-to-sara-murray-m-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Sara Murray, M.S.!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2026\/02\/Murray.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"277\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2518\/files\/2026\/02\/Murray.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1019\" style=\"width:291px;height:auto\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many congratulations to Sara Murray, who successfully defended her Master&#8217;s thesis, entitled &#8220;Counting sheep: comparing camera-based mark-resight to fecal DNA mark-recapture for estimating desert bighorn sheep abundance&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read her thesis here: <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.library.oregonstate.edu\/concern\/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations\/q811kt75g\">https:\/\/ir.library.oregonstate.edu\/concern\/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations\/q811kt75g<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations, Sara! All the best in your future endeavors!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many congratulations to Sara Murray, who successfully defended her Master&#8217;s thesis, entitled &#8220;Counting sheep: comparing camera-based mark-resight to fecal DNA mark-recapture for estimating desert bighorn sheep abundance&#8221;. 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.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/2026\/02\/03\/congratulations-to-sara-murray-m-s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/epps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}