Current Openings

Position Description:  The Waterfowl and Wetland Bird Lab (http://www.bartballardlab.com) of the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Kingsville invites applications from highly motivated individuals to pursue a PhD degree within our collaborative lab.

The student will work directly with state waterfowl biologists…

Position Description:  We are recruiting one Ph.D. student to conduct research in South Texas to evaluate the effects of guineagrass, an invasive bunchgrass on Northern Bobwhite ecology during the breeding season via a mechanistic approach. Specifically, we aim to assess the effects of guineagrass on the breeding success (e.g., clutch size, hatching success, brood survival) of bobwhite, and on the potential mechanisms underscoring such changes including (1) food availability, (2) predation risk, and…

Position Description: We are recruiting one M.S. student and one Ph.D. student to conduct research which aims to investigate movement, resource selection, and breeding ecology of White-winged Doves (Zenaida asiatica) across urban-rural gradients in Texas. Here, White-winged Doves currently breed in ~200 counties versus <10 in 1980 and only 16% of the white-winged dove breeding population in Texas occurs in the traditional breeding sites in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Outside of the historic range, white-winged…

Position description: The Spatial and Population Ecology of Carnivores (SPEC) Lab at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M – Kingsville, in partnership with the East Foundation, is pleased to announce two M.S. opportunities to assess bobcat (Lynx rufus) and coyote (Canis latrans) spatial and foraging ecology within an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) pre-reintroduction landscape. South Texas is home to the last two remaining ocelot populations in the United States, and a…