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Lab Personnel
Lab Personnel
Megan Milligan, PhD
Megan Milligan, PhD
Megan is a quantitative ecologist whose research focuses on habitat ecology, movement ecology, and population dynamics. Her research combines field data with quantitative models to support science-based decision making. Megan started at the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in 2025 as an Assistant Unit Leader - Wildlife. She is involved in basic and applied research in a variety of ecosystems across Alaska and the western United States. Learn more about Megan's background and mentoring philosophy.
Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Our lab is growing and we are looking for individuals from diverse backgrounds to join our research team. If you're interested in joining the lab, please reach out!
Riley Marcus
Riley is studying the influence of wintering location on annual productivity of emperor geese in collaboration with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
Arrow Myers
Arrow is researching the demographic responses of spectacled eiders, a threatened sea duck, to changing oceanic and habitat conditions on their breeding grounds along the Bering Sea coast of western Alaska.
Hannah Vincelette (co-advised with Shawn Crimmins)
Hannah's project focuses on the Lesser Yellowlegs, a long-distance migrant in the Western Hemisphere. Her research aims to identify critical habitat featuers in the Prairie Pothole region and assess how future land-use and landcover changes could affect their use of the landscape.
Miles Spathelf (co-advised with Shawn Crimmins)
Miles is exploring movement behavior and movement ecology of moose and caribou in collaboration with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
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Christie Osburn (co-advised with Shawn Crimmins)
Christie is studying the spatial and population ecology of ungulates in northwestern Alaska in collaboration with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
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