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Students in the Christensen lab were recognized with several awards at the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife 2026 Student Awards Banquet. PhD student Mike Shaw received the Hal and Jean Glassen Conservation Medicine Fellowship and was awarded the Graduate Student Excellence Award! Undergraduate Arlo Nietling received a Glassen Undergraduate Fellowship, undergraduate Regan McQueen received a Merrill "Pete" Petoskey Undergraduate Scholarship, and undergraduate Meredith Kroupa received a Glassen Undergraduate Fellowship and a Peter I. Tack Undergraduate Scholarship. Congratulations! April 2026.
Sam Kneibel (left) and Ann Joseph (right) each presented a research poster at the 2026 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF). ​April 2026.
The lab makes their second annual trip to Indiana to set up camera traps for an ongoing study. After a long day of fieldwork, we went to see the sandhill crane migration. ​November 2025.
The much-cherished end-of-semester waffle party! ​December 2025.
Radio telemetry training at Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center (CMERC). ​November 2025.
Recording weight (left, middle) and body/hoof measurements (right) from white-tailed deer fawns at the Corey Marsh Ecological Research Center (CMERC). ​May 2025.
Fitting a fawn with a radio collar (left). Dr. Christensen prepared to release a fawn (middle). A newly collared fawn goes back to doing what they do best at this age -- nothing. ​May 2025.
The team gets excited about our newest tool for locating fawns: a drone, piloted here by Gabby Nielsen! May 2025.
Rachel Correia presents the findings of her impressive research during her Master's thesis defense. Congratulations, Rachel! ​April 2025.
Makayla Dernberger and Cooper Krueger shared their research findings at the 2025 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF). ​ ​April 2025.
This is not a desk job! Lead radiotracker Makayla Dernberger, assisted by postdoc Olivia Spagnuolo, go looking for a dropped radio collar in the snow and, after lots of digging through snow, emerge successful! ​February 2025.
The lab's first annual field trip to Indiana to assist graduate student Mike Shaw and technician Katie King with setting up camera traps. November 2024.