The Conway Science Fellowship in landscape scale was awarded to the team of Christina Aiello, a postdoctoral scholar, and Clint Epps, an associate professor, both in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife in the College of Agricultural Sciences.
They will use the fellowship to combine traditional and modern survey techniques to understand how desert bighorn sheep populations are connected throughout their fragmented habitat.
“The resulting tools and data will be provided to the National Park Service and other land/wildlife managers in order to facilitate cooperative management of bighorn herds and actions that help combat threats faced by this charismatic species,” Aiello said.