Dr. William "Bill" Severud, Principal InvestigatorMy aim is to conduct research that informs land and wildlife management. I address questions related to large mammal ecology, especially involving population dynamics, predator-prey interactions, and wildlife health.
I teach courses in wildlife management, large mammal ecology, tribal fish and wildlife management, wildlife disease, and population dynamics in the Natural Resource Management Department at South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
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Erica Lafferty, MS studentErica is a graduate of Oglala Lakota College where she began researching heavy metal contamination in soils, plants, and bison hair and dung on Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. She has expanded that project into a graduate project involving more bison tissue types and reservations with support from South Dakota Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).
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Michele Lovara, MS studentMichele works for Working Dogs for Conservation, where she is a Canine Field Specialist. She has worked with dogs on many projects, including a project that she has turned into her MS research: using dogs to detect Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae in domestic and bighorn sheep.
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Anna Weesies, MS studentAnna is a graduate of Michigan State University and works as a conservation dog handler for Find It! Detection Dogs. Anna's project is examining moose calf and white-tailed deer fawn survival and cause-specific mortality in Grand Portage Indian Reservation in northeastern Minnesota.
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Sean Ryder, MS studentSean is a lifelong resident of Wyoming, where he worked for both environmental consulting firms and the state on a variety of wildlife-related projects. His MS research will focus on Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae infections in bighorn sheep in Badlands National Park.
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