Conservation and Coexistence Research Group

Our Team

Principal Investigator

Principal Investigator
Neil Carter
PI of Conservation & Coexistence Group, Associate Professor
Human-wildlife coexistence Carnivore conservation Coupled human and natural systems Landscape ecology Global change biology

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

PhD Students

Masters Students

Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Nathan Fox - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - 2024
University of Michigan
Deqiang Ma - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - 2024
University of Michigan
Kirby Mills - PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - 2023, Post Doctoral Research Fellow - 2025
University of Michigan - Apex predators in the Anthropocene: African large carnivore ecology at the human-wildlife interface
Martin Leclerc - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - 2023
University of Michigan
Leandra Merz - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - 2023
University of Michigan
Evan Wilson - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - 2023
University of Michigan
Mark Ditmer - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - 2020
Boise State University
Rose Graves - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - 2018
Boise State University
Michael Poulos - Postdoctoral Research Fellow - 2017
Boise State University

PhD Students

Tara Easter - PhD in Resource Ecology & Management - 2023
Social and policy dimensions of freshwater turtle trade in the US
Alexander Killion - PhD in Resource Ecology & Management - 2021
Coexisting with wildlife in shared landscapes: an interdisciplinary assessment to inform conservation

Masters Students

Yuting Pu - MSc Student in Environment and Sustainability - 2026
Helping monitor environmental change and create visual tools that make climate and ecosystem data more accessible to the community Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies (CACS) in Homer, Alaska
Lisa Vaiman - MSc Student in Environment and Sustainability - 2026
Reforming Michigan's Stance on Bats
Vatsal Parikh - MSc Student in Environment and Sustainability - 2025
Modeling conflicts with leopards, rhesus macaques, and bears against a landscape of agrarian transitions in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Adrienne Calistri-Yeh - MSc Student in Environment and Sustainability - 2024
Impact of human activity on large mammal spatial ecology in Homer, Alaska
Carly Thompson - MSc Student in Environment and Sustainability - 2024
The human-wildlife interface: a case study of bobcat & coyote conflict in California
Fang Chen - MSc Student in Environment and Sustainability - 2024
Impact of injuries caused by snare traps on the space use of endangered Asiatic black bears in Taiwan
Ella Hartshorn - MSc Student in Environment and Sustainability - 2023
A critical assessment of conservation outcomes in indigenous peoples’ lands and protected areas
Madeline Standen - MSc Student in Environment and Sustainability - 2023
When and where will I find my next meal?: Quantifying the effects of spatiotemporal forage predictability on ungulate movement behaviors in two disparate ecosystems
Rachel Darling - MSc Student in Ecosystem Science and Management - 2022
Assessing the relationship between anthropogenic night light, noise, and avian provisioning of ecosystem services
Ethan Hiltner - MSc Student in Geospatial Data Science - 2022
Changing snow conditions and shifts in American Marten (Martes americana) occurrence in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Kaitlyn Frank - MS in Geospatial Data Science - 2022
Landscape predictors of mule deer road crossing behavior in the American Southwest
Edward Leal Trout - MS in Biology (Boise State) - 2021
Corridors for coexistence: evaluating spatiotemporal impacts of livestock on wildlife community dynamics
Natalie Madden - MS in Conservation Ecology - 2020
How traits affect bird responses to anthropogenic noise - a meta-analysis
Abigail Sage - MS in Biology (Boise State) - 2019
​Integrating social dimensions into spatial connectivity planning for grizzly bears