UWEC CERCA 2025

UWEC CERCA 2025

JS

Jennifer Smith

University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

Biology

My Faculty Mentor Sessions

11:00am CDT

Poster 057: Who’s making all that noise? Individuality in California ground squirrels Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Victoria Carlsten • Sayaka Michizuki • Lucy Todd • Maia Ziaee • Jennifer Smith Poster 058: Age and sex structure on parasite prevalence in the California ground squirrels Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Morgan Aldana • Joey Ingbretson • Mackenzie Miner • Mari Podas • Jennifer Smith • Nicolas Wheeler

1:30pm CDT

Effects of anthropogenic activity on stress physiology and its consequences for habitat selection Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Joey Ingbretson • Maddie Mueller • Ella Oestreicher • Caitlin Patrick • Jada Wahl • Ellie Williamson • Chelsea A. Ortiz-Jimenez • Jennifer Smith • Sonja Wild

2:00pm CDT

Poster 005: Space use contributed to the emergence of carnivorous squirrels in a vole boom year Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Joey Ingbretson • Mackenzie Miner • Ella Oestreicher • Mari Podas • Tia Ravara • Lupin Teles • Jada Wahl • Jennifer Smith • Lucy Todd • Sonja Wild Poster 006: Behaviors associated with novel hunting of voles by California ground squirrels Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Joey Ingbretson • Mackenzie Miner • Ella Oestreicher • Mari Podas • Tia Ravara • Jada Wahl • Jennifer Smith • Lupin M.L. Teles • Sonja Wild Poster 007: Blugold Beaver Cam: Novel insights into the nocturnal lives of an ecosystem engineer Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Ben Adams • Megan Jones • Maddie Mueller • Ella Oestreicher • Tia Ravara • Jennifer Smith Poster 021: Novel predatory and carnivorous behaviors of California ground squirrels independent of the age and sex of hunters Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Joey Ingbretson • Jennifer Smith Poster 022: A chromosome-level genome for a keystone ecosystem engineer and textbook mammalian study species, the California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) Davies Center: Ojibwe Ballroom (330)Jada Wahl • Jennifer Smith

1:00pm CDT

Vole hunting: novel predatory and carnivorous behavior by California ground squirrels Davies Center: Ho-Chunk Room (320E)Joey Ingbretson • Mackenzie Miner • Ella Oestreicher • Tia Ravara • Jada Wahl • Jennifer Smith