John Edwards
Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Ph.D. Research Associate, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
Habitat, Weather, and Raptors as factors in the Northern Bobwhite and Scaled Quail declines.
I am currently starting my fifth year of my doctoral dissertation project at Texas A&M University – Kingsville, planning to graduate in May 2018. I grew up in Whitehouse, TX and Chickasha, OK. I received a B.S. in Environmental Science from Oklahoma State University and a M.S. in Natural Resources Management from Sul Ross State University. My dissertation project is a multi-faceted investigation into the causes of the bobwhite and scaled quail declines across multiple scales. This involves analyzing long-term quail count databases such as the Breeding Bird Survey and Christmas Bird Count, and habitat and weather databases such as the National Land Cover Database and PRISM climate data. I have also collected data from the field through vegetation surveys as well as helicopter surveys for bobwhites in both the Rolling Plains and South Texas.
